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Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
Robert Greene
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Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up the wrecks from less competent people.
Andrew Mellon
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There is nothing miraculous about puzzles. Competent mentalism is miraculous.
Max Maven
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I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
Benazir Bhutto
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Seek advice from those who are competent through their own experience and success to give it.
George S. Clason
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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.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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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.
Jerry West
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I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
Vikram Seth
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I would rather have a competent extremist than an incompetent moderate.
Leon Jaworski
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Having talent isn't merely about being competent; confidence is actually a part of that talent.
Claire Shipman
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The analyses ... often become too competent to be comprehensible.
Avinash Dixit
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Government is not competent enough to regulate.
James Cook
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Competent people are the most resistant to change
Seth Godin
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Reengineering cannot be entrusted to the semi-competent, the hangers-on with nothing better to do.
Michael Martin Hammer
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I fancy myself as being a fairly competent person.
Lisa Ling
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When you smile you don't only appear to be more likable and courteous, you appear to be more competent.
Ron Gutman
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Even if I disagree with Obama on many, many things, he is certainly qualified to be president. He is certainly competent to be president.
Penn Jillette
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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.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe