Quotes about Competence

Ability is a poor man's wealth.

I learned that I could definitely play at a really high level and I definitely belong at this level.

There are two types of people. People who have accomplished things and people who have claimed to accomplish things. The first group is less crowded.

It is all very well to say that a man is clever, but the reader wants to see examples of it...

She had never done these things before; she did them expertly. She had a capacity for action, a competence that clashed incongruously with her appearance.

Francisco could do anything he undertook, he could do it better than anyone else, and he did it without effort. There was no boasting in his manner and consciousness, no thought of comparison. His attitude was not: "I can do it better than you," but simply: "I can do it." What he meant by doing was doing superlatively.

The code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a gold standard.

It was only in the first few years that she felt herself screaming silently, at times, for a glimpse of human ability, a single glimpse of clean, hard, radiant competence. She had fits of tortured longing for a friend or enemy with a mind better than her own.

she had always looked for sparks of competence, like a diamond prospector in an unpromising wasteland.

A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence.

All I want is the same thing you want. To have a nation with a government that is as good and honest and decent and competent and compassionate and as filled with love as are the American people.

As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.