Incompetence Of Others Quotes

#1. Guilt is the sum total of: All the negative feelings we have ever had about ourselves! Any form of self-hatred, self-rejection, feelings of worthlessness, sinfulness, inferiority, incompetence, failure, or emptiness. The feeling that there are things in us that are lacking or missing or incomplete.

Kenneth Wapnick

#2. I see no magic in tax dollars which are sent to Washington and then returned. I abhor the waste and incompetence of large-scale federal bureaucracies in this administration as well as in others. I do not favor state compulsion when voluntary individual effort can do the job and do it well.

John F. Kennedy

#3. Some oysters which Griselda had ordered, and which would seem to be beyond the reach of incompetence, we were, unfortunately, not able to sample as we had nothing in the house to open them with - an omission which was discovered only when the moment for eating them arrived.

Agatha Christie

#4. On almost every issue involving postwar Iraq, [Bush's] assumptions and policies have been wrong. This strange combination of arrogance and incompetence has not only destroyed the hopes for a new Iraq. It has had the much broader effect of turning the United States into an international outlaw.

Fareed Zakaria

#5. Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

Dora Russell

#6. I hate to admit it, but governmental deviousness is usually better explained by incompetence, vanity, and the need to protect one's job at all costs.

Jasper Fforde

#7. Secrecy breeds incompetence because where there is failure, failure is kept secret.

Julian Assange

#8. When you have something meaningful to say, you lose your desire for much grammar; for only in the incompetence of words does one seek the redeeming power of vocabulary.

King Samuel Benson

#9. There is a difference between really being concerned about service delivery and incompetence and just complaining for the sake of it.

Zelda La Grange

#10. I didn't answer her. All I could have said was I don't know, a sentence that was becoming a kind of witness to our own ignorance or incompetence. Or both.

Jeff VanderMeer

#11. When focusing only on one's credentials one boasts his own incompetence in his capacity for discernment of the individual.

Criss Jami

#12. Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.

Unknown

#13. Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

Laurence J. Peter

#14. In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption.

Anthony Zinni

#15. The pursuit of wealth generally diverts men of great talents and of great passions from the pursuit of power, and it very frequently happens that a man does not undertake to direct the fortune of the State until he has discovered his incompetence to conduct his own affairs.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#16. It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity.

Peter Drucker

#17. An incompetent person in a responsible position may cause huge damage. Such a person should act less and think more.

Eraldo Banovac

#18. The machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies riddled through and through with incompetence.

Laurence J. Peter

#19. The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.

James C. Collins

#20. Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

Laurence J. Peter

#21. One of the painfully sobering realizations that come from reading history is the utter incompetence that is possible among leaders of whole nations and empires - and the blind faith that such leaders can nevertheless inspire among the people who are enthralled by their words or their posturing.

Thomas Sowell

#22. Rowl was not prepared to tolerate incompetence where his personal human was concerned. He had just gotten her properly trained.

Jim Butcher

#23. I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.

Elizabeth Peters

#24. Someone who says "I am busy" is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#25. [On Obama Administration] I've never heard any administration or any business or anybody ever claim incompetence more than this group of people,

Glenn Beck

#26. Guilt is a guide that will lead me whenever I choose to follow. It will raise its righteous banner and take me to the wasteland of my incompetence. Guilt is a voice that will speak whenever i choose to listen. It will mournfully address any subject but one : correcting the mistake.

Hugh Prather

#27. Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence.

George R R Martin

#28. Adventure is a sign of incompetence.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

#29. Incompetence is a double-edged banana.

John Perry Barlow

#30. Writing is the only trade I know of in which sniveling confessions of extreme incompetence are taken as credentials probative of powers to astound the multitude.

George V. Higgins

#31. One moment of incompetence can be fatal.

Frank Herbert

#32. A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability, incompetence, suffering, disease, disaster, the lack, the fault, the flaw-the zero.

Ayn Rand