Quotes About Competence

A person can be utterly incompetent and yet dazzlingly confident. What's more, this same person can know how incompetent they are and still be just as confident. Confidence has nothing to do with ability.

There's nothing of any importance in life - except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are, will come from that. It's the only measure of human value. All the codes of ethics they'll try to ram down your throat are just so much paper money put out by swindlers to fleece people of their virtues. The code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a gold standard.

She could not descend to an existence where her brain would explode under the pressure of forcing itself not to outdistance incompetence. She could not function to the rule of: Pipe down-keep down-slow down-don't do your best, it is not wanted!

Money will not buy intelligence for the fool, or admiration for the coward, or respect for the incompetent.

It's easier to donate a few thousands to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement. It's simple to seek substitutes for competence—such easy substitutes: love, charm, kindness, charity. But there is no substitute for competence.

She had never done these things before; she did them expertly. She had a capacity for action, a competence that clashed incongruously with her appearance.

Francisco could do anything he undertook, he could do it better than anyone else, and he did it without effort. There was no boasting in his manner and consciousness, no thought of comparison. His attitude was not: "I can do it better than you," but simply: "I can do it." What he meant by doing was doing superlatively.

The code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a gold standard.

It was only in the first few years that she felt herself screaming silently, at times, for a glimpse of human ability, a single glimpse of clean, hard, radiant competence. She had fits of tortured longing for a friend or enemy with a mind better than her own.

Any man, who's afraid of hiring the best ability he can find, is a cheat who's in a business where he doesn't belong. To me-the foulest man on earth, more contemptible than a criminal, is the employer who rejects men for being too good. That's what I've always thought and- say, what are you laughing at?

she had always looked for sparks of competence, like a diamond prospector in an unpromising wasteland.

The code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a gold standard.

Those who wish to deal with me, must do so on my terms or not at all. I do not make terms with incompetence.

He was the type of person who believed he alone could do the job adequately and afterward complained that no one had helped.

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A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence.

In short, the advent of super-intelligent AI would be either the best or the worst thing ever to happen to humanity. The real risk with AI isn't malice but competence. A super-intelligent AI will be extremely good at accomplishing its goals, and if those goals aren't aligned with ours we're in trouble.

Tapi kita selalu bisa mempertanyakan kompetensi orang yang melakukan pengamatan.

One should try to live with his abilities rather than his deprivals.

All I want is the same thing you want. To have a nation with a government that is as good and honest and decent and competent and compassionate and as filled with love as are the American people.

He showed people the pairs of photographs from each contest with no information about political party, and he asked them to pick which person seemed more competent. He found that the candidate that people judged more competent was the one who actually won the race about two-thirds of the time.

It is a crime every time we ask ourselves how smart a person is, instead of asking ourselves what makes that person smart.

As I mentioned, Ardelt and others of her school of thought regard wisdom as combining competence in three areas. One domain is cognitive (relating to knowledge and intellect), the second is affective (relating to compassion and emotion), and the third is reflective—but reflective means something more than mere contemplation.

You're not our leader,' Dave said. 'No, but I know what I'm doing, which is a nice alternative.' - Lucy