Competence Quotes - Page 6

• Here's my theory about meetings and life: the three things you can't fake are erections, competence and creativity.

  Douglas Coupland

  Creativity, Fake, Three

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “JPod”, p.151, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Managing innovation will increasingly become a challenge to management, and especially to top management, and a touchstone of its competence.

  Peter Drucker

  Top Management, Challenges, Innovation

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.149, Routledge

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• No competence is required to be a scarecrow!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Scarecrow

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• Our confidence...is not in the competence of our own knowing, but in the faithfulness and reliability of the one who is known.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Knowing, Reliability, Faithfulness

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• Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Light, Defeat, Now And Then

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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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• Men are not rich or poor according to what they possess but to what they desire. The only rich man is he that with content enjoys a competence.

  Roger Chamberlain

  Men, Rich Or Poor, Desire

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• People value honesty. They value integrity. They value competence and courage and all those kinds of things.

  Richard A. Kidd

  Honesty, Integrity, Army

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• What matters most: passion or competence that was born in? Berkshireis full of people who have a peculiar passion for their own business. I would argue passion is more important than brain power.

  Charlie Munger

  Passion, What Matters, People

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• The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  New York, Computer

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• All conversation, in addition to whatever else it does, displays, and asks for recognition of, our competence.

  Deborah Tannen

  Doe, Recognition, Conversation

  Deborah Tannen (1986). “That's not what I meant!: how conversational style makes or breaks your relations with others”, William Morrow & Co

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• There is no more critical indicator of the future of a society than the character, competence, and integrity of its youth.

  Urie Bronfenbrenner

  Integrity, Character, Youth

  Urie Bronfenbrenner (1996). “The State of Americans: This Generation and the Next”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• If you have competence, you pretty much know its boundaries already. To ask the question (of whether you are past the boundary) is to answer it.

  Charlie Munger

  Knowledge, Past, Answers

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• An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular competence.

  Irving Kristol

  Men, Intellectual, May

  Irving Kristol (1995). “Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• People differ not only in their ability to do but also in their 'will to do'.

  Paul Hersey

  People, Ability

  Paul Hersey, Kenneth H. Blanchard, Dewey E. Johnson (2008). “Management of Organizational Behavior: Leading Human Resources”, Prentice Hall

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• Competence is a narrow ideal. Competence makes the trains run on time but doesn't know where they're going.

  George H. W. Bush

  Running, Ideals, Knows

  1988 Republican National Convention Acceptance Address, delivered 18 August 1988, Superdome, New Orleans, LA

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• Trust is equal parts character and competence... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other.

  Stephen Covey

  Character, Looks, Equal

  Stephen R. Covey, Rebecca R. Merrill (2008). “The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• Our campaign is the opposite of 'competence.'

  William J. Clinton

  Opposites, Campaigns

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• Jesus cares more about desire than about competence

  Mike Yaconelli

  Jesus, Desire, Care

  Mike Yaconelli (2009). “Messy Spirituality”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• I've reached the age where competence is a turn-on.

  Billy Joel

  Inspirational, Competition, Age

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• If you have competence, you know the edge. It wouldnt be a competence if you didnt know where the boundaries lie. Asking whether youve passed the boundary is a question that almost answers itself.

  Charlie Munger

  Lying, Asking, Answers

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• I do love competence in a man.

  Katharine Weber

  Men

  Katharine Weber (2011). “The Music Lesson: A Novel”, p.23, Crown

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• In today’s work arena, creativity may be more of an asset than competence.

  Dan Miller

  Creativity, May, Today

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• Absolute size by itself is no indicator of success and achievement, let alone of managerial competence. Being the right size is.

  Peter Drucker

  Achievement, Size, Indicators

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

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• Men were created for something better than merely to make money. A close application to business, until a competence is gained, is one of the chief virtues; but to continue in trade long after this result is obtained, is one of the signs, not to be mistaken, of a sordid and ignoble nature.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Money, Men, Long

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