Competence Quotes

I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence. (Ayrton Senna)
Spiritually evolved people, by virtue of their discipline, mastery and love, are people of extraordinary competence, and in their competence they are called on to serve the world, and in their love they answer the call. View quote
M. Scott Peck
Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
The growth of New England was a result of the aggregate efforts of a busy multitude, each in his narrow circle toiling for himself, to gather competence or wealth. The expansion of New France was the achievement of a gigantic ambition striving to grasp a continent. It was a vain attempt. View quote
Francis Parkman
Love what you do. Get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age. And let the chips fall where they may. View quote
Jon Stewart
Look for competence not claims. View quote
Anthony de Mello
THE MOMENT OF CHOICE A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence. View quote
Stephen Covey
Most men do not feel in themselves the competence required for leading their group to victory, and therefore seek out a captain who appears to possess the courage and sagacity necessary for the achievement of supremacy. Even in religion this impulse appears. Nietzsche accused Christianity of inculcating a slave-morality, but ultimate triumph was always the goal. "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth." View quote
Bertrand Russell
An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular competence. View quote
Irving Kristol
It required a lot less energy, intelligence, and competence to run against government than to try to make government work. View quote
Joe Biden
Obscurity and a competence -- that is a life that is best worth living. (Mark Twain)
To be a manager requires more than a title, a big office, and other outward symbols of rank. It requires competence and performance of a high order. View quote
Peter Drucker
Absolute size by itself is no indicator of success and achievement, let alone of managerial competence. Being the right size is. View quote
Peter Drucker
Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust authority to a person who has shown judgement, wisdom, personal appeal, and proven competence. View quote
Walt Disney
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. View quote
Niklaus Wirth
We send our [peacekeepers] off to some disputed zone, full of local intrigue and power blocs and uncertainty and danger, and they are supposed to save lives not with their weapons, but through their competence and their character. And they do it. View quote
Romeo LeBlanc
Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. View quote
Laurence J. Peter
Competence was attractive. View quote
Markus Zusak
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. View quote
Orison Swett Marden
Basically, to lead without a title is to derive your power within the organisation not from your position but from your competence, effectiveness, relationships, excellence, innovation and ethics. View quote
Robin S. Sharma
The first stable conclusion I reached ... was that the only thing brains could do was to approximate the responsivity to meanings that we presuppose in our everyday mentalistic discourse. When mechanical push comes to shove, a brain was always going to do what it was caused to do by current, local, mechanical circumstances, whatever it ought to do, whatever a God's-eye view might reveal about the actual meaning of its current states. But over the long haul, brains could be designed – by evolutionary processes – to do the right thing (from the point of view of meaning) with high reliability. ... [B]rains are syntactic engines that can mimic the competence of semantic engines. ... The appreciation of meanings – their discrimination and delectation – is central to our vision of consciousness, but this conviction that I, on the inside, deal directly with meanings turns out to be something rather like a benign "user-illusion". (Daniel Dennett)
If you have ever asked yourself if there are facts about yourself (about your health, your competence, your prospects) you would rather not know, and decided that there were, you should be prepared to consider seriously the suggestion that the best - perhaps the only - way to ensure that such facts are not imposed on people is by prohibiting investigations likely to discover them. View quote
Daniel Dennett
The cloud is still really just a bunch of servers, owned by someone or something, whose decisions and competence must be trusted. This applies to everything from Google Docs to Gmail: Putting our data out there really means putting it 'out there.' View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
Politicians are very experienced - maybe too experienced - at using body language to signal power and competence. But what these politicians are much more likely to struggle with, or just neglect to do altogether, is communicate warmth and trustworthiness. View quote
Amy Cuddy
It's not uncommon for people to overvalue the importance of demonstrating their competence and power, often at the expense of demonstrating their warmth. View quote
Amy Cuddy