Quotes about Competence

The code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a gold standard.

It was only in the first few years that she felt herself screaming silently, at times, for a glimpse of human ability, a single glimpse of clean, hard, radiant competence. She had fits of tortured longing for a friend or enemy with a mind better than her own.

she had always looked for sparks of competence, like a diamond prospector in an unpromising wasteland.

A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence.

All I want is the same thing you want. To have a nation with a government that is as good and honest and decent and competent and compassionate and as filled with love as are the American people.

As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.

Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't.

I don't have to be proud of it. I only have to do it well. — Thomas Hudson

When you try to exercise authority within a department that is outside your core competencies, you will hinder everything and everyone under your watch. If you fail to distinguish between authority and competence, you will exert your influence in ways that damage projects and people. To put it bluntly, there are things you are responsible for that you should keep your nose out of.

Every leader has authority over arenas in which he has little or no competence. When we exert our authority in an area where we lack competence, we can derail projects and demotivate those who have the skills we lack.

One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And there is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.

Ability is a poor man's wealth.