Competent Quotes

Seek advice from those who are competent through their own experience and success to give it.

If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.

No man can be a competent legislator who does not add to an upright intention and a sound judgment a certain degree of knowledge of the subject on which he is to legislate.

I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to office-hugging, bone-idle types, to apathetic, disengaged automatons.

In his 4 years in the White House, President Carter worked to make the Federal Government more competent and compassionate and more responsive to the American people.

The key to power, then, is the ability to judge who is best able to further your interests in all situations. Keep friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent.

We can let our past [difficulties and failures] beat us or teach us [to be more knowledgeable, competent and realistic in the future]!

To handle the economy and services in a country like Iraq requires delegation of authority and the choice of competent people.

A competent portraitist knows how to imply the profile in the full face.

If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom.

I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.

The future belongs to the competent

The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well meaning.

The truth is no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.

The effective exploitation of his powers of abstraction must be regarded as one of the most vital activities of a competent programmer.

When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor.

Men are competent in groups that mimic the playground, incompetent in groups that mimic the family

I was not a great ballhandler. I just worked very hard at it, and I got to be a good ballhandler-a competent ballhandler-but never a great ballhandler.

But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had.

Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later.

A human being feels able and competent only so long as he is permitted to contribute as much as or more than he has contributed to him.

Any competent actor could have done what I did.

Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

I never taught him to break him thumb." "That's Gansey for you. Only learns enough to be superficially competent." "Loser," Ronan agreed, and he was himself again.

We look in... Germany for a superstar. We began with 10,000 people, which applied. From these 10,000, 100 was selected. The jury is unbelievably competent.

I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier.

There's Eddie's conviction and his lyrics and his ideals, and he can just rock straight out. His vocals are incredible. And we all are really competent musicians.

It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art.

Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at.

Justice Ginsburg is a very competent justice, and it is a joy to have her on the court, but particularly for me it is a pleasure to have a second woman on the court.

When you sign with a label, they do insist upon certain rights, and if you have a competent attorney, your rights will be protected.

The sincere artist is usually his own best critic, but continuous and prolonged work on one painting will sometimes dull his judgment... The critic is in demand, but he must be competent.

The analyses ... often become too competent to be comprehensible.

Having talent isn't merely about being competent; confidence is actually a part of that talent.

Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great. Competent design is not too much of a stretch. But if you are trying to do something new, you have challenges on so many axes.

Women who are confident of their abilities are more likely to succeed than those who lack confidence, even though the latter may be much more competent and talented and industrious.

I would rather have a competent extremist than an incompetent moderate.

Competition is for the competent.

...revolutions are not won by enlisting the masses. Revolution is a science for the few who are competent to practice it. It depends on correct organisation and above all, on communications.

The race cannot succeed, nor build strong citizens, until we have a race of women competent to do more than bear a brood of negative men.

No man is competent unless he can stalk alone and armed in the wilderness.

To be any sort of competent writer one must keep one's psychological distance from the supreme artists.

An incompetent lawyer can delay a trial for months or years. A competent lawyer can delay one even longer.

Government is not competent enough to regulate.

The differences between a competent person and an incompetent person are demonstrated in his environment (surroundings).

Being competent means the ability to control and operate the things in the environment and the environment itself.

In the scientific community you find competent teachers and original researchers, just as in the musical community you find many good performers but very few good composers.

It is true that the discerning intellect of the world is always much in advance of the creative, so that there are competent judges of the best book, and few writers of the best books.

I believe there's something in the Bible about 'Thou shalt not call anyone insane who owns and is competent with more firearms than you own sharp sticks.'