Quotes About Competence

Whether in basketball or business, you must be able to perform all aspects of your job, not just part of it. You must be able to "get open" and "shoot." One without the other makes you a partial performer, someone who can be replaced because your skills are incomplete.

My father values talent. He recognizes real knowledge and skill when he finds it. He is color blind and gender neutral. He hires the best person for the job, period.

I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.

Much of the fear of doing something wrong vanishes when we are knowledgeable about what we are doing.

Those who cant usually criticize those who can.

Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living.

I'm a woman of mad competence. I'm very optimistic. l have high self-esteem. l give myself choices, and l always feel as if l belong.

Good knowledge of an art or profession is essential to be successful in life. A man with insufficient knowledge will always cause harm to himself and others.

Being trusted to cook the dinner...this should be good.

In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is a matter of miscasting.

everyone can probably do at least one thing better than ten thousand other people.

Pay no attention to the man who criticizes unless he is doing something better than what he criticizes.

The best pilots usually have the most unflattering nicknames. The pilots I know say they don't generally have much confidence in anyone with a call sign like Maverick or Viper. If you meet one named Outhouse or Dumpster Diver, however, it's a safe bet he's good to go.

A big, robust guy with blond hair and a relatively insolent grin, Shane was supersmart. I never had to tell him anything. He knew what to do at all times.

The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.

Politicians should resist the temptation to consider themselves experts in fields where they have no experience.

Needless help is an actual hindrance to the development of natural forces.

To build skills, earn trust, develop a body of work, forge relationships, gain mastery

You have to learn the difference between a man's looks, and how fine he shoots. They've never been one and the same.

It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

A good technician gets it right maybe 60% of the time. And a great technician, maybe 61% of the time.

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.

The state is not competent in artistic matters... When the state leaves us free, it will have carried out its duty.

That girl can barely spell her name.