Incompetent Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• You should know how many incompetent men I had to compete with-in vain.

  Inge Lehmann

  Men, Ignorant People, Incompetence

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• The majority of problems on this planet are the result of the idea that humans are not sovereign and autonomous, but property owned by primitive Gods and incompetent governments.

  Christopher Hyatt

  Government, Ideas, Majority

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• Basil Fawlty was an easy character for me. For some reason, portraying a mean, uptight, incompetent bully comes naturally to me.

  John Cleese

  Character, Mean, Bully

  "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, 1997.

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• To start at a new place is always to feel incompetent & unwanted.

  Philip Larkin

  Feels, New Places, Unwanted

  Letter to Winifred Arnott, October 7, 1953.

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• On an otherwise normal Tuesday evening I had the chance to live the American Dream. I was able to throw my incompetent jackass of a boss from a fourteenth-story window.

  Larry Correia

  Dream, Tuesday, Boss

  Larry Correia (2015). “Monster Hunter International, Second Edition”, p.6, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• I have very little patience for ignorant, incompetent people who don’t care that they’re ignorant and incompetent.

  Tim Leffel

  People, Ignorant, Care

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• Gentlemen ... Do you not see that so long as society says a woman is incompetent to be a lawyer, minister or doctor, but has ample ability to be a teacher, that every man of you who chooses this profession tacitly acknowledges that he has no more brains than a woman?

  Susan B. Anthony

  Teacher, Men, Doctors

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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• On the roads of failure, it is not uncommon to see the tears of the talented; and in the land of success, to hear the victorious screams of the incompetent!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Success, Land, Tears

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• We have a president[Barack Obama] who doesn't have a clue. I would say he's incompetent, but I don't want to do that because that's not nice.

  Donald Trump

  Nice, President, Want

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I'm a creature of routine, and I hate feeling incompetent, so I avoided novelty and challenge. Making an effort to push myself in that way has brought me surprising boost.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Hate, Effort, Challenges

  "Slate Discussion: The Happiness Project". Online Chat, www.washingtonpost.com. January 15, 2009.

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• If you look at the Middle East, it's a blow up, it's a total disaster. We have an incompetent president [Barack Obama].

  Donald Trump

  Blow, President, Middle East

  Source: time.com

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