Quotes About Competence

The better you get at your key skills, the more you accomplish in a shorter period of time.

Most of the time, we think fast. And most of the time we're really expert at what we're doing, and most of the time, what we do is right.

An incompetent teacher is even worse than an incompetent surgeon because a surgeon can only cut up one person at a time.

I'd like to think that on a lot of teams, I'd be a No.1. The thing I do know is that every time I take the mound, in my mind I'm the best pitcher in the league.

Everyone knows that I'm all in favour of apprenticeships, but let me tell you this is no time for a novice.

Los pedantes se irritan siempre de que conozcamos tan bien como ellos su mezquino oficio.

Moe was a triple threat." "He could sing, dance, and act?" She shook her head. "He could speak Armenian, saddle break a stallion, and pass for a female in drag.

Only the inept are always at their best.

Competent scientists do not doubt the hockey stick because it does not have enough publications to back it up. They doubt it because it has been shown to be based on incorrect math and inadequate data.

Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.

Nothing too serious. Just enough facility with a knife to be on a par with any Sicilian grandmother.

while most people have to establish competence before they feel confident, I decide to feel confident, and that provides the sense of certainty to persist until I am competent.

Money Power Principle 1. Don't get in the game unless you know the rules!

I remember dear old Lord Brock telling me how much more difficult it was to find a good coachman than a good Secretary of State.

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Not surprisingly, American officers regarded their British counter parts as 'too polite' and lacking a necessary ruthlessness, especially when it came to sacking incompetent commanders. Churchill

There was a corresponding orbit of moods this obligatory food preparation induced in my mother: no-nonsense competence, spunky pride, and seething resentment. From my mother, I learned that you can make your family feel a wonderful sense of protected indulgence by cooking them something with jolly care. I also learned that you can launch a powerful campaign of resistance by mincing garlic like a martyr.

There was a corresponding orbit of moods this obligatory food preparation induced in my mother: no-nonsense competence, spunky pride, and seething resentment.

My competent self is doing the talking; my bewildered self is being addressed.

Each man judges correctly those matters with which he is acquainted; it is of these that he is a competent critic.

We learn an art or craft by doing the things that we shall have to do when we have learnt it.

Now each man judges well the things he knows, and of these he is a good judge. And so the man who has been educated in a subject is a good judge of that subject, and the man who has received an all-round education is a good judge in general.

There is nothing in the least exciting or glamorous about deep-water operations—if they're done properly. Excitement means lack of foresight, and that means incompetence. The incompetent do not last long in my business, nor do those who crave excitement. I went about my job with all the pent-up emotion of a plumber dealing with a leaking faucet.

It is my business to know things. That is my trade.