Competence Quotes

• Competence can step in where popularity cannot go.

  

  Jordan Peterson
  • Step
  • Popularity
  • Competence

• Animal knowledge is metaphysically constituted by apt belief, by belief whose correctness manifests the believer's epistemic competence, a relevant disposition to get it right on the matter at hand when one tries to do so.

  

  Ernest Sosa
  • Knowledge
  • Animal
  • Belief

• we found that success correlates more closely with confidence than it does with competence. Yes, there is evidence that confidence is more important than ability when it comes to getting ahead. This came as particularly unsettling news to us, having spent our own lives striving toward competence.

  

  Katty Kay
  • Important
  • Confidence
  • Ability

• Competence comes when successful outcomes are produced by values-driven, purposeful behaviors.

  

  Aubrey Daniels
  • Competence
  • Produced
  • Behaviors

• The only way one should buy stocks is if you understand the underlying business. You stay within the circle of competence. You buy businesses you understand.

  

  Mohnish Pabrai
  • Should
  • Businesses
  • Stocks

• A nominee to Supreme Court must possess the competence, character and temperament to serve on the bench.

  

  Herb Kohl
  • Character
  • Temperament
  • Benches

• 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
  • Suffering
  • Teaching
  • Tradition

• In my view animal knowledge is apt belief, where not only the belief its existence and content but also its correctness is creditable to the subject's competence.

  

  Ernest Sosa
  • Knowledge
  • Animal
  • Existence

• Many men want wealth,--not a competence alone, but a live-story competence. Everything subserves this; and religion they would like as a sort of lightning-rod to their houses, to ward off by and by the bolts of Divine wrath.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Men
  • Wealth
  • Competence

• Epistemic competence might be posterior to knowledge conceptually, however, while still prior metaphysically.

  

  Ernest Sosa
  • Knowledge
  • Metaphysical
  • Posterior

• U.N. employees, including senior leadership, should be selected based on merit and competence while continuing endeavors to achieve gender parity and geographical balance.

  

  Miroslav Lajcak
  • Balance
  • Should
  • Employees

• Competence is no longer a scarce commodity.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Commodity
  • Competence

• Trust is a function of two things: character and competence. Character includes your integrity, your motive and your intent with people. Competence includes your capabilities, your skills, and your track record. Both are vital.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Character
  • Integrity
  • Track

• 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.

  

  Ernest Sosa
  • Knowledge
  • Justification
  • Competence

• The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements.

  

  George W. S. Trow
  • Power
  • Competence
  • Agreements

• I do love competence in a man.

  

  Katharine Weber
  • Love
  • Competence

• When I accept someone's testimony, I am thus only a small part of the full seat of epistemic competence, which might include many others in a long chain. My own contribution might then be slight, just through the perceptual and linguistic competence involved in knowing what someone is saying or writing, etc.

  

  Ernest Sosa
  • Writing
  • Contribution
  • Testimony

• Success is better than failure; an attempt is a better attempt, it is better as an attempt, if competent than if incompetent; and it is better to succeed through competence - aptly - than through sheer luck.

  

  Ernest Sosa
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Luck

• I know I've got the ability to bring a sense of menace to the screen. I have that specific competence, and it's generally kept me working.

  

  Harry Dean Stanton
  • Screen
  • Competence
  • Sense of menace

• Some aim to be deft, others to be laboriously careful. Neither dexterity nor conscientiousness is enough.

  

  Chai Lu
  • Enough
  • Aim
  • Careful

• Trust is equal parts character and competence... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Character
  • Looks
  • Equal

• You attain aptness by judging while in good shape and in a good situation (good light, good distance, etc.), through the exercise of good barn-sorting epistemic competence.

  

  Ernest Sosa
  • Exercise
  • Judging
  • Competence

• It's not enough to have values without vision ; you want to be good, but you want to be good for something. On the other hand, vision without values can create a Hitler . An empowering mission statement deals with both character and competence; what you want to be and what you want to do in your life.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Character
  • Vision
  • Enough

• Trust has two dimensions: competence and integrity. We will forgive mistakes of competence. Mistakes of integrity are harder to overcome.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Mistake
  • Integrity
  • Overcoming

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