Competence Quotes - Page 3

• The guy may be totally motivated, connected and inspired, but if he doesn't know how to do it, he's not the guy to take out your appendix.

  Robert Genn

  Guy, May, Inspired

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• And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an outside will? When we are told to deny our senses and subject them to the whim of others? When people devoid of whatsoever competence are made judges over experts and are granted authority to treat them as they please? These are the novelties which are apt to bring about the ruin of commonwealths and the subversion of the state.

  Galileo Galilei

  Math, People, Judging

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• But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.

  John Cleese

  Fake People, Acting, Very Good

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• To address questions of scientific responsibility does not necessarily imply that one needs technical competence in a particular field (e.g. biology) to evaluate certain technical matters.

  Serge Lang

  Responsibility, Doe, Needs

  Serge Lang (2012). “Challenges”, p.243, Springer Science & Business Media

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• That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Thinking, People, Stories

  Interview with David Attwell, www.dn.se. December 8, 2003.

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• The Commission has five commissioners from each side, plus three alternates, so all together sixteen members, people who are independent from the two governments, who have a lot of integrity, professional competence, and who have credibility in their respective countries.

  Jose Ramos-Horta

  Country, Integrity, Independent

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• Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

  Allan Bloom

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Wise

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• 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 Payn

  Hands, Literature, Profession

  James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”

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• The U.N. has been so disappointing to date on the whole Rwanda issue that despite the people they've sent through, and I have no doubt their competence, in the end, the decision is going to be made by other people and not by them.

  Tony Greig

  Issues, People, Decision

  "Investigator details charges". "NBC News Investigates", www.nbcnews.com. December 2, 2004.

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• It does not matter what party you are a member of in this great Nation of ours. Accountability and competence are characteristics that Americans value throughout our great land.

  Jim Costa

  Party, Land, Accountability

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• In every union roles are assumed, some traditional, some not. My husband used to pay his own bills, I used to call my own repairman. But as marriages progress, you surrender areas of your own competence, often without even knowing it.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Husband, Knowing, Progress

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• I dislike a picture that is too suave or too skilfully done. But, contrariwise, I also dislike a picture that looks too inept or blundering.

  Robert Motherwell

  Looks, Done, Suave

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• It reflects no great honour on a painter to be able to execute one thing well.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Able, Painter, Wells

  Leonardo da Vinci (2015). “A Treatise on Painting: the Painting Art”, p.55, 谷月社

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• Great writers zealously learn the craft of their profession so they can release the power and the depth of their imagination and experience.

  Leonard Bishop

  Imagination, Depth, Crafts

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• Dramatic use of color, harmonious design, the interplay of light and shadow across a variety of textures, the portrayal of the figure and other subject matter that reflects the sophistication and beauty I find in nature - all presented from a unique point of view - can only be successfully achieved with a sound command of the painter's craft... history will determine how successful I have been.

  Nelson Shanks

  Successful, Unique, Light

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• A good landscape painting is not just a demonstration of competent application of paint. It must offer a feeling of homage to the subject.

  Keith Shackleton

  Feelings, Landscape Painting, Demonstration

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• Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Children, Enormous

  "Cosmography: A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity". Book by Buckminster Fuller, 1992.

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• The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Country, Rights, People

  "Senator Feinstein Supports Stronger Military Via Bill to End 'Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell'" by Craig Newmark, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 4, 2010.

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• These are days when no one should rely unduly on his competence. Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.

  Walter Benjamin

  Life, Lying, Blow

  Walter Benjamin (2016). “One-Way Street”, p.35, Harvard University Press

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• First be a magnificent artist and then you can do whatever, but the art must be first.

  Francisco Goya

  Art, Firsts, Magnificent

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• Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate. It will purge the rottenness out of the system. High costs of living and high living will come down. People will work harder, live a more moral life. Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up from less competent people.

  Andrew Mellon

  Real, Live Life, Hard Work

  "The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover - The Great Depression, 1929-1941". Book by Herbert Hoover, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1951.

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

  Douglas Coupland

  Creativity, Fake, Arousal

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• When your team questions your competence, your ability to influence is shot.

  John Fairclough

  Team, Influence, Shots

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• A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula.

  H. L. Mencken

  Artist, Trying, Incompetence

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.564, Vintage

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• Omnicompetence,' the ability to obtain whatever one wants or needs, is an unattainable but continuously approachable ideal for all mankind - past, present, and future.

  Russell L. Ackoff

  Past, Needs, Unattainable

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