Quotes About Competence

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

motherhood should be like driving a car -- you should have to pass a test before you can do it legally.

Men have great respect for a woman who can be both competent and attractive. Competence without charm can irritate some men. I think you should be appealing, but not in a phony way. It has to be part of your personality. If it isn't, acquire it, and they'll forgive your know-how. After all, men really love women more than they hate them!

Nomacorc clearly had what most managers would call a "core competence" in chemistry. But its competitive success in the wine market resulted from decisions to deploy those capabilities in activities that enhanced the design and manufacture of wine stoppers.

I know you're competent and your thesis advisor knows you're competent. The question in our minds is are you really serious about what you're doing?" This was said to a young woman who had already spent five years and over $10,000 getting to that point in her Ph.D. program.

Don't worry about me. I'm real good at this shit. Why do you think they made me president?

The object of linguistics is language; that of poetics is concrete utterance. Language is an institution, a formal system which constitutes, for the hypothetical speaker, a "competence"; it is a virtual object. Speech (the poetic utterance, for our purposes) is an individual act which formulates a concrete discourse; it is a "performance".

I'll see if I can find someone in the Toland Police Department who doesn't use his brains to wipe his backside.

The attractiveness of a man usually depends predominantly upon his skills and prowess rather than upon his physical appearance.

Goddamn it, do it yourself. You're five hundred years old and you can't use a telephone? Read the directions. What are you, an immortal idiot?

More than 90% of professors rate themselves as better-than-average teachers. About 90% of Americans rate their driving ability as better than average. Only 1% of students think their social skills are below average.

I believe in professionalism, less in politicians.

No one can point fingers at my professionalism.

I think the thing that's impressed me the most has been the fantastic professionalism of the officials in the Senate.

The actors in 'Eight Men Out' really know how to play, and the background athletes are all professionals.

I don't worry about the integrity of the game. Our players are professionals.

The professionals at the State Board of Elections must assume control of the county board of elections operations in Bladen County, which has shown itself incapable of managing fair elections.

As professionals, you always have to perform to the top of your ability.

We do have very intelligent actresses in our country. They're all very capable, smart and are managing their professions very well.

'Nutty Professor' was me going, 'Say what you want to say, but I can do this, and you can't, and nobody else in the town can do this.'

Training programs shouldn't be designed to deliver competence; they must be dedicated to producing excellence. Serious organizations don't aspire to be comfortably above average.

I'll put my progressive credentials up against anyone's.

City employees will be hired and promoted because of their abilities - without outside interference.

I think if an actor is not able to pronounce their own dialogues, no matter what language, you are not an actor.