Quotes About Competence

I'm pretty tried-and-tested in the world of 'suit acting.'

I think my game is very suited for clay. It brings out my strengths more so than my other surfaces.

One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun.

The skill to do comes of doing.

Skill to do comes of doing.

All men are competent to know the mind of God. There is no revelation special to any people.

Una buona reputazione professionale non è sempre garanzia di un intelletto equilibrato.

What saves us is efficiency—the devotion to efficiency.

A man may know so much of everything that he knows little of anything. This may sound paradoxical, but, nevertheless, experience proves its truth.

We often mistakenly assume that because someone has genuine understanding in one particular area, this mastery necessarily extends to all other areas of life. That may or may not be true.

Appleby was as good at shooting crap as he was at playing Ping-Pong, and he was as good at playing Ping-Pong as he was at everything else. Everything Appleby did, he did well. Appleby was a fair-haired boy from Iowa who believed in God, Motherhood, and the American Way of Life, without ever thinking about any of them, and everybody who knew him liked him. I hate that son of a bitch, Yossarian growled.

There are going to be many changes, I warn you. I want no officer who is not prepared to do everything that his men have to do. Not only that-he must be able to do it better.

Cultive a consciência do poder, de modo que você possa empregar suas competências de modo bem-sucedido, e empregá-las em fazer perfeitamente tudo o que você for capaz de fazer agora, onde você está agora. Não espere por uma mudança no ambiente; pode ser que ela jamais chegue. Sua única chance de alcançar um ambiente melhor é fazer uso construtivo do seu ambiente atual.

How deep is your game?

I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone.'

I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone.

When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something, they'll tell you.

Para que lo tengas en cuenta: los buenos profesionales no son necesariamente los que sobresalen cuantitativamente en las calificaciones, sino principalmente los que han obtenido

Cuánto tiempo hemos perdido buscando ser competentes en cosas inútiles y sin sentido, solo por sobrepasar el promedio! Los apegos siempre están al servicio de lo inútil, lo absurdo o lo peligroso, así que no pierdas el tiempo.

To confuse compulsory schooling with equal educational opportunity is like confusing organized religion with spirituality. One does not necessarily lead to the other. Schooling confuses teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new.

Schooling confuses teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new.

There are few who will find shortcuts. There are simply rare opportunities to accelerate competence, and without paying the price, no matter how great or small, none will become prepared to lead others.

Highly skilled people are less noisy, and they also show less bias.

the line between what clinicians can do well and what they cannot do at all well is not obvious, and certainly not obvious to them.