Competent Quotes - Page 5

• The truth is no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.

  Clifford Stoll

  Teacher, Government, Cds

  "The 5 Stages of Social Media Grief" by Brett King, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 22, 2010.

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• Always surround yourself with people who are even more talented and competent than you.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, People, Surround Yourself

  Stephen M. R. Covey (2008). “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• To be any sort of competent writer one must keep one's psychological distance from the supreme artists.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Distance, Artist, Psychological

  Cynthia Ozick (1996). “A Cynthia Ozick Reader”, p.278, Indiana University Press

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• To separate from my culture (as from my family) I had to feel competent enough on the outside and secure enough inside to live life on my own. Yet in leaving home I did not lose touch with my origins because lo mexicano is in my system. I am a turtle, wherever I go I carry 'home' on my back.

  Gloria E. Anzaldúa

  Live Life, Home, Turtles

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• When you approach your baby with an attitude of respect, you let him know what you intend to do and give him a chance to respond. You assume he is competent and involve him in his care and let him, as much as possible, solve his own problems. You give him plenty of physical freedom and you don't push development.

  Magda Gerber

  Baby, Attitude, Giving

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• I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Enemy, Fool, Energetic

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• Any competent actor could have done what I did.

  Larry Hovis

  Insecurity, Actors, Done

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• Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent

  Robert Greene

  Success

  Twitter post from Sep 26, 2014

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• A strong life force can be seen in physical vitality, courage, competent judgment, self-mastery, sexual vigor, and the realization of each person's unique talents and purpose in life. To maintain a powerful life force, forget yourself, forget about living and dying, and bring your full attention into this moment.

  H. E Davey

  Strong, Powerful, Yoga

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• We live in a highly industrialized society and every member of the Black nation must be as academically and technologically developed as possible. To wage a revolution, we need competent teachers, doctors, nurses, electronics experts, chemists, biologists, physicists, political scientists, and so on and so forth. Black women sitting at home reading bedtime stories to their children are just not going to make it.

  Frances M. Beal

  Teacher, Children, Reading

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• Music is an extraordinary locksmith; it is so competent that it can open our soul's door even with closed eyes!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Music, Eye, Doors

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• Parents find many different ways to work their way through the assertiveness of their two-year-olds, but seeing that assertiveness as positive energy being directed toward growth as a competent individual may open up some new possibilities.

  Fred Rogers

  Years, Two Year Olds, Parent

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• Learn as much as you can about performing. Live theater, improv classes, music, stand up comedy, dance, anything to make yourself confident and comfortable in front of an audience. It'll all come in handy when auditioning for producers and performing with other actors. The best voice actors all have a live performance background. And are competent, fearless, incredibly creative actors.

  Rob Paulsen

  Class, Voice, Creative

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• From this day forward, Flight Control will be known by two words: "Tough" and "Competent." Tough means we are forever accountable for what we do or what we fail to do. We will never again compromise our responsibilities. Every time we walk into Mission Control we will know what we stand for. Competent means we will never take anything for granted. We will never be found short in our knowledge and in our skills.

  Gene Kranz

  Mean, Responsibility, Skills

  "Failure Is Not An Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond". Book by Gene Kranz, 2000.

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• Mission Control will be perfect. When you leave this meeting today you will go to your office and the first thing you will do there is to write "Tough and Competent" on your blackboards. It will never be erased. Each day when you enter the room these words will remind you of the price paid by Grissom, White, and Chaffee. These words are the price of admission to the ranks of Mission Control.

  Gene Kranz

  Writing, White, Safety

  "The Kranz Dictum". Gene Kranz's address to his branch and flight control team on the Monday morning following the Apollo 1 disaster, January 30, 1967.

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• Indeed there are many competent people who are plagued by a sense of inefficacy, and many less competent ones who remain unperturbed by impending threats because they are self-assured of their coping capabilities

  Albert Bandura

  Self, People, Coping

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• In the scientific community you find competent teachers and original researchers, just as in the musical community you find many good performers but very few good composers.

  Mario Bunge

  Teacher, Community, Musical

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• The new female is competent in all that she chooses. She chooses whatever her heart tells her. She can create a business, lead a country, drive a truck, hammer nails, deliver mail, or raise a family. She is at home in every social and physical environment. She can be a housewife, if she chooses. She can be anything else, too. She is intuitive and heart centered. She is all that a female has been, and more.

  Gary Zukav

  Country, Business, Home

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• I have seen competent leaders who stood in front of a platoon and all they saw was a platoon. But great leaders stand in front of a platoon and see it as 44 individuals, each of whom has aspirations, each of who wants to live, each of whom wants to do good.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Leadership, Want, Saws

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• Everything about it worked, and I don't mean just the movie, but in our experience, we realized there's also a component of luck involved in this business. We had absolutely the most competent people in the studio working on the release and ad campaign.

  David Zucker

  Business, Mean, People

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

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• Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered; and the diffusion of knowledge, so astonishing in the last half-century, has rendered innumerable minds, variously gifted by nature, competent to be competitors or fellow-workers on the theatre of intellectual operation.

  Daniel Webster

  Mind, Intellectual, Theatre

  Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple (2001). “The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster”, p.131, Beard Books

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• I will never become a horse trainer, a biologist, a person competent with a hammer. My loves were my loves.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Horse, Hammers, Trainers

  "Of Amplitude There Is No Scraping Bottom: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield". Interview with Rebecca Olson, tinhouse.com. March 16, 2015.

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• We have no paupers ... The great mass of our [United States] population is of laborers; our rich, who can live without labor, either manual or professional, being few, and of moderate wealth. Most of the laboring class possess property, cultivate their own lands, have families, and from the demand for their labor are enabled to exact from the rich and the competent such prices as enable them to be fed abundantly, clothed above mere decency, to labor moderately and raise their families. ... Can any condition of society be more desirable than this?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Land, Class, Demand

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• A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom. Just like right now with the whole mortgage crisis, I want to help people get back into their homes.

  Magic Johnson

  Home, Self, People

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• Talent isn't as important as the work and dedication necessary to become competent.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Dedication, Important, Talent

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