Quotes About Competence

You have to respect your enemy. Never, ever underestimate them. The second you do, they'll squash you. Be smart about them. Respect their abilities, even if they don't respect yours.

BECAUSE I'M REALLY GOOD," Rhonda added.

She's one of two women in Homicide in San Francisco, so she probably is fairly good.

Unfortunately, I only have time to play 15 to 20 rounds a year. I'm a 6-handicap but can play to a 16, no problem.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

In every union roles are assumed, some traditional, some not. My husband used to pay his own bills, I used to call my own repairman. But as marriages progress, you surrender areas of your own competence, often without even knowing it.

The 'community method' can only be applied in those areas in which the European Union actually has competence. Where the community has no competence, the 'community method' clearly cannot be applied.

I am one of the five best parallel parkers in the United States of America. Dead serious. It's to the point now where I look back when pulling into the spot only as a formality.

Guess what - I am one of the ONLY senators in the whole United States Senate that is computer literate!

UNIX always presumes you know what you're doing. You're the human being, after all, and it is a mere operating system.

Not having to compensate for always being at a size disadvantage allows me to unleash all of my skills.

I'm very good at what I do, and I don't turn my hand to something unless I'm very good at it, frankly.

I am trained as a fashion designer and do not claim to be an expert architect or anything like that. I won't do something unless I know I can do it.

I've always maintained that black people and women suffer from a presumption of incompetence. The burdens of proof are different. It just gets so tiresome.

If we talk about pure abilities and skills, I believe there should be no reason why women cannot play as well as men.

If women were as good as men they'd be a lot better!

To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.

A child who thinks he can't do anything on his own eventually can't.

Women systematically underestimate their own abilities.

Women must convert their love for and reliance on strength and skill in others to a love for all manner of strength and skill in themselves

If you see a tennis player who looks as if he is working hard, that means he isn't very good.

What is John Arriaga's circle of competence? Is it real estate? No! Is it U.S. real estate? No! Is it California real estate? No! Northern California real estate? No! Only real estate around Stanford. His circle of competence is this small.

The Bush Cabinet is quite interesting, there are no flashy people in there. No stars. They all seem quite focused and serious and knowledgeable about the areas to which they have been appointed.

If I am ever the starter of the Denver Broncos, I want it to be because I earned it.