Quotes about Competence

Always try to be the very best that you can be. Learn from others, yes. But don't just try to be better than they are.

The way I played music there was the way I wanted to farm, chop wood, cook, make love, raise children. Everything. A lo of it had to do with things I felt while I played. If only I could feel that sense of total absorption in what I was doing when I was doing other things. It was more than absorption, it was spontaneity, competence, a sense of grace and playfulness, of being in touch with an inexhaustible source of energy and beauty.

I want to be perceived as a guy who played his best in all facets, not just scoring. A guy who loved challenges.

this was the fundamental hypothesis of the senior staff, shared by Walsh and everyone else: Trump must know what he was doing, his intuition must be profound.

The hard reality is that immersion works only when people are actually fluent in something.

Today any successful and competent businessman will employ the latest and best-tested methods in production, distribution, and administration, and many are discovering that one of the greatest of all efficiency methods is prayer power.

Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim that anything comes from us, but our competence comes from God.

I consider myself in no way inferior to those “super-apostles.”

even though clients require us to be competent enough to meet their needs, it is ultimately our honesty, humility, and selflessness that will endear us to them and allow them to trust and depend on us.

No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.