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First be a magnificent artist and then you can do whatever, but the art must be first.
Francisco Goya
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People differ not only in their ability to do but also in their 'will to do'.
Paul Hersey
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Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence.
Ron Suskind
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Confidence is the public face of competence.
Ron Suskind
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No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence.
William Glasser
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It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.
Ramana Maharshi
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Train yourself: It is not by accident an artist becomes a good painter.
Sergei Bongart
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The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.
Laurence J. Peter
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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.
James Payn
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Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.
Tarja Halonen
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Maturity is largely about acquiring the confidence and the competence to make your own decisions.
Susan Maushart
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It reflects no great honour on a painter to be able to execute one thing well.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.
Izaak Walton
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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.
Rudolf Bing
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Churches often confuse loyalty with competence.
Phil Cooke
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Leadership shows judgment, wisdom, personal appeal and proven competence.
Walt Disney
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Epistemic competence might be posterior to knowledge conceptually, however, while still prior metaphysically.
Ernest Sosa
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True competence is based on one’s own ability to observe.
L. Ron Hubbard
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The Central Bank has a lot to handle and it is best not to interfere with its competence.
Vladimir Putin
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Competence is a narrow ideal. Competence makes the trains run on time but doesn't know where they're going.
George H. W. Bush
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When your confidence goes up, your competence goes up the same time.
Zig Ziglar
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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.
Dave Eggers
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Suffering dispels the illusion that we have the strength and competence to rule our own lives and save ourselves.
Timothy Keller
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Creativity is not a substitute for competence.
Mason Cooley
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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.
Ernest Sosa
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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.
Ernest Sosa
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Competence is no longer a scarce commodity.
Seth Godin
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Absolute size by itself is no indicator of success and achievement, let alone of managerial competence. Being the right size is.
Peter Drucker
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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.
Warren Buffett
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The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.
Ada Louise Huxtable
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The RNC was run so badly you could walk through their deepest competence and not get your ankles wet.
John Fund