Competence Quotes
The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush. - Ada Louise Huxtable
Love and work are viewed and experienced as totally separate activities motivated by separate needs. Yet, when we think about it, our common sense tells us that our most inspired, creative acts are deeply tied to our need to love and that, when we lack love, we find it difficult to work creatively; that work without love is dead, mechanical, sheer competence without vitality, that love without work grows boring, monotonous, lacks depth and passion. - Marta Zahaykevich
To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honourable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honourable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success. - Orison Swett Marden
We reject the contention that in the remedial context the Congress must act in a wholly 'colorblind' fashion. It is fundamental that in no organ of government, state or federal, does there repose a more comprehensive remedial power than in the Congress, expressly charged by the Constitution with competence and authority to enforce equal protection guarantees. - Warren Earl
The best man in his dwelling loves the earth. In his heart, he loves what is profound. In his associations, he loves humanity. In his words, he loves faithfulness. In government, he loves order. In handling affairs, he loves competence. In his activities, he loves timeliness. It is because he does not compete that he is without reproach. - Lao Tzu
What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation. - John Buchan
Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.- Tarja Halonen
The U.N. has been so disappointing to date on the whole Rwanda issue that despite the people they've sent through, and I have no doubt their competence, in the end, the decision is going to be made by other people and not by them.- Tony Greig
No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence.- William Glasser
If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.- William Glasser
Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence.- Niklaus Wirth
I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.- Ayrton Senna
Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.- Laurence J. Peter
Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.- Peggy Noonan
The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.- Daniel P. Moynihan
If you look at the 19 hijackers who came to the United States in Sept. 11 to commit those acts, if you'd looked at them before they got onto a plane, you could probably say the same thing. There were various levels of expertise, various levels of competence.- Robert Mueller
The Commission has five commissioners from each side, plus three alternates, so all together sixteen members, people who are independent from the two governments, who have a lot of integrity, professional competence, and who have credibility in their respective countries.- Jose Ramos
The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans.- Diane Feinstein
To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education.- John S. Dickey
He lives out in Orchard Park. I mean, to be able to sit on the bench so patiently, for whatever part, and to be able to get up and do something, with such heroic competencies would be great.- Robert Creeley
It does not matter what party you are a member of in this great Nation of ours. Accountability and competence are characteristics that Americans value throughout our great land.- Jim Costa Quote
To address questions of scientific responsibility does not necessarily imply that one needs technical competence in a particular field - e.g. biology) to evaluate certain technical matters.-Serge Lang
To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education.-John S. Dickey
To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.-Orison Swett Marden
Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help you to get there, students do competent work. The lowest passing grade in the real world is competence. Why do schools accept so much less?-William Glasser
Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.-Tarja Halonen
You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.-Doug Coupland
But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.-John Cleese
Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.-Laurence J. Peter
Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.-Allan Bloom
I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.-Ayrton Senna
If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.-William Glasser
If you look at the 19 hijackers who came to the United States in Sept. 11 to commit those acts, if you'd looked at them before they got onto a plane, you could probably say the same thing. There were various levels of expertise, various levels of competence.-Robert Mueller
Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence.-Niklaus Wirth
It does not matter what party you are a member of in this great Nation of ours. Accountability and competence are characteristics that Americans value throughout our great land.-Jim Costa
It is undeniable that a woman's ability to stretch and pursue her total competence outside the home and get paid what she's worth for it makes for happier and more fulfilled women.-Kyle D. Pruett
No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence.-William Glasser
Our all-volunteer force continues to prove itself with a great level of professionalism, personal commitment and a technical competence that is quite remarkable.-Geoff Davis
Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.-Peggy Noonan
Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the "naturals," the ones who somehow know how to teach.-Peter Drucker
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.-J. M. Coetzee
The Commission has five commissioners from each side, plus three alternates, so all together sixteen members, people who are independent from the two governments, who have a lot of integrity, professional competence, and who have credibility in their respective countries.-Jose Ramos-Horta
The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans.-Diane Feinstein
The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.-John S. Dickey
The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.-Daniel P. Moynihan
The U.N. has been so disappointing to date on the whole Rwanda issue that despite the people they've sent through, and I have no doubt their competence, in the end, the decision is going to be made by other people and not by them.-Tony Greig
There's a lot more to competence than a law degree and a modicum of courtroom skill.-Fred Thompson