Quotes About Competence

Intelligence is a measure of how well you function within your level of awareness.

The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.

Knowledge must become capability.

Knowledge is confidence. And confidence lets you play fast.

An individual understands a concept, skill, theory, or domain of knowledge to the extent that he or she can apply it appropriately in a new situation.

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Winning or losing can be attributed to one of four factors: ability, effort

Your preoccupation should be on doing what you do as well as you can. What your co-workers say about you, what your opponent is doing -- that doesn't matter.

By the work one knows the workman.

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

We've all got our own areas of expertise.

On the other hand, when you work hard, do your job, and help others on your team, you'll make a lasting impression. People remember who was competent, who worked hard, who was fair, and who was their friend. People will remember when you came through.

No one ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job.

Merit badges are these little patches you get for learning how to do all sorts of manly stuff.

Have you noticed how difficult it is just to get along in the world? If you're no good at all in your job, people treat you badly and eventually you will be unemployed. And if you're a little better than competent, everyone expects miracles from you, every single time. Like most of life, it's a no-win situation. And if you dare to mention it, no matter how creatively you phrase your complaints, you are shunned as a whiner.

Aside from my cockeyed internal compass, I also have a shortage of personal coolness, which can be a liability in travel. I have never learned how to arrange my face into that blank expression of competent invisibility that is so useful when traveling in dangerous, foreign places. You know - that super-relaxed, totally-in-charge expression which makes you look like you belong there, anywhere, everywhere, even in the middle of riot in Jakarta.

knows you're beyond yeoman level in your knowledge

The Governor of New York State does not have to be an acrobat.

Value of each man depends upon the art and skill which he has attained.

It's hard upon occasions to be forceful and sublime When you're treated as incompetents three-quarters of the time.

I am capable. I am capable. I am capable.

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise----as priests, prophets or philosophers are wise. Specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.