Quotes About Competence

The most important thing she had learned so far - and it was something to know, after only twelve hours - was that she need not pretend, always, to be competent or at home in a strange atmosphere. Other people, she had learned, were frequently uneasy and uncertain, lost their way or their money, were nervous at being approached by strangers or wary of officials.

Pues veo que son efectivos, sobre todo, los hechos llevados a cabo por los consejos de los que tienen experiencia.

Which people show you an attitude, they people have not an aptitude...

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

But did this matter? No king could do everything himself: kingship was a matter of delegation, but with the king making the major decisions. Effective delegation, however, required, first, choosing competent ministers and, second, a willingness to follow their advice and to back them up when necessary.

after a period in which technocrats attempted to become stars and stars to become politicians, the political void has been occupied by the force of mediocrity, which can easily master enough of the star techniques to produce inoffensive personalities and enough of the rational vocabulary to create the sounds of competence.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it.

Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.

Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible men, they will make themselves capable and sensible lawyers or physicians.

To define, is to select from among all the properties of a thing, those which shall be understood to be designated and declared by its name; and the properties must be well known to us before we can be competent to determine which of them are fittest to be chosen for this purpose.

If a thing is done well, no one will ask how long it took to do it, but only, who did it.

It's like a malicious person lifting a photograph from the developing chemicals too early, and then pronouncing the photographer incompetent.

People have to be allowed to make their own mistakes and to try again, or they will never master themselves, although they may well seem to be competent when they have in fact only memorized or imitated someone else's performance.

there are many ways to interdict the growth of competence, of clear thinking, of forceful purpose, and each is a talking choo-choo in different guise: think of slasher flicks, think of pornography, think of Big Macs or tabloid/network news — each is easy to take, each seemingly an inconsequential time-killer. But ah! The ensemble of them playing their mindless tunes — the Death of a Thousand Cuts!

In this sense, an object is of the highest degree of complexity if it can do very difficult and involved things.

Talent alone does not make someone an expert.

Edith's was a campaign waged with such cleverness and skill that he could find no rational grounds for complaint.

I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.

Helping feels good to the helper, but over time it may make the helped feel incompetent. Dr.

When we are first learning to do anything, we ought to expect to make mistakes and we should see our mistakes as steps along the way to competence.

Confidence is a prerequisite to competence. Yes! because when your confidence grows, your competence is bound to grow along with it. I mean, self-confidence boosts competence unimaginably.

Countless pleasures are wasted through ignorance and a want of skill and attention.

Per i Padri fondatori, la folla era stata un alleato prezioso per iniziare la ribellione, ma una volta fondati gli Stati Uniti, il popolo doveva lasciarsi governare e guidare dai più saggi e competenti. La rivolta per iniziare la rivoluzione era stata la funzione della folla: concludere la rivoluzione era la funzione dei capi;