Competence Quotes
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
Patrick Lencioni -
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.
Stephen Covey
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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.
O. J. Simpson -
I've reached the age where competence is a turn-on.
Billy Joel -
One of the best uses of your time is to increase your competence in your key result areas.
Brian Tracy -
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?
Mark Levin -
If we conducted ourselves as sensibly in good times as we do in hard times, we could all acquire a competence.
William Feather -
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.
Marc Platt
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No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence.
William Glasser -
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.
Warren Buffett -
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.
Serge Lang -
The Central Bank has a lot to handle and it is best not to interfere with its competence.
Vladimir Putin -
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.
Steve Jobs -
If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.
William Glasser
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The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.
Ada Louise Huxtable -
Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.
Lois McMaster -
An important re-engineering principle is that companies should focus on their core competence and outsource everything else.
Bill Gates -
I do not have the information - I do not have the competence - to ask the countries how they have handled these questions.
Javier Solana -
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.
Warren G. Bennis -
Lowered reliability obviously yields a lesser competence. But lowered breadth does so as well.
Ernest Sosa
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Competence doesn't seem like a big deal until you are forced to realize that your own government has none.
Bruce Sterling -
Competence comes when successful outcomes are produced by values-driven, purposeful behaviors.
Aubrey Daniels -
Competence is the enemy of change!
Seth Godin -
Do not go by oral tradition, by lineage of teaching, by hearsay, by a collection of texts, by logic, by inferential reasoning, by reasoned cogitation, by the acceptance of a view after pondering it, by the seeming competence of a speaker, or because you think, ‘The ascetic is our teacher.’4 But when you know for yourselves, ‘These things are unwholesome; these things are blamable; these things are censured by the wise; these things, if undertaken and practiced, lead to harm and suffering,’ then you should abandon them.
Bhikkhu Bodhi