Competent Person Quotes

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

Lisa Ling

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

L. Ron Hubbard

#3. 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

#4. I will never become a horse trainer, a biologist, a person competent with a hammer. My loves were my loves.

Jane Hirshfield

#5. Anyone who has ever been able to sustain good work has had at least one person
and often many
who have believed in him or her. We just don't get to be competent human beings without a lot of different investments from others.

Fred Rogers

#6. Have you ever noticed when you look in a mirror, unless you're really depressed or something, the person in the mirror generally looks a little more competent, a little more curious, a little more intelligent than you actually feel yourself to be? They often look more interesting and more soulful.

Gregory Maguire

#7. My problem is that I do not get along with lesbians at all. They don't like me, and I don't like them.

Camille Paglia

#8. American business can out-think, out-work, out-perform any nation in the world. But we can't beat the competition if we don't get in the ball game.

George H. W. Bush

#9. Dear Juliet. I could relate to her pain. Black misery painted on a blood red heart. Death would be more bearable than life without Romeo.

Marilyn Grey

#10. For Nicole, my idea of beauty

Jonathan Safran Foer

#11. What we look for are people that are technically competent. You need a background in a scientific field, whether it's as a scientist, an engineer, medical doctor, or, you know, a person that's in the military with some kind of technical background.

Scott Kelly

#12. A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

Robert A. Heinlein

#13. Some people play very, very well just so they won't get embarrassed.

Lynn Swann

#14. Whether somebody is really competent - whether he has a good hockey mind, whether he's a good person to lead a hockey club - is something determined over a long period of time, not one tournament.

Steve Yzerman

#15. It is also true that the less competent a person is in a given domain, the more he will tend to overestimate his abilities. This often produces an ugly marriage of confidence and ignorance that is very difficult to correct for.

Sam Harris

#16. Tell me why the caged bird nutters against its prison bars, and I will tell you why the soul sickens of earthliness. The bird has wings, and wings were made to cleave the air, and soar in freedom in the sun. The soul is immortal it cannot feed upon husks.

Randolph Sinks Foster

#17. Love isn't just what you feel for someone when you look at them. It's how they make you feel about yourself when they look back at you.

Priya Sharma

#18. All highly competent people continually search for ways to keep learning, growing, and improving. They do that by asking WHY. After all, the person who knows HOW will always have a job, but the person who knows WHY will always be the boss.

Benjamin Franklin

#19. 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

#20. I never want to discourage anyone who chooses the arts as a path because it's hard enough to make it in this business or even get ahead.

Nicole Appleton

#21. * Intelligence is quickness to learn. Ability is the skill to apply what is learned. Competence is the ability and the desire to apply what is learned. Desire is the attitude that makes a skillful person competent. Many skillful people are incompetent. Ability without the right attitude is wasted.

Shiv Khera

#22. I'm probably a lot closer than perhaps the contents of my early fiction suggest to a jaded Denny's waitress with smoker's-lung-black humor than a ghost hunter.

Karen Russell

#23. Pasteur said, like all great discoverers, he knew something about accidental discoveries. The best way to get maximal exposure is to keep researching. Collect opportunities--

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#24. The Lord needs us. He needs us to be knowledgeable, dependable, and competent disciples. We need to know not only that the gospel is true but we need to know the gospel, better than we do right now. We need to be in the right place at the right time. We will thereby become the right person.

Robert L. Millet

#25. It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.

Alfred Adler