Quotes About Competence

you are, and you are very very gifted at all the aspects of the business I don't care to deal with, and you

I'm a grown woman, and I can fend for myself. Now help me put on my pants.

You know how it is when a tricky job is going well because you're doing things the way they should be done, when you're working in rhythm and feel a reassuring confidence that everything's unraveling naturally and all will be right in the end. That's about it: I know what I was doing -- it's really what being a professional means.

If you don't exercise a talent, you get rusty

Of course, sir. There won't be any screwups. Hell, Colonel, there are always screwups in any operation. Let's just keep them within reason.

Being an "expert" in anything means doing the basics exceptionally well, so Reece started with the fundamentals

sure you know what you're doing?

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.

Success, prosperity, well-being happens because you have made yourself capable of creating those things.

Many troops were far more proficient in PowerPoint than they were with firearms, so

A good approach to something requires enough resources to handle the demands of that activity.

The 2008 financial crisis reinforced this trend by causing many citizens to doubt the competence of their leaders and to question the fairness of systems that seem to protect the wealthy at the expense of everyone else.

When you allow your child to palm off responsibility you encourage the idea that someone else is responsible both for the problem and for fixing it. This attitude is bound to make your child less competent and therefore lower his self-esteem. Even when others have a hand in your child's distress, which will happen, teach your child to take responsibility for his own life.

A man's deepest fear is that he is not good enough or that he is incompetent. He compensates for this fear by focusing on increasing his power and competence. Success, achievement, and efficiency are foremost in his life ... A man appears most uncaring when he is afraid.

A man's sense of self is defined through his ability to achieve results.

My excellence confused them

The oldest problem in economic education is how to exclude the incompetent. A certain glib mastery of verbiage-the ability to speak portentously and sententiously about the relation of money supply to the price level-is easy for the unlearned and may even be aided by a mildly enfeebled intellect. The requirement that there be ability to master difficult models, including ones for which mathematical competence is required, is a highly useful screening device.

Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery. DAVE BARRY

people on average prefer to bet on their own judgment over an equally probable chance event when they consider themselves competent about the event being judged.

It is the intelligent and highly educated that agonize over their limitations.

Very few can be trusted with an education.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing

By passing your GCSEs you prove that you're not an idiot… But by passing your A levels you prove that you're smart

Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.