Quotes About Competence

A lot of people have problems with public confrontation, but it doesn't worry me at all. I can handle myself. I know my martial arts.

If magistrates had true justice, and if physicians had the true art of healing, they would have no occasion for square caps; the majesty of these sciences would itself be venerable enough.

Being a head designer or art director or just even a designer, you need a certain level of experience and maturity.

Knowing when you're not good at something and knowing when you are good at something is an art-form.

Quality is my principle and qualified is my attitude.

In America, Qualification is simply an attitude. I've adopted it. So, yes. I am qualified.

In hospitals I feel palpable comfort. I feel the competence, the expertise, so much education and money, all of the supplies sterile, everything packaged, sealed tight. My fears evaporate when the automatic doors shush open.

Los vientos y las olas siempre favorecen a los navegantes más hábiles. —EDWARD GIBBON

Some forms of socialism and collectivism are – explicitly or implicitly – based on the notion that many people are not competent to make decisions about their own lives, so that the more talented should make decisions for them. But that would mean there were no universal human rights, only rights that some have and others do not, denying the essential humanity of those who are deemed to be owned.

La mayor diferencia entre los ejecutivos exitosos y los que fracasaron era la inteligencia emocional (Fernández-Aráoz, 2001).

to be skillful in domestic duties was surely one of the most charming of woman's qualities.

Fit to govern? No, not fit to live.

It is not a question of one General being better than another, but of one General being better than two.

high standards of experience, of official routine, and of method, which are the qualifications of the Civil Service.

If you wish to be thought a good estate manager, or a good horseman, or a good physician, or a good flute player without really being one, just imagine all the tricks you have to invent just to keep up appearances. You might succeed at first, but in the end you're going to be exposed as an impostor.

Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task   I

Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch

Those who do not know themselves and are totally deceived about their own abilities are in the same position whether they are dealing with other people or any other aspect of human affairs.

And therefore, a Man who should neglect to render himself capable of such an employment, and yet pretend to it, ought to be severely punished.

Having given up the effort to raise the general level of competence—the old meaning of democracy—we are content to institutionalize competence in the caring class, which arrogates to itself the job of looking out for everybody else. Populism, as I understand it, is unambiguously committed to the

The art of the hero wasn't about being brave; it was about being so competent that bravery wasn't an issue.

Over time, a subtle cancer spread: where you have more experts, you create more bystanders. Professionals did all the fighting and fixing we used to handle ourselves; they even took over our fun, playing our sports while we sat back and watched.

where you have more experts, you create more bystanders. Professionals

a runner or a boxer who doesn't know how to swim, or cannot climb, is not strong in a complete manner.