Quotes About Competence

The challenge and chance to learn is its own reward. It is usually not difficult to figure out ways of offering challenge. Asking your potential allies to join the problem-solving group or passing them a tough piece of your project are ways to pay in the currency of challenge. (If the person is competent, you probably get back more than expected.)

Does the person see himself or herself as highly competent or still learning?

Credibility through action. First, he bought himself time to do his homework. Then by terminating the two engineers who weren't competent in their positions, he increased his credibility with Fred as a person who could take action.

As a means of dispensing formulated ignorance our boasted public school system is not without merit; it spreads out education sufficiently thin to give everyone enough to make him a more competent fool than he would have been without it...

His ability was exceeded only by his belief in his own ability.

When you know that you know "how" to do something, you're on your way to mastering it.

raise? He was outstanding in his field.

Intelligens är kapaciteten att förvärva kapacitet.

psikoloji profesörü olan Jan Tonnes­vang'?n söyledi?ine göre, herkesin bir "ustal?k" duygusuna bir alanda iyi oldu?unu hissetmeye ihtiyac? var. ?nsan?n temel psikolojik ih­tiyaçlar?ndan biri bu. Bir konuda iyi oldu?unuzu hissetti?inizde ona çok daha kolay odaklanabiliyorsunuz; beceriksiz oldu?unuzu hissetti?inizde ise dikkatiniz da??l?p gidiyor.

I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.

It is such an agreeable feeling to be busy with something one is only half-competent to do that nobody should criticize the dilettante for taking up an art he will never learn, or blame the artist who leaves the territory of his own art for the pleasure of trying himself in a neighbouring one.

No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.

Not only do I know how to milk a cow, but I know how to herd a bunch of cows, too, which is a life skill that I think may come in handy someday.

Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little

One's only security in life comes from doing something uncommonly well.

I'm very organized and tidy in my home life and I generally do something myself rather than farm it out to somebody else. I don't have an assistant or anything because I think I can do it myself.

I have no place in my life for someone who is sure he can do everything. --Steelmind

Self-Consistency One of the first revisions proposed was the self-consistency interpretation of dissonance (Aronson, 1968, 1992). It is based on the idea that situations that evoke dissonance do so because they create inconsistency between the self-concept and a behavior. Because most persons have a positive self-concept, persons are likely to experience dissonance when they behave in a way that they view as incompetent, immoral, or irrational.

Would it make you feel better if I pretended not to be making it up as I go along? [...] In that case, I know exactly what I'm doing, but please don't ask me about it in any great detail.

And within her something was screaming: "Oh, my God! Oh, my God! He knows French. And those girls that can row and everything. And me, I don't know anything. Oh, God, what'll I do?

nuestra orfandad de líderes competentes"

You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.

A slide rule always impresses, giving to the bystanders a feeling that the user thereof knows what he's about and will shortly come up with the answer.)

It is a mathematical fact that fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class.