Competent Quotes - Page 10

• I fancy myself as being a fairly competent person.

  Lisa Ling

  Fancy, Persons

  "Lisa Ling Helps Women Share Compassion Through Secrets". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. December 24, 2010.

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• INADMISSIBLE- Not competent to be considered. Hearsay evidence is inadmissible ... but there is no religion in the world that has any other basis than hearsay evidence.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Religion, World, Evidence

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• Therefore: In dwelling, choose modest quarters, in thinking, value stillness, in dealing with others, be kind, in choosing words, be sincere, in leading, be just, in working, be competent, in acting, choose the correct timing. Follow these words and there will be no error.

  Laozi

  Thinking, Errors, Dwelling

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• Don't blame me for the fact that competent programming, as I view it as an intellectual possibility, will be too difficult for the average programmer, you must not fall into the trap of rejecting a surgical technique because it is beyond the capabilities of the barber in his shop around the corner.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Fall, Views, Average

  Edsger W. Dijkstra (2012). “Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective”, p.163, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Which are you?...competen t, inspiring, passionate, obsessed, provocative, impatient, hungry, driven, adoring, inspired, an artist, a genius, someone who cares...?
  With all these remarkable, powerful, important options available to each of us, why do so many of us default to competent?

  Seth Godin

  Powerful, Artist, Important

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• The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.

  James Agate

  Failure, Kind, Worst

  James Agate (1949). “A Shorter Ego: Ego 7, Ego 8, Ego 9”

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• Finding a programmer to work with if you don't already know one will be a challenge. Merely judging if a programmer is exceptional vs. competent will be very hard if you are not one yourself. When you do find someone, work together informally for a while to test your compatibility.

  Jessica Livingston

  Judging, Challenges, Working Together

  "The Advice For Any Woman Who Wants To Found A Startup" by Jessica Livingston, www.businessinsider.com. January 31, 2011.

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• We could encourage the best qualities of youthfulness - curiosity, adventure, resilience, the capacity for surprising insight simply by being more flexible about time, texts, and tests, by introducing kids into truly competent adults, and by giving each student what autonomy he or she needs in order to take a risk every now and then. But we don't do that.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Kids, Adventure, Order

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• The effective exploitation of his powers of abstraction must be regarded as one of the most vital activities of a competent programmer.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Exploitation, Programmers, Activity

  "The Humble Programmer". Edsger Dijkstra's ACM Turing Award lecture, "Communications of the ACM", Volume 15, No. 10, www.cs.utexas.edu. October 1972.

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• In view of the vast size of the occupied areas in the East the forces available for establishing security in these areas will be sufficient only if all resistance is punished not by legal prosecution of the guilty but by the spreading of such terror by the occupying power as is appropriate to eradicate every inclination to resist among the population. The competent commanders must find the means of keeping order not by demanding more security forces but by applying suitable Draconian methods.

  Alfred Jodl

  Mean, Views, Order

  "The Nuremberg Trial and International Law". Book by George Ginsburgs, p. 163 (July 23, 1941 order issued to the German Arm), 1990.

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• Men are competent in groups that mimic the playground, incompetent in groups that mimic the family

  Jane Smiley

  Men, Groups, Playgrounds

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• When you smile you don't only appear to be more likable and courteous, you appear to be more competent.

  Ron Gutman

  Motivation, Inspiration, Courteous

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• I'm a huge Obama fan. I think it's such an unbelievably great thing to have a President who's competent and not insane.

  Randy Cohen

  Thinking, Insecurity, Insane

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• While photography is the easiest medium in which to be competent, it is the hardest in which to develop an idiosyncratic personal vision.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Vision, Hardest

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• It is the basic principle of spiritual life that we learn the deepest things in unknown territory. Often it is when we feel most confused inwardly and are in the midst of our greatest difficulties that something new will open. We awaken most easily to the mystery of life through our weakest side. The areas of our greatest strength, where we are the most competent and clearest, tend to keep us away from the mystery.

  Jack Kornfield

  Spiritual, Confused, Principles

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• It is really quite amazing by what margins competent but conservative scientists and engineers can miss the mark, when they start with the preconceived idea that what they are investigating is impossible.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Ideas, Missing, Conservative

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• Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working-day, he may safely leave the result to itself. He can with perfect certainty count on waking up some fine morning to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation.

  William James

  Inspirational, Education, Morning

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.127, Courier Corporation

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• Man, who preys both on the vegetable and animal species, is himself a prey to neither. He too possesses the reproductive principle far beyond the degree requisite for the bare continuance of his species. What becomes of the surplus of human life to which this principle is competent?

  James Madison

  Men, Animal, Vegetables

  James Madison (1867). “1829-1836”, p.454

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• For most of us even the imagined threat of criticism functions to control our behavior. We are haunted to some degree by questions about our self-worth. As a consequence, we continually attempt to prove to ourselves and others that we are okay people, credible, trustworthy, and competent.

  Robert D. Hare

  Self Worth, People, Criticism

  Robert D. Hare (2011). “Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us”, p.99, Guilford Press

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• It has been thought that the people are not competent electors of judges learned in the law. But I do not know this to be true, and, if doubtful, we should follow principle.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Law, People, Judging

  Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.241, Hackett Publishing

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• America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music schools with competent teachers, and many, very many, free scholarships for talented young disciples who are unable to pay the expense of study.

  Anton Seidl

  Teacher, School, America

  Anton Seidl (2014). “On Conducting”, p.106, Parrot Press

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• I alwaysthought of myself as a competent, minor poet. I know who I'm up against.

  Leonard Cohen

  Poet, Minors, Knows

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• We're all competent in different ways, we've just got to find a way to push ourselves up more.

  Benjamin Clementine

  Different, Way, Different Ways

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You have people who know you are competent enough to do your job and then you have the ones that just hover around.

  Sarah Gadon

  Jobs, People, Enough

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Whitney proved to be a competent manufacturer, but wasn't an original inventor to any important degree. Thomas Blanchard was a true genius: his stock making machine was the daddy of all the industrial profiling machinery, like the 1870s universal milling machine, that was the especial American contribution to machining technology. By that time, the British conceded that machinery innovation had shifted to America.

  Charles R. Morris

  Technology, America, Daddy

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.

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