quotes about Incompetence
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Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence
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Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence.
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Whenever you're faced with an explanation of what's going on in Washington, the choice between incompetence and conspiracy, always choose incompetence.
-- Charles Krauthammer -
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All the 'too close to call' announcements are not due to incompetence ... It's caution.
-- Chris Matthews -
When focusing only on one's credentials one boasts his own incompetence in his capacity for discernment of the individual.
-- Criss Jami -
Let me not fuss and fret at my incompetence but be still and know that Thou art God.
-- Emily Carr -
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It happens; incompetence is rewarded more often than not.
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The price of loyalty is incompetence.
-- Jonathan AlterSource : Jonathan Alter (2008). “Between the Lines: A View Inside American Politics, People, and Culture”
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Secrecy breeds incompetence because where there is failure, failure is kept secret.
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One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.
-- Kim Stanley RobinsonSource : Kim Stanley Robinson (2009). “Galileo's Dream”, p.380, Spectra
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Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.
-- Kingsley AmisSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Carelessness with details sinks more careers than anyone will admit.
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The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.
-- Malcolm WallopSource : "Ted McGinley reflects on faith, the meaning of the Cross and playing a pastor in 'Do You Believe?'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.ff.org.
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The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself.
-- Orrin Woodward -
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If for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, many points of fascinating interpretation are open to the paranoid imagination.
-- Richard HofstadterSource : Richard Hofstadter (2016). “The Paranoid Style in American Politics: An Essay: from The Paranoid Style in American Politics”, p.19, Vintage
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Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence.
-- Robert A. Heinlein -
Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.
-- Robert Genn -
Bullying consists of the least competent most aggressive employee projecting their incompetence on to the least aggressive most competent employee and winning.
-- Tim Field -
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Adventure is a sign of incompetence.
-- Vilhjalmur StefanssonSource : Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1927). “My Life with the Eskimos”
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I don't know what I'm doing, but my incompetence has never stopped my enthusiasm.
-- Woody Allen -
Writing is the only trade I know of in which sniveling confessions of extreme incompetence are taken as credentials probative of powers to astound the multitude.
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Never underestimate the incompetence of government.
-- James Cook -
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Honestly, the most uncomfortable thing for me is my level of incompetence is uncomfortable.
-- Timothy MillerSource : "Exclusive: Tim Miller Talks Deadpool Development & X-Men Universe". Interview with Rob Keyes, screenrant.com. November 5, 2015.