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Quotes About Competence

A whore should be judged by the same criteria as other professionals offering services for pay — such as dentists, lawyers, hairdressers, physicians, plumbers, etc. Is she professionally competent? Does she give good measure? Is she honest with her clients? It is possible that the percentage of honest and competent whores is higher than that of plumbers and much higher than that of lawyers. And enormously higher than that of professors.
~ Robert Heinlein
At the places where I want to work, even if people do other things well (even extraordinary well) but routinely demean others, they are seen as incompetent.
~ Robert I. Sutton
The third phase is referred to as the autonomous phase. During this phase, the teacher can perform the strategy with little conscious thought and can, therefore, attend to other issues while performing the strategy.
~ Robert J. Marzano
Some people thought scars a sign of toughness. It seemed to Perrin that fewer scars meant that you knew what you were doing.
~ Robert Jordan
Moiraine had been taught to judge people's capabilities long before she left home.
~ Robert Jordan
A workman should know his tools, and not use them to breaking. The same went for people.
~ Robert Jordan
the competence of a speaker has no relevance to the truth
~ Robert M. Pirsig
Talent should not imply a need for great exertion. =
~ Robert Musil
They were wise in their own skills, but most of them seemed to think that that made them wise in everything, which did not appear to be the case.
~ Robert Silverberg
What I object to is having someone who is professionally inferior jacked into an expedition simply for the sake of racial balance.
~ Robert Silverberg
Incomparable Leadership Skills– According to Kiyosaki, the money does not really go to the companies with the best products in the market. It goes to the company with the best leaders. Always try to develop your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual capabilities in order to lead your business to its success.
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
In fact, it's pretty easy once you get the hang of it.
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
If you're ignorant, it's easy to be bullied. If you know what you're talking about, you have a fighting chance.
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
performing at the level that is essential for the company's success.
~ Larry Bossidy
I don't claim to know much: cards, fucking, and dentistry about covers it," Doc said.
~ Larry McMurtry
He had seen highly competent men stand as if paralyzed in a crisis, though once someone took command and told them what to do they might perform splendidly.
~ Larry McMurtry
There was no degree of competence that would assure anyone of survival, and no scale that would tell a commander which man would live and which man would die.
~ Larry McMurtry
Never criticize, unless you can do a better job.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
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~ Laurell K. Hamilton
My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.
~ Charles Kettering
Successful women are not liked. I think the biggest danger for women in science is colleagues who are not as good as you are.
~ Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
The manipulation of statistical formulas is no substitute for knowing what one is doing.
~ Hubert M. Blalock
Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power.
~ J. G. Holland
Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs.
~ Aristotle