Competent Quotes - Page 2

• I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to office-hugging, bone-idle types, to apathetic, disengaged automatons.

  Jo Brand

  Hard Work, Nurse, People

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• A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the judge enforces the proper courtroom procedures - a trial in which every assumption can be challenged.

  Harry Browne

  Judging, Trials, Assumption

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• It has long been apparent that many people in the media don't believe you're competent to make your own decisions.

  Harry Browne

  Believe, Media, Long

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• If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.

  Jacques Derrida

  Insecurity, Eccentric, Strange

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• There are actors who can pull of a writer's lines; I am not competent enough to do that.

  Salman Khan

  Actors, Lines, Enough

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• We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher.

  William Glasser

  Teacher, Retirement, Talking

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• Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow.

  David Attenborough

  People, Giving, Able

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• There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance.

  Russell Baker

  Writing, People, Literature

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• If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Humble, People, Would Be

  John Maynard Keynes (1952). “Essays in Persuasion”

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• It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art.

  Philip Pearlstein

  Meaningful, Art, Differences

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• The state is not competent in artistic matters... When the state leaves us free, it will have carried out its duty.

  Gustave Courbet

  Freedom, Matter, Artistic

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• It's an empirical question whether training makes one more or less likely to get in a fight outside the gym. In some ways, I'm probably more likely to get into a fight, because I feel more competent, and I know what it's cost me in the past to back down from fights, and I don't want to feel that way.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Fighting, Past, Training

  "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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• When you have some skills but don't fully understand your environment, there is no way you can be a plus one. At best, you can be a zero. But a zero isn't a bad thing to be. You're competent enough not to create problems or make more work for everyone else. And you have to be competent, and prove to others that you are, before you can be extraordinary. There are no short-cuts, unfortunately.

  Chris Hadfield

  Zero, Cutting, Skills

  Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.122, Pan Macmillan

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• The sincere artist is usually his own best critic, but continuous and prolonged work on one painting will sometimes dull his judgment... The critic is in demand, but he must be competent.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Artist, Demand, Dull

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

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Prayer, Successful, Today

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• Always surround yourself with people who are even more talented and competent than you.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, People, Surround Yourself

  Stephen M. R. Covey (2008). “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• Find people who are competent and really bright, but more importantly, people who care exactly about the same things you care about.

  Steve Jobs

  People, Who Cares, Care

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• I hate the whole übermensch, superman temptation that pervades science fiction. I believe no protagonist should be so competent, so awe-inspiring, that a committee of 20 really hard-working, intelligent people couldn't do the same thing.

  David Brin

  Hate, Believe, Hard Work

  "David Brin: Dialog With the Future". Locus Magazine Interview, www.locusmag.com. March 1997.

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• Good leaders, competent leaders must see it as primary task to create friendliness. This something within the scope of most people. Now artists, like writers and sort of course have an added option of using their scale and talent with this in view. It is their business to create an environment in which our people will prosper and be happy.

  Chinua Achebe

  Artist, Views, People

  Source: www.ehlingmedia.com

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• The truth is no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.

  Clifford Stoll

  Teacher, Government, Cds

  "The 5 Stages of Social Media Grief" by Brett King, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 22, 2010.

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• Women who are confident of their abilities are more likely to succeed than those who lack confidence, even though the latter may be much more competent and talented and industrious.

  Joyce Brothers

  Inspirational, May, Succeed

  Joyce Brothers (1985). “How to get whatever you want out of life”

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• Talent isn't as important as the work and dedication necessary to become competent.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Dedication, Important, Talent

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• As part of our ongoing series of reports on the environment, 'America Goes Green,' we take on the question that can make otherwise competent adults quake with fear. We've all been there. You come to the end of the checkout line and then comes that question: 'Paper or plastic?' For that one brief moment, we grocery buyers are made to feel like the fate of the planet hinges on our decision.

  Brian Williams

  Fate, America, Decision

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• Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent

  Robert Greene

  Success

  Twitter post from Sep 26, 2014

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• Any competent actor could have done what I did.

  Larry Hovis

  Insecurity, Actors, Done

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