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Quotes about Competence

what became abundantly clear as soon as Sarah Palin stepped into the spotlight was that on just about every subject relevant to governing the country she had absolutely no idea what the hell she was talking about.
— Barack Obama
I was neither capable nor competent to form Christ in another person, to shape a life of discipleship in man, woman or child. That is supernatural work, and I am not supernatural. Mine was the more modest work of Scripture and prayer—helping people listen to God speak to them from the Scriptures and then joining them in answering God as personally and honestly as we could in lives of prayer.
— Eugene Peterson
My selection process is based on "three Cs": first character, then competence, and finally chemistry with me and with the rest of the team. Character. Competence. Chemistry.
— Bill Hybels
That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.
— JM Coetzee
You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don't think him competent.
— Dallas Willard
There are three qualities a leader must exemplify to build trust: competence, connection, and character.
— John Maxwell
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 Covey
It is astonishing with how little reading a doctor can practice medicine, but is not astonishing how badly he may do it.
— William Osler
We need to start evaluating people based on their abilities and not on their sex or other congenital characteristics.
— Ben Carson
We master the technique of our jobs.
— Steven Pressfield
Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.
— George Bernard Shaw
Almost seventy-five percent of our leaders have come right out of Willow. These are people who have proven their character, competence, and chemistry fit while serving in volunteer positions within our ministry.
— Bill Hybels