Being Competent Quotes

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

L. Ron Hubbard

#2. Parenting is about being competent and responsible. It's not about gender, necessarily.

Dan Savage

#3. While the President leads his potential adversaries in almost every state, his support is soft. He is seen as honest, sincere, just, and friendly but gets mediocre or relatively poor ratings being competent strong, intelligent, and a forceful leader.

Robert Teeter

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

Claire Shipman

#5. Life is not about being complacent, its all about being competent.

Chandan Sharma

#6. No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. A garden is a grand teacher ... above all it teaches entire trust.

Gertrude Jekyll

#8. I fancy myself as being a fairly competent person.

Lisa Ling

#9. I'm probably better than I ever was in my career, as far as the mental aspect of the game.

Michael Vick

#10. The point came when people were doing things I didn't feel competent to do myself. I'm not being modest; I honestly get lost. I was lucky in spotting what I did when I did, but there comes a point where you realise what you're doing is not going to be much good.

Peter Higgs

#11. When I was single, I was down to $100 of power a year.

Ed Begley Jr.

#12. I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.

Stephen King

#13. If you have life's experiences with you, nothing can stop you from being a competent actor.

Randeep Hooda

#14. Stardom is just an uneasy seat on top of a tricky toboggan. Being a star is merely perching at the head of the downgrade. A competent featured player can last a lifetime. A star, a year or two. There's all that agony of finding suitable stories, keeping in character, maintaining illusion.

Fredric March

#15. However, sexual anorexics do have a definite profile that separates them from the larger population of those having difficulty being sexual: They are often extremely competent people who are committed to doing things very well and have a fear of making mistakes and being human.

Patrick J. Carnes

#16. I thought of the unblemished thing, the thing that lasts, and I thought the only thing with the power to save us also had the power to slay us.

Rick Yancey

#17. Unless you are silent, you will not
know your urgent heart, how it beats
between the thin skin of yes and no.

Drew Myron

#18. Parents find many different ways to work their way through the assertiveness of their two-year-olds, but seeing that assertiveness as positive energy being directed toward growth as a competent individual may open up some new possibilities.

Fred Rogers

#19. I had never 'taken a cutting' before ... Do you realize that the whole thing is miraculous? It is exactly as though you were to cut off your wife's leg, stick it in the lawn, and be greeted on the following day by an entirely new woman, sprung from the leg, advancing across the lawn to meet you.

Beverley Nichols

#20. I helped you. I did! I put him where you told me to. (Basi)
You didn't do shit, except whine and piss me off! (Apollymi)
(Apollymi blasted her into oblivion.)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#21. Oh, that God would purge away my dross, and take away my tin, and refine me seven times.

Jonathan Edwards

#22. I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.

Natascha McElhone

#23. One may have a right to be unconventional and even eccentric, so long as one is fully competent and a decent person; but one's ideal as a professor should be to conduct oneself as an admirable human being: just, kind, tolerant, competent, committed, and good-humored.

Robert Audi

#24. Posts of honor are evermore posts of danger and of care.

J.G. Holland

#25. The more you treat your body and the cells as intelligent being the more you will be sharp, quick, competent, and fulfilled.

Amit Ray

#26. Who, with tame cowardice familiar grown, would hear my thoughts, but fear to speak their own.

Charles Churchill

#27. I hope that by just being a competent member and expressing informed views on issues that aren't related to issues of LGBT equality, Republicans see me as a general asset.

Mark Takano

#28. The art of the hero wasn't about being brave; it was about being so competent that bravery wasn't an issue. You

Christopher McDougall

#29. You always hold out so long. I want it to feel so good you can't last." "You're so evil," I hissed and she laughed, turning her head to capture my mouth in a kiss.

Christina Lauren

#30. To me faith means not worrying

John Dewey

#31. 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.

L. Ron Hubbard

#32. The sun of a prince's good graces resembles that in the skies in that it shines most kindly upon the blackest people.

Franz Grillparzer

#33. The acid test for any theology is this: Is the God presented one that can be loved, heart, soul, mind, and strength? ... If it fails to set a lovable God
a radiant, happy, friendly, accessible, and totally competent being
before ordinary people, we have gone wrong

Dallas Willard

#34. You want to be competent? she thought. You want to learn to be in control of what goes on around you, rather than just being pushed around? Then you'll have to learn to deal with failure.

Brandon Sanderson

#35. Pat has been instrumental in what we've done here so far and the most selfish thing for me is that I want to see what we've done placed in the hands of the most competent person, and that's Pat. No one would come close to being able to continue to build on what we've done here so far like he will.

Bobby Knight

#36. I just wanted to be good at this. And competent. And tough. And, ultimately, just: anybody but me. I was tired of being a disaster. I was tired of being a trampled-on flower. I wanted to be awesome. That wasn't too much, was it?

Katherine Center

#37. Sieh was a horrible father and a wretched friend and a barely competent employee, completely unworthy of being missed or mourned.

N.K. Jemisin