Incompetent Quotes - Page 8

• As ever with modern Britain, we are let down by a vast, over-manned, over-funded, hidebound, obstructive, box-ticking and incompetent bureaucracy.

  Frederick Forsyth

  Let Down, Modern, Boxes

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• We are not evil, inadequate or incompetent when our relationships fail.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Evil, Failing, Our Relationship

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• God is either cruel or incompetent.

  Woody Allen

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• Liberals go straight to ugly racist stereotypes when attacking conservative blacks, calling them oversexualized, stupid and/or incompetent.

  Ann Coulter

  Stupid, Racist, Calling

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• [The media's] fantasy of an America bristling with racists allows them to portray any criticism of our massively incompetent and dangerous president as just another sad episode of oh-so-typical white racism.

  Ann Coulter

  Media, White, America

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• Maybe a vague president and an incompetent and somewhat corrupt administration is what the nation needs.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  President, Needs, Administration

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.29, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Our government has become incompetent, unresponsive, corrupt. And that incompetence, ineptitude, lack of accountability is now dangerous.

  Carly Fiorina

  Government, Accountability, Ineptitude

  "The Fix 5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant". www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• I look at Woody Allen's prolific career of 30 or 40 films, and I'm watching the clock. I'd love to work at a clip of a film a year. We don't get the benefit of the doubt, particularly black women. We're presumed incompetent, whereas a white male is assumed competent until proven otherwise. They just think the guy in the ball hat and the T-shirt over the thermal has got it, whether he's got it or not. For buzzy first films by a white male, the trajectory is a 90-degree angle. For us, it's a 30-degree angle.

  Dee Rees

  Thinking, Years, Careers

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• I.Q. deficiency. There are some people who are an order of fries short of a Happy Meal, and what is often a characteristic about every one of these people is that they don't know it. They have no idea how incompetent or stupid they are. It's the exact opposite. They have the loftiest, highest self-image.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stupid, Self, Order

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• How do I change? If I feel depressed I will sing. If I feel sad I will laugh. If I feel ill I will double my labor. If I feel fear I will plunge ahead. If I feel inferior I will wear new garments. If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice. If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come. If I feel incompetent I will think of past success. If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals. Today I will be the master of my emotions.

  Og Mandino

  Sad, Past, Thinking

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• Obviously somebody had been appallingly incompetent and he hoped to God it wasn't him.

  Douglas Adams

  Incompetence

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.12, Pan Macmillan

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• He was, he would be the first to admit, a coward, an incompetent, and not even very good at being a failure.

  Terry Pratchett

  Coward, Would Be, Firsts

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• Cosmic evolution may teach us how the good and evil tendencies of man may have come about; but, in itself, it is incompetent to furnish any better reason why what we call good is preferable to what we call evil than we had before. Some day, I doubt not, we shall arrive at an understanding of the evolution of the aesthetic faculty; but all the understanding in the world will neither increase nor diminish the force of the intuition that this is beautiful and that is ugly.

  Thomas Huxley

  Beautiful, Men, Evil

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.80, Cambridge University Press

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• I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.

  William Allen White

  Age, Aging, Form

  William Allen White (1937). “Forty Years on Main Street”

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• Whether the teacher is authoritarian, undisciplined, competent, incompetent, serious, irresponsible, involved, a lover of people and of life, cold, angry with the world, bureaucratic, excessively rational, or whatever else, he/she will not pass through the classroom without leaving his or her mark on the students.

  Paulo Freire

  Teacher, Teaching, People

  Paulo Freire (2000). “Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage”, p.64, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• I have been almost overwhelmed by the announcement of the sad event [Lincoln's assassination] which has so recently occurred. I feel incompetent to perform duties so important and responsible as those which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.

  Andrew Johnson

  Important, Events, Overwhelmed

  Inaugural Address. Sunday Morning Chronicle, Washington, www.gutenberg.org. April 16, 1865.

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• The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage.

  William Stewart Halsted

  Science, Medicine, Weapons

  Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital 23: 191 (1912)

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• What worries me is that we are increasingly enmeshed in incompetent systems, that is, systems that exhibit pathological behaviour but cant fix themselves.

  John Naughton

  Worry, Behaviour, Exhibits

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• You know, the cure for all this talk is really a good dose of incompetent government. You get that alternative and you'll never put Singapore together again: Humpty Dumpty cannot be put together again... my asset values will disappear, my apartments will be worth a fraction of what they were, my ministers' jobs will be in peril, their security will be at risk and their women will become maids in other people's countries, foreign workers.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Country, Jobs, Together Again

  Straits Times, April 5, 2007.

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• Reason is incompetent to answer any fundamental question about God, or morality, or the meaning of life.

  Carl L. Becker

  Meaning Of Life, Fundamentals, Answers

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• Any dictatorship would be better than modern democracy. There cannot be so incompetent a dictator, that he would show more stupidity than a majority of the people. Best dictatorship would be one where lots of heads would roll and government would prevent any economical growth.

  Pentti Linkola

  Government, People, Stupidity

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• The more I was treated as a woman, the more woman I became. A adapted willy-nilly. If I was assumed to be incompetent at reversing cars, or opening bottles, oddly incompetent I found myself becoming. If a case was thought too heavy for me, inexplicably I found it so myself.

  Jan Morris

  Car, Bottles, Becoming

  Jan Morris (2011). “Conundrum”, p.166, Faber & Faber

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• Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer.

  H. Beam Piper

  Prayer, Waiting, Apathy

  H. Beam Piper (2010). “A Slave Is a Slave”, p.5, eStar Books

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• It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.

  Charles E. Sorensen

  Wisdom, Clogging Up, Organization

  Charles E. Sorensen, Samuel T. Williams (2006). “My Forty Years with Ford”, p.51, Wayne State University Press

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• Go the extra mile. It makes your boss look like an incompetent slacker.

  Stephen Hawking

  Boss, Looks, Miles

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