Competent Quotes

Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent

Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up the wrecks from less competent people.

There is nothing miraculous about puzzles. Competent mentalism is miraculous.

I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.

Seek advice from those who are competent through their own experience and success to give it.

The future belongs to the competent

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

I was not a great ballhandler. I just worked very hard at it, and I got to be a good ballhandler-a competent ballhandler-but never a great ballhandler.

Competition is for the competent.

The analyses ... often become too competent to be comprehensible.

I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.

I would rather have a competent extremist than an incompetent moderate.

Having talent isn't merely about being competent; confidence is actually a part of that talent.

Government is not competent enough to regulate.

I fancy myself as being a fairly competent person.

You know, I'm really not that competent at describing things musically.

When you smile you don't only appear to be more likable and courteous, you appear to be more competent.

Service makes men competent.

Even if I disagree with Obama on many, many things, he is certainly qualified to be president. He is certainly competent to be president.

No man is competent to manage another.

Properly speaking, we learn from those books only that we cannot judge. The author of a book that I am competent to criticise would have to learn from me.

Competent people are the most resistant to change

Reengineering cannot be entrusted to the semi-competent, the hangers-on with nothing better to do.