Competence Quotes

• Trust is a function of two things: character and competence. Character includes your integrity, your motive and your intent with people. Competence includes your capabilities, your skills, and your track record. Both are vital.

  Stephen Covey

  Integrity, Character, Skills

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• 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.

  Chris Hadfield

  Determination, Mean, Tasks

  Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.28, Pan Macmillan

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• If you want to be successful, don't seek success - seek competence, empowerment; do nothing short of the best that you can do.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Successful

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• By stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence.

  Michael J. Gelb

  Motivational, Track, Self Improvement

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• Everybody's got a different circle of competence. The important thing is not how big the circle is. The important thing is staying inside the circle.

  Warren Buffett

  Circles, Important, Different

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• The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Government, Political, Liberty

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• Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.

  Izaak Walton

  Being Thankful, Quiet, Conscience

  Izaak Walton (2013). “The Complete Angler”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• Competence is a great creator of confidence.

  Mary Jo Putney

  Creator

  Mary Jo Putney (2000). “The Burning Point”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• Of all the human qualities, the one I admire the most is competence. A tailor who is really able to cut and fit a coat seems to me an admirable man, and by the same token a university professor who knows little or nothing of the thing he presumes to teach seems to me to be a fraud and a rascal.

  H. L. Mencken

  Cutting, Men, University Professors

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.167, Knopf

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• "What would you call the highest happiness, Lewie?" he asked. "The sense of competence," was the answer, given without hesitation.

  John Buchan

  Happiness, Answers, Given

  "The Half-Hearted".

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• The test of true competence is the end result.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Tests, Ends, Results

  L. Ron Hubbard “The Way To Happiness”, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• There are three qualities a leader must exemplify to build trust: competence, connection, and character.

  John C. Maxwell

  Character, Leader, Quality

  John C. Maxwell “Leadership 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.

  Ayrton Senna

  Dedication, Idols, Professional Competence

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• One of the best uses of your time is to increase your competence in your key result areas.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspiration, Keys, Discipline

  Brian Tracy (1998). “Mastering Your Time”, p.13, Jaico Publishing House

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• The five C's of expanding your capacity.
  1. Build your confidence.
  2. Expand your connections.
  3. Improve your competence.
  4. Strengthen your character. If character is not strengthening your capacity is weakening. We need to check our leadership for leaks.
  5. Increase your commitment.

  Sheila Heen

  Commitment, Character, Connections

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• Remember, 'Rome was not built in a day.' Instant success is never possible. Competence results only from sustained, consistent, self-disciplined effort over an extended period of time.

  Bud Wilkinson

  Basketball, Self, Rome

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• Learn to do the common things uncommonly well.

  George Washington Carver

  Common, Achieving Success, Wells

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• Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence.

  Ron Suskind

  Faces, Action, Materials

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• 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 may.

  Jon Stewart

  Graduation, Fall, Age

  Commencement Address at The College of William & Mary, delivered 21 May 2004

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• To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education.

  John Dickey

  Creating, Use, Guides

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• Knowledge is great. Competence is great. But the combination of both encourages people to trust you and increases your powers of enchantment. And in this world, the combination is a breath of fresh air.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Air, People, Enchantment

  Guy Kawasaki (2011). “Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions”, p.53, Penguin

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• Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Happiness, Obscurity

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.27, St. Martin's Press

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• Look for competence not claims.

  Anthony de Mello

  Looks, Claims

  "One Minute Nonsense". Book by Anthony de Mello, p. 84, 1992.

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• ...true self-esteem comes from competence, not the other way around.

  Susan Cain

  Self Esteem, Way, True Self

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• Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.

  Tarja Halonen

  Problem, Inequality, Solve

  Tarja Halonen's speech at the opening of the Women of Learning exhibition in Helsinki, www.helsinki.fi. August 5, 2000.

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