Quotes About Competence

emotional aptitude is a meta-ability, determining how well we can use whatever other skills we have, including raw intellect.

The single most important contribution education can make to a child's development is to help him toward a field where his talents best suit him, where he will be satisfied and competent.

There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse. It is the root of all emotional self-control, since all emotions, by their very nature, lead to one or another impulse to act. What shows up in a small way early in life blossoms into a wide range of social and emotional competences as life goes on. The capacity to impose a delay on impulse is at the root of a plethora of efforts, from staying on a diet to pursuing a medical degree.

Some people are all self-presentation, with no substance to back it up. The varieties of social intelligence are no substitute for the other kinds of expertise that a given role may call for.

The aptitudes you need to succeed start with intellectual horsepower—but people need emotional competence, too, to get the full potential of their talents.

se contrata a los directores generales por su intelecto y su pericia empresarial y se los despide por su falta de inteligencia emocional».

we have three innate psychological needs—competence, autonomy, and relatedness. When those needs are satisfied, we're motivated, productive, and happy.

"There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else."

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.

When someone reaches middle age, people he knows begin to get put in charge of things, and knowing what he knows about the people who are being put in charge of things scares the hell out of him.

I'm tired of people questioning me because of my age. If you looked at my numbers and watched me throw and covered my birthdate, would age be an issue?

Professionally, I have no age.

I think 40 is a good age to run a country. But I've always been fast.

Anger, pride and competence are our real enemies.

Our understandable wish to preserve the planet must somehow be reduced to the scale of our competence - that is to wish to preserve all of its humble house - holds and neighbourhoods.

The competence of the exploiter is in organization; that of the nurturer is in order—a human order, that is, that accommodates itself both to other order and to mystery.

As the skills of production decline, the skills of responsibility perish.

The strict competences of independence, the formal mastery, the complexities of attitude and know-how necessary to life on the farm, which have been in the making in the race of farmers since before history, all are replaced by the knowledge of some fragmentary task that may be learned by rote in a little while.

But the safe competence of human work extends no further, ever, than our ability to think and love at the same time.

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them.

I did what you would probably have done in my place. I modestly declared myself to be quite unequal to the task imposed upon me—and I privately felt, all the time, that I was quite clever enough to perform it.

Plato complains that whereas in simpler matters—like shoe-making—we think only a specially-trained person will serve our purpose, in politics we presume that every one who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state.

From whatever angle we approach our eternal political problem we monotonously reach the same conclusion: that the community should determine the ends to be pursued, but that only experts should select and apply the means; that choice should be democratically spread, but that office should be rigidly reserved for the equipped and winnowed best.