Quotes about Competence

You can get by on charm for about 15 minutes. After that, you better know something.

Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.

This would be a great time in the world for some man to come along that knew something.

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

Perform your job better than anyone else can. That's the best job security I know.

Ultimately leadership boils down to a relationship. High-quality relationships are based on trust—trust of one anothers' competence as well as character.

Our understandable wish to preserve the planet must somehow be reduced to the scale of our competence - that is to wish to preserve all of its humble house - holds and neighbourhoods.

The strict competences of independence, the formal mastery, the complexities of attitude and know-how necessary to life on the farm, which have been in the making in the race of farmers since before history, all are replaced by the knowledge of some fragmentary task that may be learned by rote in a little while.

But the safe competence of human work extends no further, ever, than our ability to think and love at the same time.

We must also realize-students, teachers, and laymen alike-that even when we have accomplished the task that lies before us, we will not have accomplished the whole task. We must be more than a nation of functional literates. We must become a nation of truly competent readers, recognizing all that the word competent implies. Nothing less wil satisfy the needs of the world that is coming.

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

There's this really awesome theory of human motivation - that human beings all want three things. One is to be competent, one is to belong, and one is be free, as in to have choice: to not be told what to do but to choose what to do.