Quotes About Competence

If ever there was a time for a PM ready and able to do the job from day one, this is it.

The young man who has the combination of the learning of books with the learning which comes of doing things with the hands need not worry about getting along in the world today, or at any time.

When your confidence goes up, your competence goes up the same time.

Why is it that any time government takes over something for a few years, its assumed that people are too incompetent to do it for themselves?

It takes our government an awful lot of time to do most things competently, and that's part of the problem here.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

I felt very good; I judged I had done it pretty neat--I reckoned Tom Sawyer couldn't a done it no neater himself. Of course he would a throwed more style into it, but I can't do that very handy, not being brung up with it.

The simple fact that he could, took the desire away, and the charm of it

The science of Papa's trade brought him an even greater level of respect. It was well and good to share bread and music, but it was nice for Liesel to know that he was also more than capable in his occupation. Competence was attractive.

Ser bueno en algo era interesante.

Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti-environmental.

It is all very well to say that a man is clever, but the reader wants to see examples of it...

sometime over the last several decades—and it is only over the last several decades—science has filled in enough knowledge to make ineptitude as much our struggle as ignorance.

What is troubling is not just being average but settling for it. Everyone knows that average-ness is, for most of us, our fate. And in certain matters—looks, money, tennis—we would do well to accept this. But in your surgeon, your child's pediatrician, your police department, your local high school? When the stakes are our lives and the lives of our children, we want no one to settle for average.

Could a computer outperform an experienced specialist?

How could anyone who makes a mistake of that magnitude be allowed to practice medicine?

But now the problem we face is ineptitude, or maybe it's "eptitude"—making sure we apply the knowledge we have consistently and correctly. Just making the right treatment choice among the many options for a heart attack patient can be difficult, even for expert clinicians.

science has filled in enough knowledge to make ineptitude as much our struggle as ignorance.

He's a fine doctor," people will say, "but sometimes he has his moments.

But now the problem we face is ineptitude, or maybe it's "eptitude"—making sure we apply the knowledge we have consistently and correctly.

The second type of failure the philosophers call ineptitude—because in these instances the knowledge exists, yet we fail to apply it correctly.

Your competence gives you a secure sense of identity.

In surgery, as in anything else, skill and confidence are learned through experience

I had always had the oddest feeling, consider it knowledge, that if I were ever to find myself inside the cockpit of a 767 with two dead piolets and afew hundred passengers in the cabin behind me, I would absolutely be able to land the ninety-thousand-pound jet.