Competent Quotes - Page 4

• I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier.

  Miguel Ferrer

  Jobs, Thinking, Imagination

  Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Though, probably, no competent geologist would contend that the European classification of strata is applicable to the globe as a whole; yet most, if not all geologists, write as though it were so.

  Herbert Spencer

  Writing, Science, Europe

  "Illustrations of Universal Progress: A Series of Discussions".

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• ...Only physicians are likely to be regarded as competent to judge the qualifications of potential physicians, so licensing boards in the various states...are typically composed..of physicians,...members of the AMA. The boards, or the state legislatures...give the AMA the power to influence the number of persons admitted to practice (by) lengthy training,...(and) the list of 'approved' schools and hospitals (which) is generally identical with the list issued by the Council on Medical Education and Hospitals of the AMA.

  Milton Friedman

  School, Dark, Practice

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• There is a curious relationship between a candidate and the reporters who cover him. It can be affected by small things like a competent press staff, enough seats, sandwiches and briefings and the ability to understand deadlines.

  Ronald Steel

  Relationship, Sandwiches, Enough

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• Each day, it seemed, another law was passed to impoverish and diminish them, punishing them for whatever success they achieved and rewarding their less competent and industrious neighbors.

  L. Neil Smith

  Equality, Law, Each Day

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• The infinitely competent can be uncreative.

  John Edensor Littlewood

  Math, Mathematics, Mathematical

  John Edensor Littlewood, Béla Bollobás (1986). “Littlewood's Miscellany”, p.60, Cambridge University Press

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• Being competent means the ability to control and operate the things in the environment and the environment itself.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Mean, Environment, Ability

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• The analyses ... often become too competent to be comprehensible.

  Avinash Dixit

  Analysis, Economics

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• In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart. In dealing with others, be gentle and kind. In speech, be true. In ruling, be just. In daily life, be competent. In action, be aware of the time and the season.

  Laozi

  Heart, Land, Dwelling

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• Bullying consists of the least competent most aggressive employee projecting their incompetence on to the least aggressive most competent employee and winning.

  Tim Field

  Bullying, Winning, Incompetence

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• Our true destiny...is a world built from the bottom up by competent citizens living in solid communities, engaged in and by their places.

  David W. Orr

  Destiny, Community, Citizens

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• Music is an extraordinary locksmith; it is so competent that it can open our soul's door even with closed eyes!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Music, Eye, Doors

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• There are no physicists in the hottest parts of hell, because the existence of a hottest part implies a temperature difference, and any marginally competent physicist would immediately use this to run a heat engine and make some other part of hell comfortably cool. This is obviously impossible.

  Richard Davisson

  Running, Science, Differences

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• What the church should be telling the worker is that the first demand religion makes on him is that he should be a good workman. If he is a carpenter he should be a competent carpenter. Church by all means on Sundays-but what is the use of church if at the very center of life a man defrauds his neighbor and insults God by poor craftsmanship.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Life, Mean, Sunday

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• There is no trifling with nature; it is always true, grave, and severe; it is always in the light, and the faults and errors fall to our share. It defies incompetency, but reveals its secrets to the competent, the truthful, and the pure.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Fall, Errors

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• Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... so that never again can we have the chance to see ourselves single, separate, vertical and individual in the world, part of the environment of trees and rocks and soil, part of the natural world and competent to belong in it.

  Wallace Stegner

  Nature, Rocks, People

  Wallace Earle Stegner (2007). “The Selected Letters of Wallace Stegner”, Counterpoint

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• [Donald Trump] has confidence in Director [James] Comey. We have had a great relationship with him over the last several weeks. He's extremely competent.

  Reince Priebus

  Directors, Lasts, Great Relationship

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• From this day forward, Flight Control will be known by two words: "Tough" and "Competent." Tough means we are forever accountable for what we do or what we fail to do. We will never again compromise our responsibilities. Every time we walk into Mission Control we will know what we stand for. Competent means we will never take anything for granted. We will never be found short in our knowledge and in our skills.

  Gene Kranz

  Mean, Responsibility, Skills

  "Failure Is Not An Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond". Book by Gene Kranz, 2000.

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• Mission Control will be perfect. When you leave this meeting today you will go to your office and the first thing you will do there is to write "Tough and Competent" on your blackboards. It will never be erased. Each day when you enter the room these words will remind you of the price paid by Grissom, White, and Chaffee. These words are the price of admission to the ranks of Mission Control.

  Gene Kranz

  Writing, White, Safety

  "The Kranz Dictum". Gene Kranz's address to his branch and flight control team on the Monday morning following the Apollo 1 disaster, January 30, 1967.

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• Indeed there are many competent people who are plagued by a sense of inefficacy, and many less competent ones who remain unperturbed by impending threats because they are self-assured of their coping capabilities

  Albert Bandura

  Self, People, Coping

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• Games have been called the lab for the development of moral attributes, but they will not, of themselves, accomplish this purpose. They must be properly conducted by competent individuals.

  James Naismith

  Athlete, Games, Purpose

  James Naismith (1941). “Basketball: Its Origin and Development”, p.184, U of Nebraska Press

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• No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game. ... Galois died at twenty-one, Abel at twenty-seven, Ramanujan at thirty-three, Riemann at forty. There have been men who have done great work later; ... [but] I do not know of a single instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty. ... A mathematician may still be competent enough at sixty, but it is useless to expect him to have original ideas.

  G. H. Hardy

  Art, Science, Past

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• National security advisors, like White House Chiefs of Staff, their job generally if they`re - if they`re competent and qualified and effective is to be honest brokers in the White House.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Jobs, White, House

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Learn as much as you can about performing. Live theater, improv classes, music, stand up comedy, dance, anything to make yourself confident and comfortable in front of an audience. It'll all come in handy when auditioning for producers and performing with other actors. The best voice actors all have a live performance background. And are competent, fearless, incredibly creative actors.

  Rob Paulsen

  Class, Voice, Creative

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• Unfortunately for Hillary Clinton she's a competent politician, which means she seldom says anything in less than three paragraphs. So people like the guy who just goes, "Nuh-uh, no puppet, no puppet, you're the puppet."

  Joss Whedon

  Mean, People, Guy

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