Ernest Sosa Quotes
Lowered reliability obviously yields a lesser competence. But lowered breadth does so as well.
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Time narrows or expands according to how we approach it. It varies with a man’s breadth, with his heart.
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I've reached the age where competence is a turn-on.
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Competence doesn't seem like a big deal until you are forced to realize that your own government has none.
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I do not have the information - I do not have the competence - to ask the countries how they have handled these questions.
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Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields.
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A man who lacks reliability is utterly useless.
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If we conducted ourselves as sensibly in good times as we do in hard times, we could all acquire a competence.
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If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.
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The considerations upon which expectations of prospective yields are based are partly existing facts which we can assume to be known more or less for certain, and partly future events which can only be forecasted with more or less confidence.
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Competence is the enemy of change!
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Until we have established reliability there is no sense at all in wasting time trying to make the thing go faster.
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Without having these reliability problems we simply could go through the run plan every day as planned. We focussed on ourselves, not focussed on lap times and so on.
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The breadth of Zappa's catalog was unbelievable. He just thought out of the box. His music was different from what everyone else was doing in his day.
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I'm very always saddened by the fact that people aren't buying newspapers. They may be reading the news online, but the depth, width, breadth of what we really need to understand in the world, to be informed and engaged, I think that's sometimes challenged.
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I do love competence in a man.
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When an honorable man yields, in an hour of weakness, to temptation, his first step toward atonement is confession.
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Effective leadership is the only competitive advantage that will endure. That's because leadership has two sides- what a person is character and what a person does- competence.
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If we have a better understanding of knowledge than we do of such justification or competence, then we can explain the latter through the former.
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I watched 'Evil Dead' when I was 12. I was going through all the horror I could grab. I remember going to the video store and asking for something 'real.' And the guy gave me the 'Evil Dead' VHS. When you're 12, you're not supposed to see that.
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All of Creation’s a farce. Man was born as a joke. In his head his reason is buffeted Like wind-blown smoke. Life is a game. Everyone ridicules everyone else. But he who has the last laugh Laughs longest.
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In my 20s I was in constant pain from undiagnosed endometriosis. With no prospect of a cure, I decided I needed a career - writing - that could accommodate being ill.
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Trust is a function of both character and competence. Of course you can't trust someone who lacks integrity, but if someone is honest but they can't perform, you're not going to trust them either. You won't trust them to get the job done.
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Lowered reliability obviously yields a lesser competence. But lowered breadth does so as well.
