Competently Quotes

#1. You've got to wish for something the whole time when you're seventeen. You've got to, or there's nothing to live for. However impossible you've got to think you want it ... When I couldn't think of a thing I wanted I nearly died.

Charlotte Bingham

#2. The trouble was already there," Reed says."You've just uncovered it, is all.

Lauren DeStefano

#3. The politician and the government expert receive their revenues, not from service voluntarily purchased on the market, but from a compulsory levy on the populace. These officials, therefore, wholly lack the pecuniary incentive to care about serving the public properly and competently.

Murray Rothbard

#4. I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.

Samuel Beckett

#5. Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

Isaac Asimov

#6. Anyone who writes about Darwin's theory of evolutionin the singular, without segregating the theories of gradual evolution, common descent, speciation, and the mechanism of natural selection, will be quite unable to discuss the subject competently.

Ernst Mayr

#7. A cultivated wit, one that badgers less, can persuade all the more. Artful ridicule can address contentious issues more competently and vigorously than can severity alone.

Horace

#8. Colleges and universities, for all the benefits they bring, accomplish far less for their students than they should. Many students graduate without being able to write well enough to satisfy their employers ... reason clearly or perform competently in analyzing complex, non-technical problems.

Derek Bok

#9. We writers dream of a future where actors are mostly computer generated and their performances can be adjusted, by us, on a laptop, alone.

Tina Fey

#10. She tried to show them how women could do anything, and do it competently. How problems could be worked out if they ignored what people said and did what conscience required.

Kiana Davenport

#11. As Mr. Nagle so competently points out, almost no one uses Eiffel; in fact until recently there were only 9 users. But now a 10th person just started, so we are holding a conference, appropriately titled the TENTH Eiffel USER conference, to celebrate.

Bertrand Meyer

#12. Government seems to operate on the principle that if even one individual is incapable of using his freedom competently, no one can be allowed to be free.

Harry Browne

#13. An effective leader creates specific, achievable goals, initiates action and enlists the participation of others. They remove distractions; grasps the bigger picture, focuses on one task at a time; completes the task competently and organizes for the future.

Ken Wyatt

#14. To competently perform rectifying security service, two critical incident response elements are necessary: information and organization.

Robert E. Davis

#15. This is where someone who does his job competently and effectively believes that he's just an impostor; that he doesn't really know what he's doing.

Russ Harris

#16. I am just wondering how this world would be if everyone done their job competently and efficiently. I am so tired of imbeciles. I do believe their function on this earth is to torment those who have common sense.

Patricia H. Graham

#17. Lead competently.
Lead productively.
Lead skillfully.
Lead excellently.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#18. Fear can banish faith, but faith can banish fear.

Billy Graham

#19. When a great moment arises, it is great to be right there!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#20. The woman's brain has two hemispheres," she slurred. "One for loving, one for hating. They can operate quite competently at the same time.

Colin Cotterill

#21. Sell confidently.
Sell competently.
Sell compellingly.
Sell competitively.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#22. You come across words all the time that are everyday sexism. I was described as 'competently bossy' and 'bossily competent' by a male journalist, and I thought, 'Gosh, 'bossy' is never used of a man.'

Clare Balding

#23. It is the chair in honor of all those who, however competently, embrace the impossible. Sit in that chair someday.

Robert Fulghum