Quotes About Competence

Mediocrist (n.) A person of mediocre talents. Nobody wants to be mediocre, but someone has to be. In fact, by definition, most people are. Microphily

What one fool can do, another can.

I'm not sure why anyone on the face of the planet would want to use a bow and arrow. I mean, it seems like a fairly limited field of expertise and usefulness. Unless your name is Katniss.

By no means did such views come entirely from conservative or right-wing circles, which have long regarded the American military as soft and incompetent. People from the Green and Social Democratic milieus—where German pacifism is chiefly at home today—also displayed this contempt for the courage and ability of American GIs, thereby indirectly demonstrating how deeply Germans feel the resentment of things American.

remedial work needed? It often is. In my introductory political science classes, I encounter far too many students who cannot write coherently. I would like to think this is being remedied in composition courses, since without that competence they can't do college-level work. But it's quite another thing to say that all undergraduates need advanced algebra to proceed toward their degrees.

The weird thing about acting is you're the most competent when you're at your best, but you have to be validated.

As my father taught me, and he drove home that point, he said, 'Just remember something. You don't need to tell anybody how good you are. You show them how good you are.' And he drove that home with me. So I learned early not to brag about how good I was or what I could do but let my game take that away and show them that I could play well enough.

My dad always taught me to let the clubs talk. So if people don't know who I am, I guess I'm just not playing well enough.

Whether it's fight off my front foot, fight off my back foot, pick shots off, roll shots off, potshot, put combinations together, I feel like I'm a pretty well-rounded fighter. Whatever the situation calls for, I feel like I have the tools on my belt to bring it out.

I'm a better, well-rounded fighter than people think.

I think the smart teams are chasing those well-rounded players, making that well-rounded lineup, having that well-rounded team.

Employee loyalty begins with employer loyalty. Your employees should know that if they do the job they were hired to do with a reasonable amount of competence and efficiency, you will support them.

If I am going to be phased out by whatever powers, then I want people to know that it is not because I am bad at my work.

I have a lack of practical skills. I can't mend anything or do anything manly; I don't understand how anything works.

I can practice all I want, but if I don't have the right equipment for my kind of game it's not going to mean very much.

Some guys practice like all-Americans but they can't play!

My cousin cleaned out a shotgun for me and let me carry it around the house, because he said, 'Anybody who knows anything about guns is going to know in a second if someone has held a gun before.' I didn't want to be that person. I wanted to be practiced.

I do not know if we play the most beautiful or attractive football, but we certainly play more intelligently, more functionally and more precisely than anyone else.

The thing that people associate with expertise, authoritativeness, kind of with a capital 'A,' don't correlate very well with who's actually good at making predictions.

I'm far from immune to the American, perhaps historically male, prejudice toward practical and physical competence; I hope I've also considered that prejudice enough to have some distance from it.

I'm used to playing in the Premier League now. I'm confident, and all my team-mates are confident with me.

You don't manage more than 900 games, mostly in the top half of the Premier League, if you haven't got something that enables you to cope with pressure.

I don't agree that there are big teams and small teams in the Premier League. There are just a lot of good teams.

Obviously there are questions when anyone comes up to the Premier League about whether they can cope.