Quotes About Competence

He was playing chess and she was sucking at checkers.

people found off-putting. You could not beat her at chess or Trivial Pursuit or even Monopoly. She knew all the questions on Jeopardy. She knew when to use who or whom. She could not abide misinformation. She disdained organized religion. In social situations, she had the strange habit of spouting obscure facts.

who didn't know how to use a shotgun?

The most powerful drive in the ascent of man is his pleasure in his own skill. He loves to do what he does well. And having done it well, he loves to do it better.

Men are competent in groups that mimic the playground, incompetent in groups that mimic the family

It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.

Mediocre men sometimes fear great office, and when they do not aim at it, or when they refuse it, all that is to be concluded is that they are aware of their mediocrity.

I am constantly amazed at how little painters know about painting, writers about writing, merchants about business, manufacturers about manufacturing. Most men just drift.

Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else.

The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.

No man is competent unless he can stalk alone and armed in the wilderness.

There's an old saying. Never send a boy to do a man's job, send a lady.

The greatest thing in the world is for a man to be able to do something well, and say nothing about it.

Newspaper men, perhaps more than any other class, are rated by ability.

I'm rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.

A learned man is not learned in all things; but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.

No man is more than another unless he does more than another.

The tools belong to the man who can use them.

I'm an enormously talented man, and there's no use pretending that I'm not.

Everyone wants to vote for the best and most qualified man, but he never runs for office.

Responsibiliti es gravitate to the man who can shoulder them and the power to him who knows how

The only security a man can ever have is the ability to do a job uncommonly well.

So much one man can do that does both act and know.

I don't think of being a woman in an industry of men. I didn't walk into the kitchen and go, 'Ooh, I'm a girl!' I didn't get into my chosen profession. I wanted to be good at something.