Competence Quotes
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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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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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The Oscar or the Emmy says you've reached a level of competence in this business, and I would love to have one.
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I've reached the age where competence is a turn-on.
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One of the best uses of your time is to increase your competence in your key result areas.
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And it makes you wonder—how can a people incapable of selecting their own lightbulbs and toilets possess enough competence to vote for their own rulers and fill out complicated tax returns?
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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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I do love being amongst creative people and facilitating that and being inspired by people. I get very bored with just competence and require inspiration all around me.
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No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence.
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To address questions of scientific responsibility does not necessarily imply that one needs technical competence in a particular field (e.g. biology) to evaluate certain technical matters.
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There's a whole bunch of things I don't know a thing about – I just stay away from those. So, I stay within what I call my circle of competence.
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The Central Bank has a lot to handle and it is best not to interfere with its 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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Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.
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When I hire somebody really senior, competence is the ante. They have to be really smart. But the real issue for me is, Are they going to fall in love with Apple? Because if they fall in love with Apple, everything else will take care of itself. They'll want to do what's best for Apple, not what's best for them, what's best for Steve, or anybody else.
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The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.
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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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Emotional intelligence, more than any other factor, more than I.Q. or expertise, accounts for 85% to 90% of success at work... I.Q. is a threshold competence. You need it, but it doesn't make you a star. Emotional intelligence can.
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Lowered reliability obviously yields a lesser competence. But lowered breadth does so as well.
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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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An important re-engineering principle is that companies should focus on their core competence and outsource everything else.
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Competence is the enemy of change!
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Competence comes when successful outcomes are produced by values-driven, purposeful behaviors.
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How I feel about and behave toward myself is the basic determinant of most of my behavior. If I improve my self-regard, I will find that dozens of behaviors change automatically. If, for example, I increase my feelings of self-competence, I will probably be less defensive, less angered by criticism, less devastated if I do not get a raise, less anxious when I come to work, better able to make decisions, and more able to appreciate and praise other people.
