Quotes About Competence

A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.

I feel, other than physical attributes, which can be subjective, being good at your work makes anyone desirable. Being honest and kind with fellow beings is also appealing.

I was good at most subjects at school. Looking back, I was a proper boffin! Now, the thing I'm really good at is poker.

Perhaps more than English or history, STEM subjects require an enormous amount of foundational learning before students can become competent.

I spent almost no time studying categories like geography and sports, even though they came up frequently on 'Jeopardy,' because I'm already strong in those subjects.

It's hard to prove yourself when the substance isn't there in certain roles.

I want to have a resume that is substantial enough to hold itself as respectful.

Palin's blatant lack of competence and preparedness needs no belaboring. What's critical is that substantive, serious Republican leaders either wouldn't or couldn't declare, before or after the election, 'This is not what our party stands for. We can and must do better.'

There is nothing you can substitute for reps and carries in a game.

From the time I was a student, I think I was very confident in my raw abilities. I would think that, given a problem, I was as likely to solve it as anybody. But that's not enough in science to succeed, really.

Who's more likely to succeed - someone with high skill and no ambition, or no skill and high ambition? If you're an entrepreneur, you can hire as many skilled people for your business as you want.

Personality is a skill.

A smart model is a good model.

People who are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful and feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Some psychologists call it a conflict between ego-orientation, or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation... but in all cases, what counts is whether attention is turned away from the task at hand and focused on the self and its future rewards, or whether it is instead trained on the task itself. The latter attitude seems the more fruitful.

Thus if we know a child has had sufficient opportunity to observe and acquire a behavioral sequence, and we know he is physically capable of performing the act but does not do so, then it is reasonable to assume that it is motivation which is lacking. The appropriate countermeasure then involves increasing the subjective value of the desired act relative to any competing response tendencies he might have, rather than having the model senselessly repeat an already redundant sequence of behavior.

So much technology, so little talent.

Two things you should know about me; The first is that I am deeply suspicious of people in general. It is my nature to expect the worst of them. And the second is that I am unexpectedly good with computers.

Not satisfied to just learn the ropes, he analyzed the game

What's the rush?", you said about publishing. I added: "Does the world need another competent book of poems?" Most times, we wouldn't answer our own questions because what did we know? We only knew that we couldn't scrub poetry off our bodies. And we ourselves feared the greatest death, which was writing merely competent poems.

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

My pitch is very simple. I'm Theresa May and I think I'm the best person to be prime minister of this country.

In whatever you do, strive to be the best at it.

I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.

I am the best in the world at what I do!