Quotes About Competence

What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.

The Supreme Court is very capable of acting quickly when it needs to.

Putin was very careful to gradually sort of rotate people in and out of power, to make sure that he had competent bureaucrats by his side at all times, to keep the machine running.

Everybody knows I'm not a clay-court specialist. I'm not feeling so well on this surface.

It would be difficult to pick out one shot as my main strength, as I like all my shots, and I can do anything on any surface.

Winning matches on any surface will definitely give you a much larger element of trust in what you're doing.

I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the least part of the work.

You cannot drive the car if you do not have a driver's license. You cannot do brain surgery if you are not a brain surgeon. You cannot even do a massage if you don't have a license.

Most people are overconfident about their own abilities. That is probably a good thing. But we would be horrified if a physician's aide engaged in heart surgery.

First of all, you want to make sure you find a doctor that is a board-certified specialist in whatever that field is - whatever it is - whether it's plastic surgery, facial plastic surgery, ocular plastic surgery, brain surgery, whatever it is. And two, if they do a procedure, you want to make sure they do a lot of it.

You want to ensure people can do it right 99 percent of time. When we have to fire one of our surgical trainees, it is never because they don't have the physical skills but because they don't have the moral skills - to practise and admit failure.

To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.

You can't surprise LeBron any more. He's such a smart player. His intellect has caught up with his athletic ability.

Amitabh doesn't surprise me because he has been there, done that.

When a woman is a really good driver she is just about perfect.

You can hold an important public office forever in our country with no qualifications for it but a clean nose, a photogenic face, and a close mouth. If on top of that you look good on a horse, you are unbeatable.

Pug nodded. 'What do you fear the most?' Nicholas thought a long moment. 'Of not being as good as I should be.' Pug said, 'Then you stand a chance, Nicholas.

If we don't understand our tools, then there is a danger that we will become the tool of our tools

You are as good as anybody and better than most

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It always works when you know what you're doing

There are better and worse ditch diggers and garbage collectors. People who work in industry know that no matter how apparently mindless a job is, the job can still be done better or worse, with significant economic consequences.

We can quibble about what precise percentage of performance it accounts for, but no one can seriously question that smartness—the intellectual ability to do the job—is one of the primary determinants of whether someone succeeds or fails at managerial work.

I am now satisfied of what I always though--which is how much more women can do if they set about it then men. I will lay any bet that had you been here, you would not have got half as much on board as I have.