Competence quotes

I've reached the age where competence is a turn-on.
-- Billy Joel

#Competition #Age #Competence

In hospitals I feel palpable comfort. I feel the competence, the expertise, so much education and money, all of the supplies sterile, everything packaged, sealed tight. My fears evaporate when the automatic doors shush open.
-- Dave Eggers

#Doors #Comfort #Competence

First be a magnificent artist and then you can do whatever, but the art must be first.
-- Francisco Goya

#Art #Firsts #Competence

Learn to do the common things uncommonly well.
-- George Washington Carver

#Common #Competence #Wells

Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.
-- Izaak Walton

#Being Thankful #Quiet #Competence

There are, it is true, at present no great prizes in literature such as are offered by the learned professions, but there are quite as many small ones - competences; while, on the other hand, it is not so much of a lottery.
-- James Payn

#Hands #Literature #Competence

The RNC was run so badly you could walk through their deepest competence and not get your ankles wet.
-- John Fund

#Running #Ankles #Competence

I do love competence in a man.
-- Katharine Weber

#Men #Competence

True competence is based on one’s own ability to observe.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Ability #Competence

Our confidence...is not in the competence of our own knowing, but in the faithfulness and reliability of the one who is known.
-- Lesslie Newbigin

#Faithfulness #Competence

Competence is a great creator of confidence.
-- Mary Jo Putney

#Competence #Creator

Churches often confuse loyalty with competence.
-- Phil Cooke

#Loyalty #Church #Competence

Train yourself: It is not by accident an artist becomes a good painter.
-- Sergei Bongart

#Artist #Painter #Competence

Maturity is largely about acquiring the confidence and the competence to make your own decisions.
-- Susan Maushart

#Maturity #Decision #Competence

Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.
-- Tarja Halonen

#Problem #Inequality #Competence

Leadership shows judgment, wisdom, personal appeal and proven competence.
-- Walt Disney

#Judgment #Appeals #Competence

No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence.
-- William Glasser

#Believe #Hard Work #Competence

Epistemic competence might be posterior to knowledge conceptually, however, while still prior metaphysically.
-- Ernest Sosa

#Might #Competence #Stills

Success is better than failure; an attempt is a better attempt, it is better as an attempt, if competent than if incompetent; and it is better to succeed through competence - aptly - than through sheer luck.
-- Ernest Sosa

#Luck #Succeed #Competence

When you dream, your perceptual (and other) competence is affected. You are then unable to get it right competently with the beliefs in your dream.
-- Ernest Sosa

#Dream #Belief #Competence

Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence.
-- Ron Suskind

#Faces #Action #Competence

I will not enter into a public feud with Madame Callas, since I am well aware that she has considerably greater competence and experience at that kind of thing than I have.
-- Rudolf Bing

#Feuds #Kind #Competence