My Credentials Quotes

#1. My sincerity is my credentials.

Malcolm X

#2. My credentials, briefly: I no longer go to church or believe in God, but I can still name every one of the fruits of the Spirit and reeled for days upon hearing the announcement that Audio Adrenaline was reunited with one of the singers from DC Talk.

Mallory Ortberg

#3. It's not my credentials that qualify me to teach my child. It's my God who made me qualified when I became a mom.

Tamara L. Chilver

#4. I do not pretend to be a divine man, but I do believe in divine guidance, divine power, and in the fulfillment of divine prophecy. I am not educated, nor am I an expert in any particular field but I am sincere, and my sincerity is my credentials.

Malcolm X

#5. Upon his return to New York, Robert opened his mail to learn that Ernest Rutherford had rejected him. "Rutherford wouldn't have me," Oppenheimer recalled. "He didn't think much of Bridgman and my credentials were peculiar.

Kai Bird

#6. A bigot is simply a sociologist without credentials.

Dinesh D'Souza

#7. Credentials and classrooms are useless unless they lead us toward consciously applying knowledge to improve the quality of our community.

Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti

#8. The CIA will only hire people with impeccable credentials to be a translator. 'Impeccable credentials' means you've never lived outside the United States.

Michael Bloomberg

#9. Sometimes, the people who make a difference are not the ones with the credentials, but the ones with the concern.

Max Lucado

#10. Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position.

C.S. Lewis

#11. It is not about where you are but in what direction you're moving. God is into character, not credentials.

Howard G. Hendricks

#12. One of the perks of earning credentials is gaining permission to know nothing.

Brene Brown

#13. There's nothing like living a little close to the edge that gets you motivated to ensure that you get the credentials you need to succeed.

Thomas Friedman

#14. It's a great joy but no test of love or commitment to take your son to a ball game. You really prove your credentials as a good dad when you are willing to take your daughter shopping - more than once.

Michael Josephson

#15. There's no question that increased formal credentials can give you an advantage. The question is, is it the best advantage you can buy with the amount of money and time you're going to spend?

Michael Ellsberg

#16. The colors that float from the masthead should be the credentials of our seamen. There is no safety to us, and the gentlemen have shown it, but in the rule that all who sail under the flag (not being enemies) are protected by the flag.

Henry Clay

#17. He tucked his fingers into his belt loops. "Happy to sit back and watch, if you want to prove your G.I. Jane credentials.

Brynn Kelly

#18. Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at the National Institutes of Health. Perhaps because his wife was a poet, Ira Pastan agreed to take me into his laboratory, despite my lack of scientific credentials.

Harold E. Varmus

#19. It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like, instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by the audience.

Carlisle Floyd

#20. To be honest, I think emotional accessibility is a shame trigger for researchers and academics. Very early in our training, we are taught that a cool distance and inaccessibility contribute to prestige, and that if you're too relatable, your credentials come into question.

Brene Brown

#21. When it comes to identifying a real leader, that task can be much easier. Don't listen to the claims of the person professing to be the leader. Don't examine his credentials. Don't check his title. Check his influence. The proof of leadership is found in the followers.
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John C. Maxwell

#22. I do not have to look for credentials for my Polishness and for my patriotism. I'm a Pole. The chronicles of my family go back - as far back as the 13th century.

Wojciech Jaruzelski

#23. I deny their credentials as whales; and have presented them with their passports to quit the Kingdom of Cetology.

Herman Melville

#24. When I started, the press credentials said 'No women or children in the press box,' ... There are a lot of things in the workplace that you can attempt to hide, and I could not hide the fact that I was a woman. I was always the only woman in the press box, and they didn't even have ladies rooms.

Lesley Visser

#25. I'll put my progressive credentials up against anyone's.

Bart Stupak

#26. If you think about it, critics are an unnecessary life-form on the planet Earth, and here's why: because it's a job without credentials. You don't have to go to school.

Gene Simmons

#27. Some folks in the office said I should explain in my complaint that I was a civil rights attorney working on police misconduct cases. It seemed to me that no one should need those kinds of credentials to complain about misconduct by police officers.

Bryan Stevenson

#28. It isn't my teaching credentials that qualify me to teach my child. It is my God who qualifies me.

Tamara L. Chilver

#29. He's got great credentials by winning the World Cup but he did it with Brazil - my granny could probably have managed Brazil to World Cup success.

Gary Lineker

#30. Credentials have been a problem for a long time in my work. Originality has been my strength, and credentials and academia have not been.

Budd Hopkins

#31. I'm not from a maple producing area and so my maple syrup credentials are very much of the eating side.

Nancy Greene

#32. My experience is that money and transactions purify relations; ideas and abstract matters like "recognition" and "credit" warp them, creating an atmosphere of perpetual rivalry. I grew to find people greedy for credentials nauseating, repulsive, and untrustworthy.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#33. I always find that what's unique to my clinics is the credentials I bring to the table

Luke Jensen

#34. Guidebooks used to write the name of my city in two ways: Gjirokaster in Albanian, and Argyrokastron for foreigners. The classical-sounding name somehow gave it better credentials, because people in the Balkans famously exaggerate and often call their villages cities.

Ismail Kadare

#35. The last thing I need added to my list of credentials is 'stabbed by a mattress,' in addition to a cocktail skewer

Amie Kaufman

#36. I'm an actor first and foremost. My producing credentials are just to say, 'Yeah, I love this story and now let's bring the people, the ensemble together,' and I get out of the way. I have no desire to check on schedules and shooting schedules and money and stuff like that.

Pierce Brosnan

#37. Today people look at me, at my job and my Ivy League credentials, and assume that I'm some sort of genius, that only a truly extraordinary person could have made it to where I am today. With all due respect to those people, I think that theory is a load of bullshit. Whatever

J.D. Vance

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

Criss Jami

#39. You just got your nerd credentials back.

Bill Maher

#40. Harner has impeccable credentials, both as an academic and as a practicing shaman. Without doubt (since the recent death of Mircea Eliade) the world's leading authority on shamanism.

Nevill Drury

#41. Schools in the future will be judged less because of the credentials that they bestow, and more because of the experiences that they offer.

Roger Schank

#42. Squash has the credentials to become an olympic event and our goal is to see the sport in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. We are working towards this and will keep trying even if our bid is not successful.

Jahangir Khan

#43. I rather doubt that life has a meaning. If I thought perhaps it did, and I wanted to find out what its meaning is, I don't imagine I'd ask someone whose credentials consist of a PhD in philosophy.

Jerry Fodor

#44. If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.

Vin Diesel

#45. A few persons of an odious and despised country could not have filled the world with believers, had they not shown undoubted credentials from the divine person who sent them on such a message.

Joseph Addison

#46. Conservatives have excellent credentials to speak about human rights. By our efforts, and with precious little help from self-styled liberals, we were largely responsible for securing liberty for a substantial share of the world's population and defending it for most of the rest.

Margaret Thatcher

#47. THE MISCONCEPTION: You are more concerned with the validity of information than the person delivering it. THE TRUTH: The status and credentials of an individual greatly influence your perception of that individual's message.

David McRaney

#48. A very practical way to control who can interact with you, your credentials and your reputation is to partition 'you' into the multiple personas formed from pseudonyms. This

David Birch

#49. The devil is not terribly frightened of our human efforts and credentials. But he knows his kingdom will be damaged when we begin to lift up our hearts to God.

Jim Cymbala

#50. Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials.

Mordecai Richler

#51. Our party, I can tell you, is very transparent; we believe in our credentials. Our credentials are our only credibility; we are not going to compromise on that; we are the commoners.

Mamata Banerjee

#52. 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

#53. I have no credentials. I have no money. I literally come from a poor place. I was a servant. I dropped out of college. The next thing you know I'm writing for the 'New Yorker,' I have this sort of life, and it must seem annoying to people.

Jamaica Kincaid

#54. I got brilliant stories from people who'd never set foot in an MFA program and had published very little, and terrible stories from people who'd published a lot and had all the credentials. It was all over the map and that was part of the fun.

Ben Fountain

#55. As an American I am not so shocked that Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize without any accomplishments to his name, America gave him the White House based on the same credentials.

Newt Gingrich

#56. He has not yet become an elder statesman, though his foreign policy credentials are considerable, but he is certainly our ancient mariner, forever tugging at our sleeve to let him tell his tale of what really happened.

Ronald Steel

#57. God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit.

George Bernard Shaw

#58. I was sent there by the Free Congress Committee, headed by Paul Weyrich. Fred Smith and I were sent down as observers, with reporters' credentials, so we could witness the events.

Dixie Lee Ray

#59. Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#60. Clinton is the first female to be taken seriously for the highest office in the land. She has the credentials, the stamina and she is a good campaigner. Her detractors in both parties like to say she can't win, but they may be proven wrong.

Helen Thomas

#61. Animal rights activists gives disillusioned feminists an excuse to go back to being women protecting wee creatures without compromising their radical credentials

Florence King

#62. When the point of education becomes the production of credentials rather than the cultivation of knowledge, it forfeits the motive recognized by Aristotle: All human beings by nature desire to know.

Matthew B. Crawford

#63. There's nothing more distasteful than an academic having to, like, trot out his credentials. You really come off as a jerk when you do that.

Reza Aslan

#64. An archaeologist is a ghoul with credentials.

Robert Shea

#65. The only good thing about nuclear war is that it is the single most egalitarian idea that man has ever had. On the day of reckoning, you will not be asked to present your credentials. The devastation will be indiscriminate.

Arundhati Roy

#66. History is one of the only fields where contributions by amateurs are taken seriously, providing you follow the rules and document your sources. In history, it's what you write, not what your credentials are.

George Dyson

#67. The sign and credentials of the poet are that he announces that which no man foretold

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#68. A happy person with decent self-esteem wouldn't bother to have credentials as good as mine.

Mark Vonnegut

#69. To the liberal class, every big economic problem is really an education problem, a failure by the losers to learn the right skills and get the credentials everyone knows you'll need in the society of the future.

Thomas Frank

#70. One of the things that became clear, and which was actually rather disturbing, was the fact that there was a view which was being expressed by people whose scientific credentials you can't question.

Thabo Mbeki