Quotes About Competence

My tennis skills are okay.

I'll just let my tennis talk.

I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.

I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player.

I'm actually a pretty good tennis player!

It's that I have a good personality and am a good tennis player.

I can be a tennis player, a golf player, and even a soccer player.

You wouldn't go to a hospital, you wouldn't go to a law firm where the doctors and lawyers were not retained on merit: where they all had tenure regardless of competence. Parents feel the same way about schools that they send their children to.

There's simply no substitute for experience in terms of aviation safety.

Success means at least you are finding full potential to who you are in terms of your intelligence, your capability and competence: you are finding full expression to who you are. This is important.

You may not be the best at one thing.You may not be the strongest or the fastest, but you're also not going to be terrible at something. You practice everything.

When you're the best, and you know you're the best, and your contemporaries know you're the best, that's a terrific edge.

People like Bryant Gumbel and Bob Costas are terrific broadcasters because they get challenged every day.

In 1987, I had my first opportunity to provide 'advice and consent' on a Supreme Court nominee. At that time, I stated that the qualifications essential for evaluating a nominee for the bench included 'integrity, character, legal competence and ability, experience, and philosophy and judicial temperament.' On that test, Elena Kagan fails.

If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.

It is the curse of the competent?not to be called upon.

Is there anything you can do?' 'Well, in college I was studying-' 'Don't give me your goddamned life story! I'm interested in your trade, skill, talent, profession, ability, whatever you want to call it. What, specifically, can you do?' 'Well,'Marvin said, 'I guess, when you put it that way, I can't do anything much.

Getting something and having the wits to use it are two different things.

Why must it be one or the other?' she countered. 'You are both a capable seaman and the son of a Bingtown Trader. Why should not I have both sets of skill?

He got to the point. No idle questions about me, or you, or what was going on. He had found the thing he could do and come to do it. I like that in a man. Knowing what he can do, and doing it.

He worked as an agent for the same reason people worked as accountants and lawyers and corporate clerks. Because he was good at it. Because he liked the challenge. Because when the job was done right, he felt good about himself.

experience and the advantage of being the one

Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.

Once you had delegated the best people to do a job for you, you had to trust both them and your judgment. What