Quotes About Competence

I ain't a 16-fight novice who has only fought at British title level.

I'm good at what I do but, to be honest, not a whole hell of a lot else!

I think I'm a great defender, to be honest.

My parents taught me many of the things that people need in life to feel confident: practical things, such as managing finances, mucking out the goat barn, cleaning a house, doing repairs, mending a broken roof or a toilet.

I grew up in a world with my father where you learnt to iron, you learnt to cook, you learnt how to clean the toilet... I want my children to be the same... I want them to be anywhere in the world and be able to cope.

You wouldn't tolerate an underperforming surgeon in an operating theatre, or a underperforming midwife at your child's birth. Why is it that we tolerate underperforming teachers in the classroom?

I suspect competence follows from an ability to believe oneself competent.

Buck regarded his two agents, Andrée and Lise, certain he was dropping his two most competent, most capable. Each was a girl who kept her head when all about were losing theirs, as Kipling might have said.

They were not hired for their looks or their sophistication; the most competent ones specialized in puzzles, music, and foreign languages.

Learning to shoot firearms to me is a little like driving stick - it seems like a decent skill to have.

Sevarin had been dismissive about the chance of finding out anything useful from the cops, but when it came to getting information, I had an edge he didn't. Sevarin did not make a killer lasagne.

Many women feel that no matter how competent others think they are, or no matter how much they achieve, they are really just fooling everyone.

You move through Shame and Guilt and must ultimately redefine your sense of what it means to be a mature, confident, competent woman, even if after treatment you are still somewhat messy, disorganized, or forgetful. For me, it means I have learned to value myself as a creative woman who will never match some culturally sanctioned image I may have internalized a long time ago about what a woman should be or be able to do.

With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands--someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence.

Here was a task with boundaries and purpose, a small thing that made sense. A small thing I could do well.

Intelligence is a measure of how well you function within your level of awareness.

In this age, being seen as an "expert" may have little bearing on the "expert's" ability to do the thing she is supposedly an expert in.

couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys—but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly. —Richard Feynman

Break the rules only if you have mastered them.

At times I still labor under the myth of an omnicompetence. If I just prayed enough, believed enough, or was filled with the Spirit enough, I would never get discouraged or downcast. What a groundless lie. What a horrible burden. What a humorless joke.

Is there life before death? That's chalked up In Ballymurphy. Competence with pain, Coherent miseries, a bite and a sup, We hug our little destiny again.

Every time I do it at least proves I can still do it.

Her time is about 4.33, which she's capable of.

Last time I checked I was able to throw the ball a little bit.