Quotes About Competence

If you can't handle providing all the courses for your dinner party, you can't handle the hosting duties of a dinner party.

Choose a man on account of his skills.

sin una organización fiable y competente, o —por usar sus términos— sin una burocracia, era imposible ejercer verdaderamente el poder.

I feel fine, I don't care who the director is. All you have to do is know what your doing - all of us - everybody in the business - that's all you ask anyone - you know your job, I know mine, let's go do it.

I am a failure in most of the things, But believe me.. in things I know I can; I am the best

It's not bragging if you can back it up.

If you don't trust someone to look after your investments, then they shouldn't be doing the job for you.

True justice consists in giving each individual what he deserves according to his abilities.

Your ability is ready to be put in practice.

You do realize she's over two thousand five hundred years old, speaks at least a hundred languages, and has such a depth of knowledge the Cadre comes to her for advice and information?" Galen had no doubt all of that was true. "I don't intend to get into an intelligence contest with her.

What I mean by this is that it is natural to want to demonstrate our competence, to show our patients that we have something to offer. This inclination can get in the way of maintaining enough reserve to let people make their own discoveries and come up with their own solutions to the problems in their lives.

I hope I'll never get ambitious enough to try anything. It's so much nicer to be damned sure I could do it better than other people - and I might not could if I tried...

No child ever has too much self-esteem. If you take every possible opportunity to point out what children do well, praise them descriptively for it and express appreciation, your child will become more cooperative, competent and confident.

When people whom trouble is not a problem find themselves in a predicament, they are woefully unprepared... I, however, considered myself a professional.

But asking a physicist to comment on smoking and cancer is like asking an Air Force captain to comment on the design of a submarine. He might know something about it; then again, he might not. In any case, he's not an expert.

An all-purpose expert is an oxymoron.

Let the path be open to talent.

Parties weaken themselves by their fear of capable men.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Pride separates excellence from mediocrity

It was her stunning blend of confidence and competence that inspired them, her indomitable will, her ability to bend a harsh landscape to her own ends, to do what needed to be done to provide for herself and her family every day, without fail.

success in any field—be it sports, the arts, business, science, and certainly the military—requires both confidence AND competence.

Confidence is that feeling that you can do something (or that you know something) so well you don't have to think about how to do it when you're doing it. That skill or knowledge is in you, it's part of you, and it will come out when needed if you let it.