Competent Quotes
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There are actors who can pull of a writer's lines; I am not competent enough to do that.
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I am afraid if there is anything to be afraid of. A precipice cannot hurt you. Lions and tigers can. The streets of New York I consider more dangerous than the Matterhorn to a thoroughly competent and careful climber.
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Even a competent lawyer may not be able to mount an adequate defense against the state, with all its resources, if he has next to nothing for investigation and effectively works for starvation wages.
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But it seemed that for every competent man or woman there was an incompetent man above. It was the law of trickle-up irresponsibility. And the competent man and woman spent so much time manipulating the incompetent men they had neither the time nor the motivation to do their jobs properly.
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The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well meaning.
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I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
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You have people who know you are competent enough to do your job and then you have the ones that just hover around.
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It's challenges like this that require you to have experienced, competent people in the government, and... a President willing to listen.
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Indeed there are many competent people who are plagued by a sense of inefficacy, and many less competent ones who remain unperturbed by impending threats because they are self-assured of their coping capabilities.
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The analyses ... often become too competent to be comprehensible.
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Having talent isn't merely about being competent; confidence is actually a part of that talent.
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Find people who are competent and really bright, but more importantly, people who care exactly about the same things you care about.
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Competent people are the most resistant to change
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Look somewhere else for someone who can follow you in your researches about numbers. For my part, I confess that they are far beyond me, and I am competent only to admire them.
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While loyalists and defectors overall said John Smith did a better job of standing up for Labour's values, they put Blair ahead on representing the whole country, appealing beyond traditional Labour voters and offering strong, competent leadership; switchers to the Tories gave him a clear lead in all categories.
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Our true destiny...is a world built from the bottom up by competent citizens living in solid communities, engaged in and by their places.
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Luck is an accident that happens to the competent.
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We look in... Germany for a superstar. We began with 10,000 people, which applied. From these 10,000, 100 was selected. The jury is unbelievably competent.
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Whether somebody is really competent - whether he has a good hockey mind, whether he's a good person to lead a hockey club - is something determined over a long period of time, not one tournament.
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Always surround yourself with people who are even more talented and competent than you.
