quotes about Competence
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I've reached the age where competence is a turn-on.
-- Billy Joel -
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 -
First be a magnificent artist and then you can do whatever, but the art must be first.
-- Francisco Goya -
Learn to do the common things uncommonly well.
-- George Washington Carver -
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Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.
-- Izaak Walton -
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 PaynSource : James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”
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The RNC was run so badly you could walk through their deepest competence and not get your ankles wet.
-- John Fund -
I do love competence in a man.
-- Katharine WeberSource : Katharine Weber (2011). “The Music Lesson: A Novel”, p.23, Crown
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True competence is based on one’s own ability to observe.
-- L. Ron Hubbard -
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 -
Competence is a great creator of confidence.
-- Mary Jo PutneySource : Mary Jo Putney (2000). “The Burning Point”, Berkley Publishing Group
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Churches often confuse loyalty with competence.
-- Phil Cooke -
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Train yourself: It is not by accident an artist becomes a good painter.
-- Sergei Bongart -
Maturity is largely about acquiring the confidence and the competence to make your own decisions.
-- Susan MaushartSource : Susan Maushart (2011). “The Winter of Our Disconnect: How Three Totally Wired Teenagers (and a Mother Who Slept with Her iPhone)Pulled the Plug on Their Technology and Lived to Tell the Tale”, p.23, Penguin
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Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.
-- Tarja HalonenSource : Tarja Halonen's speech at the opening of the Women of Learning exhibition in Helsinki, www.helsinki.fi. August 5, 2000.
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Leadership shows judgment, wisdom, personal appeal and proven competence.
-- Walt Disney -
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No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence.
-- William Glasser -
Epistemic competence might be posterior to knowledge conceptually, however, while still prior metaphysically.
-- Ernest SosaSource : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
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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 -
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 -
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Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence.
-- Ron Suskind -
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