Competent Quotes - Page 13

• In living in the world by his own will and skill, the stupidest peasant or tribesman is more competent than the most intelligent worker or technician or intellectual in a society of specialists.

  Wendell Berry

  Work, Intelligent, Skills

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.26, Counterpoint

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• An incompetent lawyer can delay a trial for months or years. A competent lawyer can delay one even longer.

  Evelle J. Younger

  Years, Law, Trials

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• But medicine has long had all its means to hand, and has discovered both a principle and a method, through which the discoveries made during a long period are many and excellent, while full discovery will be made, if the inquirer be competent, conduct his researches with knowledge of the discoveries already made, and make them his starting-point. But anyone who, casting aside and rejecting all these means, attempts to conduct research in any other way or after another fashion, and asserts that he has found out anything, is and has been victim of deception.

  Hippocrates

  Fashion, Mean, Science

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• There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Government, Community, Liberty

  "Southey's Colloquies on Society". Book by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1830.

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• He who knows how to teach a child is not competent for the oversight of a child's education unless he also knows how to train a child.

  Henry Clay Trumbull

  Children, Learning, Teach

  Henry Clay Trumbull (1893). “Hints on Child-training”

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• I think of a piece, and then people who are competent fabricate it. But lately I've started finger painting, which probably should be a joke but isn't!

  Jenny Holzer

  Thinking, People, Pieces

  Interview with Kiki Smith, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 26, 2012.

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• Reengineering cannot be entrusted to the semi-competent, the hangers-on with nothing better to do.

  Michael Martin Hammer

  Business, Hangers

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• Democrats consider the people as the safest depository of power in the last resort; they cherish them, therefore, and wish to leave in them all the powers to the exercise of which they are competent.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Exercise, People, Wish

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont”, p.391

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• A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.

  John J. Pershing

  Leadership, Vision, Troops

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• Christine and I haven't raised our children. A whole community of selfless Christians has contributed to helping them become faithful, competent adults.

  Clayton Christensen

  Christian, Children, Community

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• Successful careers are not planned. They develop when people are prepared for opportunities because they know their strengths, their method of work, and their values. Knowing where one belongs can transform an ordinary person - hardworking and competent but otherwise mediocre - into an outstanding performer.

  Peter Drucker

  Successful, Opportunity, Careers

  Peter Drucker, Alan Kantrow, Rick Wartzman, Julia Kirby (2016). “Get the Right Things Done: The Drucker Collection (6 Items)”, p.16, Harvard Business Review Press

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• Look somewhere else for someone who can follow you in your researches about numbers. For my part, I confess that they are far beyond me, and I am competent only to admire them.

  Blaise Pascal

  Math, Somewhere Else, Numbers

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• Values and verdicts never bother me half as much as people trying to weasel their way around them, or people compromising their reason to pander to their own prejudices and preconceptions, which they are so rarely competent to look in the face.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, People, Trying

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• Men are very competent in their workplace - and this is going to sound sexist - women are better at running households and juggling lots of things, kids and scheduling and that kind of thing.

  Patricia Heaton

  Running, Kids, Men

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• Zalasiewicz is convinced that even a moderately competent stratigrapher will, at the distance of a hundred million years or so, be able to tell that something extraordinary happened at the moment in time that counts for us as today. This is the case even though a hundred million years from now, all that we consider to be the great works of man—the sculptures and the libraries, the monuments and the museums, the cities and the factories—will be compressed into a layer of sediment not much thicker than a cigarette paper.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Distance, Men, Museums

  Elizabeth Kolbert (2014). “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History”, p.64, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Why do otherwise sane, competent, strong men, men who can wrestle bears or raid corporations, shrink away in horror at the thought of washing a dish or changing a diaper?

  Frank Pittman

  Strong, Men, Insecurity

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  Birth is about making mothers... strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength

  Barbara Katz Rothman

  Mother, Strong, Pregnancy

  Barbara Katz Rothman (2016). “A Bun in the Oven: How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization”, p.48, NYU Press

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• One may have a right to be unconventional and even eccentric, so long as one is fully competent and a decent person; but one's ideal as a professor should be to conduct oneself as an admirable human being: just, kind, tolerant, competent, committed, and good-humored.

  Robert Audi

  Teaching, Long, Unconventional

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• To give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization.
  g. to apportion farm lands and homesteads for these segregated persons where they would be taught to work under competent instructors for the period of their entire lives.

  Margaret Sanger

  Land, Giving, Choices

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• What's wrong with "the new elite?" Forget cultural insularity or smugness. The main problem with the "new elite" is that they're not an elite at all. That is, they aren't particularly smart, or competent.

  Glenn Reynolds

  Smart, Political, Smugness

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• The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well meaning.

  Brian Tracy

  Discipline, Doe, Very Good

  Twitter post from May 12, 2014

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• The State is competent to assign duties and draw the line between good and evil only in its immediate sphere. Beyond the limits of things necessary for its well-being, it can only give indirect help to fight the battle of life by promoting the influences which prevail against temptation--religion, education, and the distribution of wealth.

  Lord Acton

  Fighting, Evil, Giving

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.30, Jazzybee Verlag

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• So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Writing, People, Dying

  Flannery O'Connor (2014). “Mystery and Manners”, p.50, Faber & Faber

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• Anyone who has ever been able to sustain good work has had at least one person--and often many--who have believed in him or her. We just don't get to be competent human beings without a lot of different investments from others.

  Fred Rogers

  Different, Able, Investment

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.28, Penguin

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• By a man's finger-nails, by his coat-sleeve, by his boots, by his trouser-knees, by the callosities of his forefinger and thumb, by his expression, by his shirt-cuff — By each of these things a man's calling is plainly revealed. That all united should fail to enlighten the competent inquirer in any case is almost inconceivable. You know that a conjurer gets no credit when once he has explained his trick; and if I show you too much of my method of working, you will come to the conclusion that I am a very ordinary individual after all.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Book, Men, Expression

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