Competence Quotes

Learn to do the common things uncommonly well.

First be a magnificent artist and then you can do whatever, but the art must be first.

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

Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence.

Confidence is the public face of competence.

No competence is required to be a scarecrow!

No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence.

To know one's own limitations is the hallmark of competence.

It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.

Train yourself: It is not by accident an artist becomes a good painter.

The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.

There are, it is true, at present no great prizes in literature such as are offered by the learned professions, but there are quite as many small ones - competences; while, on the other hand, it is not so much of a lottery.

Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.

Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.

Competence is a great creator of confidence.

Choose a challenge instead of competence

Maturity is largely about acquiring the confidence and the competence to make your own decisions.

It reflects no great honour on a painter to be able to execute one thing well.

Look for competence not claims.

I will not enter into a public feud with Madame Callas, since I am well aware that she has considerably greater competence and experience at that kind of thing than I have.

Churches often confuse loyalty with competence.

Leadership shows judgment, wisdom, personal appeal and proven competence.

Epistemic competence might be posterior to knowledge conceptually, however, while still prior metaphysically.

True competence is based on one’s own ability to observe.

Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.

When you dream, your perceptual (and other) competence is affected. You are then unable to get it right competently with the beliefs in your dream.

Competence is no longer a scarce commodity.

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

Competence is no longer scarce.

Friendships are nice. So is competence.

Competence is the enemy of change!

Competence was attractive.

If we have a strength, it is in recognizing when we are operating well within our circle of competence and when we are approaching the perimeter.

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

The RNC was run so badly you could walk through their deepest competence and not get your ankles wet.

The Central Bank has a lot to handle and it is best not to interfere with its competence.

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

When your confidence goes up, your competence goes up the same time.

In hospitals I feel palpable comfort. I feel the competence, the expertise, so much education and money, all of the supplies sterile, everything packaged, sealed tight. My fears evaporate when the automatic doors shush open.

Suffering dispels the illusion that we have the strength and competence to rule our own lives and save ourselves.

Our campaign is the opposite of 'competence.'

I do love competence in a man.

Creativity is not a substitute for competence.

Success is better than failure; an attempt is a better attempt, it is better as an attempt, if competent than if incompetent; and it is better to succeed through competence - aptly - than through sheer luck.