Quotes about Competence

The world cares little about what a man knows;it cares more about what a man is able to do.

This does not mean that the knowledge of the world, church history, theology, philosophy, and the Scriptures is without value. Such knowledge can be very useful.[105] But it is not central. Theological competence and a high-voltage intellect alone do not qualify a person to serve in God's house.

Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in God.

Doing a job RIGHT the first time gets the job done. Doing the job WRONG fourteen times gives you job security.

Mediocre is merely a failed attempt to be really good.

The business model should be such that the employees needed possess the lowest possible level of skill necessary to fulfill the functions for which each is intended.

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Ability is a poor man's wealth.

There are two types of people. People who have accomplished things and people who have claimed to accomplish things. The first group is less crowded.

It is all very well to say that a man is clever, but the reader wants to see examples of it...

She had never done these things before; she did them expertly. She had a capacity for action, a competence that clashed incongruously with her appearance.

Francisco could do anything he undertook, he could do it better than anyone else, and he did it without effort. There was no boasting in his manner and consciousness, no thought of comparison. His attitude was not: "I can do it better than you," but simply: "I can do it." What he meant by doing was doing superlatively.