Quotes About Competence

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

He said telling someone else what they're doing wrong isn't the same as being able to do it yourself.

And this guy called himself a safety professional? When was the last time HE read a Department of Motor Vehicles manual?

To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.

Your fragments of knowledge will lead to competence. Your competence will lead to fluency. Your fluency will intensify to higher and higher levels of fluency. The best attitude, however, is that your attempt to master the foreign language, should remain perpetually unfinished business. You'll succeed if you make sure you never go to bed knowing no more of your target language than you did when you woke up!

You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.

they propound the first principle of totalitarianism: that the State is competent to do all things and is limited in what it actually does only by the will of those who control the State. It is clear that this view is in direct conflict with the Constitution which is an instrument, above all, for limiting the functions of government, and which is as binding today as when it was written.

You'll be amazed at how capable people think you are if they don't know you well. Don't waste that advantage.

At one point, people are going to have to realize that maybe I know what I'm doing.

I'm not a total chump. I write stuff that's reasonably musically complex.

Every receiver should feel that he's the best. It's all about confidence.

I think I am capable of doing what any other elite receiver is capable of doing.

As long as I'm in good shape and I'm healthy, I feel I'm the best receiver on the planet.

Lara's done very well recently and I never had any doubts about the abilities of Lara or Waugh.

I think people should recognise that I'm one of the best defenders in the world and not just talk nonsense, I will say.

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

If you play in Holland, you aren't recognized as a very good player.

But if I had to do it, handle money, then I think I could be responsible, yes.

I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.

I need my president to be prepared to handle all the critical issues our country faces.

I mean, I feel pressure sometimes, but I think I'm handling really well.

There are some careers where hands-on experience means so much more than the book work of it.

I was hanging out with no one under 21. I thought that if I really wanted to fit in I had to... show them that I was in a way just as adult as they were, 'cause I could hold my own just as well as they could, if not better.

I happen to think, really, that I'm good at what I do.