Quotes About Competence

A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane.

The great thing in life is not to be able to do things, because then they are always done for you.

I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Having ADD makes life paradoxical. You can superfocus sometimes, but also space out when you least mean to. You can radiate confidence and also feel as insecure as a cat in a kennel. You can perform at the highest level, feeling incompetent as you do so. You can be loved by many, but feel as if no one really likes you. You can absolutely, totally, intend to do something, then forget to do it. You can have the greatest ideas in the world, but feel as if you can't accomplish a thing.

It is almost impossible to substitute intelligence for experience.

As the developmental psychologist Alison Gopnik and her colleagues have observed, general intelligence, behavioral flexibility, ability to solve novel problems, and a reliance on learning from others tends to roughly correlate with an extended period of helpless immaturity.13 This relationship is found across a broad range of animals, including birds and mammals, suggesting that it tracks a fundamental evolutionary trade-off between narrow competence and creative flexibility.

These unwanted performance pressures are generated when new therapists frame what they don't know or can't do yet as a "deficit" or as evidence of their inadequacy, rather than more realistically framing it as merely their own inexperience.

Competence As many cases show, a police officer without an understanding of people will not deal competently with conflict, while one who has it can calm adversaries and ease tension.

Approaching and achieving what one wants through a third party is a pure risk of failure, whether sooner or later; it also shows a lack of confidence and ability. In this context, one can figure out that the United Nations and its Security Council indeed fall under such third-party exactly.

Do not expect the best and the collective results if you hire the idiot ones for any job.

To prove mastery requires significant scholarly knowledge; otherwise, it mirrors the tomfoolery.

when being watched, timed, or evaluated, we often cannot display our competence. Our deeper processing may make it seem that at first we are not catching on, but with time we understand and remember more than others.

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.

I always have to prove that I can be better

El mundo está prodigiosamente cambiado y les pertenece cada vez más a ellas, cada vez menos a mí [...] lo que cuenta son estas muchachas tan competentes que no se han encontrado ni una de las dificultades con las que yo he tenido que vérmelas. Tienen unos modales, unas voces, unas exigencias, unas pretensiones, una conciencia de sí mismas que yo ni siquiera hoy me atrevo a permitirme.

Above all else, never think you're not good enough.

Above all else, never think you're not good enough.

Epictetus, for instance, challenged the idea that we improve solely by reading books and acquiring knowledge. Instead, we should demonstrate that the knowledge has really sunk in: 'A builder does not come and say, "Listen to me talking on the art of building", … but undertakes to build a house and proves by building it that he knows the art.

En ningún otro campo profesional se puede llegar más lejos careciendo de cualquier cualificación, conocimiento o habilidad verificable. Se puede dirigir un hospital y hasta ser ministro de sanidad sin tener la menor noción de medicina, y ocupar un puesto de alto rango en la política internacional sin hablar ningún idioma extranjero.

A true expert in a TV reality show does not merely restrict oneself to giving points or pointing out the artiste's mistakes but also proves own points by self correcting that performer's errors.

People talk mostly against a person behind his back only if he lacks ability but with jacks has attained the position of an authority

Professionals keep their words and the people who are duffers keep only obsequious to let own foolish word be always heard.