Quotes About Competence

If my colleague's reaction is typical, imagine how often women who think they are displaying a positive quality—connection— are misjudged by men who perceive them as revealing a lack of independence, which the men regard as synonymous with incompetence and insecurity.

the act of helping sends metamessages —that is, information about the relations among the people involved, and their attitudes toward what they are saying or doing and the people they are saying or doing it to. In other words, the message of helping says, "This is good for you." But the fact of giving help may seem to send the metamessage "I am more competent than you," and in that sense it is good for the helper.

Our professional competence and pride should rest not alone in our possession of knowledge but as well in our ability to communicate it. Of course we shall carry on our research, and of course we shall applaud the colleague who 'produces,' but we shan't be happy if he offers that as a substitute for inspiring young people with a desire for knowledge, a sense of taste, and a regard for virtue.

med ålder kommer erfarenhet och kompetens. viktigast av allt, ger det en med en tydlig vision att se genom timglaset i livet, som mer sand redan har rymt genom det med tiden. som en tidig morgon dr

My easy tip on how to become a Good Leader: Watch all the Bad Leaders around, and don't do what they do. It's as simple as that. I always do that. There are lots of bad leaders around, always, no matter where you come from, and when you are reading this. Good Leader is always a scaece commodity, and surely you can strive to be the one.....in my view, there is definitely less competition to become a Good Leader, so join the queue right away. Good Luck!

And I don't need to look clever. I am clever. The fact that I look clever is merely a bonus.

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.

I try to get rid of people who always confidently answer questions about which they don't have any real knowledge.

The stages of human development are to strive for: (1) Besitz [Possession] (2) Wissen [Knowledge] (3) Können [Ability] (4) Sein [Being].

...because knowledge rapidly deteriorates unless it is used constantly, maintaining within an organization an activity that is used only intermittently guarantees incompetence.

And the quality of good judgement is clearly a form of knowledge and skill, as it is because of knowledge and not because of ignorance that we judge well.

If you have competence, you pretty much know its boundaries already. To ask the question (of whether you are past the boundary) is to answer it.

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

Applicants must also have extensive knowledge of Unix, although they should have sufficiently good programming taste to not consider this an achievement.

If you don't realize there is always somebody who knows how to do something better than you, then you don't give proper respects for others' talents.

Epistemic competence might be posterior to knowledge conceptually, however, while still prior metaphysically.

It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.

It's this no-nonsense side of women that is pleasant to deal with. They are the real sportsmen.

In my view (animal) knowledge is apt belief, where not only the belief (its existence and content) but also its correctness is creditable to the subject's competence.

If we have a better understanding of knowledge than we do of such justification or competence, then we can explain the latter through the former.

One of the greatest satisfactions one can ever have, comes from the knowledge that he can do some one thing superlatively well.

Hillary Clinton has a vision, she has knowledge and judgment. She is a strategic thinker, based on her experience and her connection.

The ability for a person to operate satisfactorily in a thing is dependent on how much he knows about that thing. Ignorance is a major cause of inability.

The test of our knowledge is not what we know, but what we can do.