Quotes About Competence

Did you win your sword fight?" "Of course I won the fucking sword fight," Hiro says. "I'm the greatest sword fighter in the world." "And you wrote the software." "Yeah. That, too," Hiro says.

I'm smart but not enough--just smart enough to have problems.

Only a mediocre man is always at his best

In fact, the assumption that smartness is something you "have" had led to such nonsensical terms as over-and underachievers.

For instance, Thamus warns that the pupils of Theuth will develop an undeserved reputation for wisdom. He means to say that those who cultivate competence in the use of a new technology become an elite group that are granted undeserved authority and prestige by those who have no such competence.

I'm not some total invalid

If they didn't have money, they could serve competently for forty years and never reach that rank.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly

fundamental flaw of modern capitalism is that businesses promote bombastic people. As Cameron Anderson and Sébastien Brion of the University of California, Berkeley, showed experimentally, 'In conditions where there is any ambiguity in competence and performance (which is common in organisations), overconfident individuals will be perceived as more competent by others, and attain higher levels of status, compared to individuals with more accurate self-perceptions of competence.

When you're in the car, how well you do is down to you and you alone-no band, no management, no marketing.

Talent is putting skills into productive use.

Not knowing the right definitions is no different from not having the right tools to fix a burst water pipe.

The Audi felt like a banker's car: beautifully machined, competent but not compassionate, giving the driver a sense of admiration, but not involvement.

Here on her own turf she looked different: more whole and competent; denser somehow.

I was the one who helped, the competent one, armored and invulnerable. Aud rhymes with proud.

I looked at my hands, turned them over in the tarnished shine of streetlights seeping through a crack in the curtains. They were long; strong and competent with nicely shaped nails; hard enough for a palm strike, soft enough to trace gentle arabesques on a taut trembling stomach or along a soft inner thigh. The stains did not show.

Perhaps she wasn't as good at it as he was. He cut too deep.

What is threatening about a technological device is that it can be used by someone who lacks the intellectual capacity of the man who invented it.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

We're not quite so bumbling and hopeless as you like to think.

Self-determination theory,' he intones casually, as if the moderator had never spoken, 'states that human beings need three basic things in order to feel content. Number one, they need to feel competent at what they do. Number two, they need to feel authentic in their lives, and number three, they need to feel connected to others. Is there anyone here who feels they can check all three of those boxes?

Self-determination theory," he intones calmly, as if the moderator had never spoken, "states that human beings need three basic things in order to feel content. Number one, they need to feel competent at what they do. Number two, they need to feel authentic in their lives, and number three, they need to feel connected to others.

We thus make a fundamental distinction between the competence (the speaker-hearer's knowledge of his language) and performance (the actual use of language in concrete situations).