Incompetent Quotes

#1. Wretched set of incompetent noodles.

Adam Hochschild

#2. The big commercial concerns of to-day are quite exceptionally incompetent. They will be even more incompetent when they are omnipotent.

G.K. Chesterton

#3. There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self-destruct. It never fails.

Richard Rybolt

#4. Some parents damage their children, but that does not mean that all troubled children have incompetent parents. In

Sue Klebold

#5. The child welfare system - devised and run by liberal social workers, psychologists, and judges ... Treats incompetent or abusive parents as its clients, and only secondarily considers the needs and well-being of the children involved.

Mona Charen

#6. As ever with modern Britain, we are let down by a vast, over-manned, over-funded, hidebound, obstructive, box-ticking and incompetent bureaucracy.

Frederick Forsyth

#7. An uneducated, half-brained serving boy with a hangover could make mock of you. I am left with no need to exert myself, and your very nature makes mockery of my mockery. And so it is that through sheer stupidity you make me look incompetent.

Brandon Sanderson

#8. Our megatechnic culture, based as it is on the strange supposition that subjective malice has no reality and that evils do not exist, except in the sense of reparable mechanical defects, has proved itself incompetent to take on such responsibilities.

Lewis Mumford

#9. If there's anything I hate more than a stupid action comedy, it's an incompetent stupid action comedy. It's not so bad it's good. It's so bad it's nothing else but bad.

Roger Ebert

#10. She was incompetent. Incompetent for life. She had never figured out how to figure things out. She was only vaguely beginning to know the kind of absence she had of herself inside her.

Clarice Lispector

#11. The incompetent quickly throws himself into another impressive enterprise in order to escape his responsibility from previous disaster.

George Chapman

#12. Shara realizes she herself has done this to her own enemies many times: after all, why kill someone when you can make them out to be an incompetent fool?

Robert Jackson Bennett

#13. Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

Aaron Allston

#14. Problems often become worse if incompetent people try to solve them.

Eraldo Banovac

#15. I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#16. He was, he would be the first to admit, a coward, an incompetent, and not even very good at being a failure.

Terry Pratchett

#17. Police internal affairs are in the business of protecting corrupt and incompetent police officers from prosecution due to the extensive range of laws that they have blatantly broken.

Steven Magee

#18. If you do your job and assume that everyone else is incompetent, you will seldom be disappointed.

Christopher Moore

#19. The more I was treated as a woman, the more woman I became. A adapted willy-nilly. If I was assumed to be incompetent at reversing cars, or opening bottles, oddly incompetent I found myself becoming. If a case was thought too heavy for me, inexplicably I found it so myself.

Jan Morris

#20. Do you know it is a universal affliction of the incompetent to judge another's actions only through the prism of their own faults, never to comprehend that another can react in any way other than how they themselves would?

Tom Wolosz

#21. In areas where they are simply incompetent, smart executives don't make decisions or take actions. They delegate.

Peter Drucker

#22. As though "the Truth" were such an innocent and incompetent creature as to require protectors!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#23. If someone gives you $1,000,000 you'd better become a millionaire so you can keep the money. Success doesn't want to hang around incompetent people.

Jim Rohn

#24. Go the extra mile. It makes your boss look like an incompetent slacker.

Stephen Hawking

#25. Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

John Maynard Keynes

#26. A good manager instills staff with self-confidence, teaches them to believe in themselves and helps them to realise their brilliance. Do not ever treat your staff with disrespect. It is competent until proven incompetent; not incompetent til proven competent.

Miya Yamanouchi

#27. The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage.

William Stewart Halsted

#28. Any dictatorship would be better than modern democracy. There cannot be so incompetent a dictator, that he would show more stupidity than a majority of the people. Best dictatorship would be one where lots of heads would roll and government would prevent any economical growth.

Pentti Linkola

#29. He was seeing a long line of men stretched through the centuries from Plato onward, whose heir and final product was an incompetent little professor with the appearance of a gigolo and the soul of a thug.

Ayn Rand

#30. Whether Barack Obama is simply incompetent as president or has some hidden agenda to undermine this country, at home and abroad, he has nearly everything he needs to ruin America, including a fool for a vice president

Thomas Sowell

#31. A woefully corrupt and incompetent government is only a problem to the taxpayer.

Lee Broad

#32. You missed with me so close? What? You failed your assassin training classes? Did you even bother to show up? Or are you just that incompetent? (Syn)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#33. Marshal Beria wasn't the type to sit and chat about nothing. Life was too short for that (and besides he was socially incompetent).

Jonas Jonasson

#34. Liberals go straight to ugly racist stereotypes when attacking conservative blacks, calling them oversexualized, stupid and/or incompetent.

Ann Coulter

#35. Support for the arts
merde! A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore!

Robert A. Heinlein

#36. Twentysomethings who don't feel anxious and incompetent at work are usually overconfident or underemployed.

Meg Jay

#37. Lyon is unusual and seems to be exceptionally incompetent at publicising itself. In fact, it doesn't want visitors. It fears discovery.

Bill Buford

#38. people who are incompetent suffer a dual burden: not only are they incompetent, but they may also be too incompetent to assay their own incompetence, because the skills which underlie an ability to make a correct judgement are the same as the skills required to recognise a correct judgement.

Ben Goldacre

#39. The insatiable need for heartless power and ruthless control is the telltale sign of an uninitiated man - the most irresponsible, incompetent and destructive force on earth.

Michael Leunig

#40. War is treachery and hatred, the muddling of incompetent generals, the torture and killing and sickness and tiredness, until at last it is over and nothing has changed except for new weariness and new hatreds.

John Steinbeck

#41. New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known. Make no mistake, Labour's economic policies were a national security liability.

Liam Fox

#42. I have no athletic skills whatsoever. I'm just literally incompetent.

James Gray

#43. It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.

Charles E. Sorensen

#44. It was a frightening thing, to see two mentally incompetent sidewalk buskers, with battered folk musicians, who might any moment burst into song.

Bruce Sterling

#45. In America our radicalism is still simply amateurish and incompetent.

Randolph Bourne

#46. Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible.

Charley Reese

#47. When you go back to your environment and you deal with employees ... do you inspire people or do you make them feel fear? Do you make them feel confident or incompetent? I think that distinction really marks the leader.

Liz Murray

#48. One key to learning and success is the willingness to try something new, and feel momentarily incompetent.

Seth Godin

#49. I once called the head of a network a liar. In hindsight, I should have called him an incompetent liar.

Steven Levitan

#50. The way the public sees it is this. If we don't leave, we are idiots. If we do leave but don't succeed in our mission, we are incompetent. But if we do succeed, it's because it was easy and anyone could have done it.

Bertrand Piccard

#51. The Romanovian method becomes one of appointing adventurer after incompetent after nonentity to grand offices of state. The liberals and the sharper-witted right grow ever more apoplectic.

China Mieville

#52. When placing an emergency call, it is important to remember that a corrupt or incompetent cop may be on their way to you.

Steven Magee

#53. Modern science shows that some of the mentally incompetent people would become more incompetent if you deprive them of sleep. How does it affect us?

Boris Zubry

#54. Basil Fawlty was an easy character for me. For some reason, portraying a mean uptight incompetent bully comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

#55. Kissing Mother Superior, incompetent, hairball, poppy seeds, on the can.

Jennifer Egan

#56. If an incompetent chieftain is removed, seldom do we appoint his highest-ranking subordinate to his place

Attila The Hun

#57. We have a president[Barack Obama] who doesn't have a clue. I would say he's incompetent, but I don't want to do that because that's not nice.

Donald Trump

#58. RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless.

Ambrose Bierce

#59. The Church is the place where the incompetent, the unfinished, and even the unhealthy are welcome. I believe Jesus agrees.

Mike Yaconelli

#60. President Obama was the most liberal and most incompetent president in my lifetime ever since Jimmy Carter.

Bobby Jindal

#61. It is the incompetent and the neglected artist who charges the public with ignorance, stupidity, and indifference. He raves loudly, but he is incomprehensible, even inarticulate, in his work.

Walter J. Phillips

#62. if Clinton was taken prisoner "it would be our misfortune, since the British government could not find another commander so incompetent to send in his place.

Ron Chernow

#63. The subjugation of news by entertainment seriously harms our democracy: It leads to dysfunctional journalism that fails to inform the people. And when the people are not informed, they cannot hold government accountable when it is incompetent, corrupt, or both.

Al Gore

#64. Dirty Love wasn't written and directed, it was committed. Here is a film so pitiful, it doesn't rise to the level of badness. It is hopelessly incompetent I am not certain that anyone involved has ever seen a movie, or knows what one is.

Roger Ebert

#65. Donald Trump isn't really running for president, come on! This is obviously a new reality show, Celebrity Presidential Apprentice. It ends with the incompetent celebrity being berated, humiliated, then unceremoniously fired.

Michael R. Burch

#66. Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

Laurence J. Peter

#67. My hands clench at my sides. I cannot adequately express how tickled I am to know that I wasted four years pursuing a business degree at Oregon State so I could scan and file papers while my incompetent twenty-four-year-old boss supervises.

Winter Renshaw

#68. Totally incompetent blowhard, an idiot and a fool.

Nelson DeMille

#69. I guess it's true what they say, that a child is as mature as his parents are incompetent." Yang

Yoshiki Tanaka

#70. The God whom we worship is not a weak and incompetent God. He is able to beat back gigantic waves of opposition and to bring low prodigious mountains of evil. The ringing testimony of the Christian faith is that God is able.

Martin Luther

#71. A review was published in Nature, very scathing, essentially calling me incompetent, though they didn't use that word. I am putting a reply on my Web site in a few days, where I go through their arguments, paragraph by paragraph.

Bjorn Lomborg

#72. The best pictures are always those one dreams of when one is smoking a pipe in bed, but which never get done. But still one ought to try, however incompetent one may feel before the unspeakable perfection and radiant splendour of nature.

Vincent Van Gogh

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

L. Ron Hubbard

#74. The computer may be incompetent in itself
that is, unable to do the work for which it was designed. This kind of incompetence can never be eliminated, because the Peter Principle applies in the plants where computers are designed and manufactured.

Laurence J. Peter

#75. Christ's blood in heaven, you ignorant, incompetent whey-faced nestlecock, do you think I am a hired spy, an informer? That I have a master, a paymaster, for God's love? You silly little man.

Patrick O'Brian

#76. Battle droid? The most incompetent droid soldier in the history of both the Republic and the Empire.

Chuck Wendig

#77. So what you have," Kenner said, "is a history of ignorant, incompetent, and disastrously intrusive intervention, followed by attempts to repair the intervention, followed by attempts to repair the damage caused by the repairs, as

Michael Crichton

#78. Our government has become incompetent, unresponsive, corrupt. And that incompetence, ineptitude, lack of accountability is now dangerous.

Carly Fiorina

#79. In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties.

Laurence J. Peter

#80. Initial incompetence is not a reason to be dismissive of capabilities. Al Qaeda itself was incompetent when it started as a terrorist organization. And clearly it's gone from blowing themselves up to knocking down the World Trade Center.

Michael Scheuer

#81. No matter how much someone may irritate me, I have no right to puff myself up with my own self-importance so as to declare that person to be absolutely incompetent, assuming a posture of disdain from my own position of false superiority.

Paulo Freire

#82. In my view, any government whose state is perpetually at war, and remains so in spite of initiatives to make peace, is incompetent and unfit and should resign.

Christina Engela

#83. God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, and the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in his arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos; he will set them above their betters.

H.L. Mencken

#84. It's long been my dream to have myself declared incompetent so I could just practice all day, and blog, and not have to take care of any normal life things.

Jeremy Denk

#85. As incompetent in life as in death, I loathe myself and in this loathing I dream of another life, another death. And for having sought to be a sage such as never was, I am only a madman among the mad ...

Emil Cioran

#86. The American people have come to rely on the government for their security. They will find out how incompetent the government is when they no longer have security.

James Cook

#87. I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

#88. I have always felt," he said, "that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats

Neil Gaiman

#89. I don't have time to distinguish between the unfortunate and the incompetent.

Curtis LeMay

#90. Excuse is the tool of the incompetent. A monument of nothingness, and those that use it are not wise.

Paul Adefarasin

#91. I really wanted to talk about the War on Terror and say that both sides were completely incompetent [in addressing it]. You can't blame the other side when you're involved in it.

Lewis Black

#92. God is either cruel or incompetent.

Woody Allen

#93. The Americans said they had no choice but to do it like that because no one really knew which side the ISI was on and someone might have tipped off bin Laden before they reached him. The director of the CIA said Pakistan was "either involved or incompetent.

Malala Yousafzai

#94. I began a conversation with the heads of our esteemed department of political science, and instantly I concluded, 'Hopelessly incompetent!

Ira Carmen

#95. People who lack vision almost always lack passion. Incompetent leaders are ineffective and they often stay that way.

John Maxwell

#96. I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.

Maureen Reagan

#97. Fun is going to enhance interest, because people don't feel incompetent when they're having fun.

Matthew Richter

#98. On a grim and dismal day that shattered my last ounce of confidence, I broke down and whimpered, "I'm awful and hideous and incompetent and boring and utterly useless." And then you grinned at me and said, "That's okay.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#99. According to her, I didn't have an ounce of tact. That simply wasn't true. It wasn't my fault that they were all incompetent asshats. "Are

Adele Abbott

#100. The more incompetent one feels, the more eager he is to fight.

Fyodor Dostoevsky