Quotes About Competence

Lincoln bore down or anything he handled, mastering both the details and the principles.

They do less well in contexts in which they are inexperienced and poorly informed, and in which feedback is slow or infrequent

A servant's too often a negligent elf; if it's business of consequence, do it yourself!

Most people today couldn't tell a bombardier from a brigadier" - said during a lecture in aid of the Army Benevolent Fund in 2009

two examiners, said simply that hardly anyone in Denmark was well enough informed on the subject to judge the candidate's work.

he'd have to improve significantly to achieve mediocrity.

You can't possibly judge your ability to control something until you've experienced the extremes of its capabilities.

Self-aware learners create exceptional performances.

You mean you can't fix it?" "I can fix anything, cher. " "That's not my name," she corrected him. And aren't you just pretty impressed with yourself, Mr. Repair Guy.

The first lesson every child of Athena learned: Mom was the best at everything, and you should never, ever suggest otherwise.

A little secret, Magnus. There is no good and evil. There's only capable and incapable. I am capable.

A good artist must be good at many things.

Magnus, it may shock you to learn that I do not have every talent in the world. Just most of the important ones.

for whether she knows anything or not, she looks as if she did, and whether she's capable of filling an office or not, she looks as if she was.

You must excel at the basic responsibilities of your job—and so you need to be certain what they are. Sure

I do love competence in a man.

for the same reason I think people enjoy watching sports: seeing someone in full command of what he is expected to do, doing it better than most would, and doing so with joy. My

There is an assumption, in attaching Puritan concepts such as succesful and unsuccesful to the awful, final act of suicide, that those who fail at killing themselves not only are weak, but incompeent incapable even of getting their dying quite right.

Who cared whether you could change motor oil when you could snap a rottweiler's neck in 2.8 seconds? Now there was a practical skill.

If initiative is the ability to do the right thing, then efficiency is the ability to do the thing right.

They did not suspect her for a moment. It did not occur to them that a woman could be dangerous. How foolish they were. Women could do most of the things men did. Who was left in charge when the men were fighting wars, or going on crusades? There were women carpenters, dyers, tanners, bakers and brewers.

To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education.

And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.