Competent Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• ... we know that productivity suffers when uncertainty is high. But we've failed to realize the equally destructive effects of too little anxiety. ... By protecting people from risk, we destroy their self-esteem. We rob them of the opportunity to become strong, competent people.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Strong, Self Esteem, Opportunity

  Judith M. Bardwick (1995). “Danger in the Comfort Zone: From Boardroom to Mailroom--how to Break the Entitlement Habit That's Killing American Business”, p.32, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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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 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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• Brant's an idealist, and he's competent. There are few more dangerous combinations in this world... Heroes are even more dangerous than idealists.

  Patricia C. Wrede

  Hero, World, Combination

  Patricia C. Wrede (2010). “Thirteenth Child”, p.129, Scholastic Inc.

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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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• The roots of a child's ability to cope and thrive, regardless of circumstance, lie in that child's having had at least a small, safe place (an apartment? a room? a lap?) in which, in the companionship of a loving person, that child could discover that he or she was lovable and capable of loving in return. If a child finds this during the first years of life, he or she can grow up to be a competent, healthy person.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Growing Up, Lying

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Many Ways to Say I Love You: Wisdom for Parents and Children from Mister Rogers”, Hyperion

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• Traditionally, women have a lot of different roles in society. It is very difficult to balance all these roles and at the same time to compete with men. A leading, successful woman has to put in much bigger efforts to be more competent and faster, more dynamic and organized, than a successful man.

  Dalia Grybauskaite

  Successful, Men, Effort

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• There is but one way to eliminate juvenile delinquency - that is by providing each child in America with competent parents.

  J. Edgar Hoover

  Children, America, Parent

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• There are a lot of things that make players really good coaches. Whether you've played in the NBA or not, there are certain things you have to master and be really good at. They just have to be gifted in these areas. You've got to be competent. Secondly, you've got to be able to communicate. You can have a picture in your mind on how to score but if you can't communicate it, if you can't teach it, what good is it? You've got to be brutally honest and be a man of strong character and then you've got to have class. They've got to respect you.

  Avery Johnson

  Strong, Character, Player

  "A conversation with New Jersey Nets head coach Avery Johnson". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Service makes men competent.

  Lyman Abbott

  Men

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• The sinner is at the heart of Christianity. No one is as competent as the sinner in matters of Christianity. No one, except a saint.

  Charles Peguy

  Heart, Saint, Matter

  "Basic Verities, Prose and Poetry". Book by Charles Péguy. "Un Nouveau théologien" (1911), 1943.

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• By closely supervising our infants, by allowing them to do what they are capable of, by restraining ourselves from rescuing them too often, by waiting and waiting and waiting, by giving minimal help when they really need it, we allow our infants to learn and grow at their own time and in their own way. I believe that, no matter how much and how fast the world changes, a well-grounded, competent, and confident person is best equipped to adapt to it. This is our goal.

  Magda Gerber

  Believe, Giving, Goal

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• I believe there's something in the Bible about 'Thou shalt not call anyone insane who owns and is competent with more firearms than you own sharp sticks.'

  Andrew Plotkin

  Believe, Insane, Sticks

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• It is possible that the percentage of honest and competent whores is higher than that of plumbers and much higher than that of lawyers. And enormously higher than that of professors.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Education, Honest, Lawyer

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.325, Penguin

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• The more intelligent and competent a woman is in her adult life, the less likely she is to have received an adequate amount of romantic attention in adolescence.

  Susan Jacoby

  Sex, Intelligent, Adults

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• No member of the faithful could possibly deny that the Church is competent in her magisterium to interpret the natural moral law.

  Pope Paul VI

  Law, Faithful, Church

  "Humanae Vitae". Pope Paul VI 's Encyclical Letter on the regulation of birth, w2.vatican.va. July 25, 1968.

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• Have you ever noticed when you look in a mirror, unless youre really depressed or something, the person in the mirror generally looks a little more competent, a little more curious, a little more intelligent than you actually feel yourself to be? They often look more interesting and more soulful.

  Gregory Maguire

  Intelligent, Mirrors, Interesting

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• No man is competent unless he can stalk alone and armed in the wilderness.

  Townsend Whelen

  Men, Wilderness, Stalking

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• The more we give importance to skill development, the more competent will be our youth.

  Narendra Modi

  Skills, Giving, India

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• You've learned the lessons well. You first learned to live on less than you earn. Next you learned to seek advice from those who are competent. Lastly, you've learned to make gold work for you.

  George S. Clason

  Advice, Gold, Lessons

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• I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.

  Natascha McElhone

  Logic, Hopeless, Humans

  "This much I know: Natascha McElhone". Interview with Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2011.

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