Quotes About Competence

Certain subjects yield a general power that may be applied in any direction and should be studied by all.

In the scientific community you find competent teachers and original researchers, just as in the musical community you find many good performers but very few good composers.

Nothing is fun until you're good at it.

Trainers tended to perform with the same degree of effectiveness at various Saratoga meetings

Gain familiarity with the shell, and you'll find your productivity soaring.

Oh, I'm interested in everything, Joe. That's why I'm a bloody brilliant detective.' She gave him her widest smile. 'That's why I'm in charge and you're sitting there, doing as you're told.

In the information age, because we all have access to information, everyone considers themselves an expert.

Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success. Happiness

When it comes to skills, quantity often beats quality.

Dealing with experts is always tricky. Are they honest? Are they competent? How often are they right? My observation and best guess is that experts are right about 98 percent of the time on the easy stuff but only right 50 percent of the time on anything that is unusually complicated, mysterious, or even new. Years

Aquel que quiere obrar correctamente, debe servirse de la herramienta apropiada.

And so I think that if the person has the funds, the network, and the equipment to do this, and also the experience, which is the key factor, then they can be quite deadly.

they will have the right to expect from you the highest standards of character, professional competence and integrity.

A considerable percentage of these respondents [to a question about their ability to mix cocktails] are in the "somewhat" category on ability to mix cocktails.… Evidently, they do not have much confidence in their cocktail-mixing

A man with experience is never at the mercy of a man with an opinion.

Secondly, [man] should weigh his abilities-or rather lack of abilities.

there were a lot of people out there who had no right to be carrying even a sharpened pencil, never mind a loaded weapon.

Becoming sufficiently familiar with something is a substitute for understanding it.

I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.

To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education.

We humans are not getting more evil or sinful but are simply getting more competent and efficient at whatever we want to do--including sin as willed violence. And so, we have become, as Genesis 4 warned us inaugurally, steadily or even exponentially better and better at violence. And now, at last, that capacity threatens not just the family or the tribe, but the world and the Earth.

A big part of life is realizing what you're good at.

Horace normally didn't need anyone else to save his life. He was pretty skilled at doing it for himself.

The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.