Competence Quotes
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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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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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No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence.
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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 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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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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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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An important re-engineering principle is that companies should focus on their core competence and outsource everything else.
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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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The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.
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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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Competence comes when successful outcomes are produced by values-driven, purposeful behaviors.
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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.
