Quotes About Social Competence

#1. Social prejudice is a strong force, but no match for simple competence when skill is in urgent demand and short supply.

Diana Gabaldon

#2. Unless a Western's made money - doesn't matter who made the money, doesn't matter what the subject is - if the last one didn't make any money, you can't make another one for a four-year period. Westerns more than any genre.

Val Kilmer

#3. When you look at someone you knew when you were young, you always see the person you first met,

Tana French

#4. Every discipline develops standards of professional competence to which its workers are subject ... Every scientific community is a society in the small, so to speak, with its own agencies of social control.

Abraham Kaplan

#5. I took the role of Rochelle in 'Everybody Hates Chris,' and that was it. I was going to play mother roles all the time. Once you do one mother role, it's always a trickle down effect.

Tichina Arnold

#6. Even without his robes an arahant is recognized simply by the effect his metta has in a crowd.

Tim Ward

#7. I'm reverent from a distance.

Janet Morris

#8. The role of any person in this world is to be themselves without damaging the rest. We are important as long as the rest "is". - Rossana Condoleo

Rossana Condoleo

#9. For the social phobic, any kind of performance - musical, sporting, public speaking - can be terrifying because failure will reveal the weakness and inadequacy within. This in turn means constantly projecting an image that feels false - an image of confidence, competence, even perfection.

Scott Stossel

#10. You can do whatever you want with my work.

Kathy Acker

#11. Your job is to find better ideas, mine is to cut holes in the ones you have, and you've already done that pretty well.

Steven Brust