60 Best Competence Quotes And Sayings
Competence is the ability to do something successfully or efficiently.
1. Success demands a high level of logistical and organizational competence.
George S. Patton
2. Love what you do. Get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age. And let the chips fall where they man
Jon Stewart
3. There's a lot more to competence than a law degree and a modicum of courtroom skill.
Fred Thompson
4. First you achieve your competence. Use your talent and believe in yourselves. Things will happen. But you have to believe that nothing is impossible,” said Silva to a group of training partners later in the clip. “Nobody is here only to be a sparring partner. You are not here to be anybody’s punching bag. We are here to help each other.
Without you I would not be champion. And with me you will get farther than without me. So we’re here for each other
Anderson Silva
5. Choose a challenge instead of competence.
Eleanor Roosevelt
6. But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.
John Cleese
7. Competence Brings Confidence
Anonymous
8. To be a manager requires more than a title, a big office, and other outward symbols of rank. It requires competence and performance of a high order
Peter Drucker
9. One of the best uses of your time is to increase your competence in your key result areas.
Brian Tracy
10. Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
Laurence J. Peter
11. Diligence Leads to Competence.
Jeffrey Benjamin
12. Leadership shows judgment, wisdom, personal appeal and proven competence.
Walt Disney
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13. The oldest problem in economic education is how to exclude the incompetent. A certain glib mastery of verbiage-the ability to speak portentously and sententiously about the relation of money supply to the price level-is easy for the unlearned and may even be aided by a mildly enfeebled intellect. The requirement that there be ability to master difficult models, including ones for which mathematical competence is required, is a highly useful screening device.
John Kenneth Galbraith
14. Competence is a great creator of confidence.
Mary Jo Putney
15. In Islam, the legislative power and competence to establish laws belong exclusively to God Almighty.
Ruhollah Khomeini
16. Trust has two dimensions: competence and integrity. We will forgive mistakes of competence. Mistakes of integrity are harder to overcome
Simon Sinek
17. I've reached the age where competence is a turn-on.
Billy Joel
18. You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.
Doug Coupland
19. Competence is no longer a scarce commodity
Anonymous
20. There's a lot more to competence than a law degree and a modicum of courtroom skill.
Fred Thompson
21. Practice is related to competence and qualification and includes cognitive, affective, personal and social factors
Anonymous
22. Competence is the enemy of change!
Seth Godi
23. Performance Competence is the ability to Perform Tasks to Produce Outputs to Stakeholder Requirements
Anonymous
24. Competence is the ability to detect and satisfy the personal tastes of your superiors.
Laurence J. Peter
25. To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education.
John Dickey
26. Competence goes beyond words. It’s the leader’s ability to say it, plan it, and do it in such a way that others know that you know how – and know that they want to follow you.
John C. Maxwell
27. Churches often confuse loyalty with competence.
Phil Cooke
28. I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.
Ayrton Senna
29.Look for competence not claims.
Anthony de Mello
30. When your confidence goes up, your competence goes up the same time.
Zig Ziglar
31. Competence is such a rare bird in these woods that I appreciate it whenever I see it.
Frank Underwood
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32. If you think you can do something, that's confidence. If you can do it, that's competence
Anonymous
33. The most important thing in terms of your circle of competence is not how large the area of it is, but how well you’ve defined the perimeter.
Warren Buffett
34. So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.
Flannery O'Connor
35. Building a business and becoming a billionaire is it’s not championship. It’s the competence; the competence in your sector with other companies not looking to have some kind of records in this issue.
Carlos Slim
36. A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence.
Stephen Covey
37. An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular competence.
Irving Kristol
38. What will matter is not your competence, but your character. What will matter is not how many people you knew but how many will feel a lasting loss when you’re gone
Anonymous
39. To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education
Anonymous
40. Men and women known for their honesty, integrity and competence.
Lakhdar Brahimi
41. Compliance starts with understanding, and understanding starts with cultural competence
Anonymous
42. These are days when no one should rely unduly on his competence. Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.
Walter Benjamin
43. Every discipline develops standards of professional competence to which its workers are subject… Every scientific community is a society in the small, so to speak, with its own agencies of social control.
Abraham Kaplan
44. If people could climb higher in the social hierarchy in proportion to their incompetence, I guarantee the world would not go round the way it does. But that’s not even the problem. What his sentence means isn’t that incompetent people have found their place in the sun, but that nothing is harder or more unfair than human reality: humans live in a world where it’s words and not deeds that have power, where the ultimate skill is mastery of language
Muriel Barbery
45. The test of true competence is the end result.
L. Ron Hubbard
46. Perhaps there is no other knowing than the mere competence of the act. If at the heart of one’s being, there is no self to which one ought to be true, then sincerity is simply nerve; it lies in the unabashed vigor of the pretense. But pretense is only pretense when it is assumed that the act is not true to the agent. Find the agent.
Alan Watts
47. I do love competence in a man.
Katharine Weber
48. Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust authority to a person who has shown judgment, wisdom, personal appeal, and proven competence
Walt Disney
49. Competence means keeping your head in a crisis, sticking with a task even when it seems hopeless, and improvising good solutions to tough problems when every second counts. It encompasses ingenuity, determination and being prepared for anything. Astronauts have these qualities not because we’re smarter than everyone else (though let’s face it, you do need a certain amount of intellectual horsepower to be able to fix a toilet). It’s because we are taught to view the world—and ourselves—differently. My shorthand for it is “thinking like an astronaut.” But you don’t have to go to space to learn to do that. It’s mostly a matter of changing your perspective
Chris Hadfield
50. … by stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence.
Michael Gelb
51. Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.
Peggy Noonan
52. No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence.
William Glasser
53. Obscurity and competence That is the life that is worth living.
Mark Twain
54. Trust is equal parts character and competence… You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other.
Stephen M.R. Cove
55. It’s not a lack of competence that is preventing the[Barack] Obama administration from stopping these attacks. It is political correctness. We didn’t monitor the Facebook posting of the female San Bernardino terrorist. She made a public call to jihad, and they didn’t target it.
Ted Cruz
56. To know one's own limitations is the hallmark of competence.
Dorothy L. Sayers
57. The adventure is always and everywhere a passage beyond the veil of the known into the unknown; the powers that watch at the boundary are dangerous; to deal with them is risky; yet for anyone with competence and courage the danger fades.
Joseph Campbell
58. Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.
Izaak Walton
59. The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
60. To address questions of scientific responsibility does not necessarily imply that one needs technical competence in a particular field (e.g. biology) to evaluate certain technical matters.
Serge Lang