Competence Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Ayn Rand

  Money, People, Trying

  "Atlas Shrugged".

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• Listening (the first competence of leadership) is not a skill, it is a discipline. All you have to do is keep your mouth shut.

  Peter Drucker

  Skills, Discipline, Listening

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• Confidence is the public face of competence.

  Ron Suskind

  Faces

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• Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

  Peggy Noonan

  Strong, Politics, Sincerity

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• Train yourself: It is not by accident an artist becomes a good painter.

  Sergei Bongart

  Artist, Painter, Train

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• You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.

  Douglas Coupland

  Fake People, Creativity, Arousal

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “JPod”, p.12, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• True competence is based on one’s own ability to observe.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Ability

  L. Ron Hubbard “The Way To Happiness”, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.

  John Dickey

  Men, Ends, Made

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• Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals,' the ones who somehow know how to teach.

  Peter Drucker

  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

  Peter Drucker (2017). “The Age of Discontinuity: Guidelines to Our Changing Society”, p.310, Routledge

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

  William Glasser

  Believe, Hard Work, Humans

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• Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Beauty, Truth, Work

  Laurence J. Peter, Raymond Hull (1969). “The Peter Principle”

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• Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• Growing older is an opportunity for you to increase your value and competence as the neural connections in your hippocampus and throughout your brain increase, weaving into your brain and body the wisdom of a life well lived, which allows you to stop living out of fear of disappointing others and being imperfect. Ageless living is courageous living. It means being undistracted by the petty dramas of life because you have enough experience to know what’s not worth worrying about and what ought to be your priorities.

  Christiane Northrup

  Drama, Mean, Opportunity

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• Effective leadership is the only competitive advantage that will endure. That's because leadership has two sides- what a person is character and what a person does- competence.

  Stephen Covey

  Leadership, Basketball, Character

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• Competence is the enemy of change!

  Seth Godin

  Change, Enemy

  Seth Godin (2012). “Survival Is Not Enough: Shift Happens”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• To be a manager requires more than a title, a big office, and other outward symbols of rank. It requires competence and performance of a high order.

  Peter Drucker

  Order, Office, Titles

  "Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1973.

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• Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.

  Larry McMurtry

  People, Intelligence, Trouble

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• If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.

  William Glasser

  Teaching, Test Scores, Tests

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• Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence.

  Alexander Pope

  Peace, Lying, Joy

  Alexander Pope (1806). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. In Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton: Illustrations, and Critical and Explanatory Remarks, by Johnson, Wakefield, A. Chalmers, F.S.A. and Others. To which are Added, Now First Published, Some Original Letters, with Additional Observations, and Memoirs of the Life of the Author”, p.154

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

  Stephen Covey

  Leadership, Wisdom, Motivation

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help you to get there, students do competent work. The lowest passing grade in the real world is competence. Why do schools accept so much less?

  William Glasser

  Real, School, World

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• The drive to resist compulsion is more important in wild animals than sex, food, or water... The drive for competence or to resist compulsion is a drive to avoid helplessness.

  Martin Seligman

  Sex, Animal, Water

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• Competence is no longer scarce.

  Seth Godin

  Scarce

  Seth Godin (2012). “The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?”, p.16, Penguin

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• To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Success, Honesty, Opportunity

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• Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Engineering, Tools, Woe

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