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If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.
— William Glasser
Our campaign is the opposite of 'competence.'
— William J. Clinton
To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education.
— John Dickey
She had always looked for sparks of competence, like a diamond prospector in an unpromising wasteland.
— Ayn Rand
Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.
— Izaak Walton
Creativity is not a substitute for competence.
— Mason Cooley
Competence is the enemy of change!
— Seth Godin
The onus of Connecting rightly, Conceiving brightly, Conveying quietly, and Concluding wisely are the capatencies (capacity and competence) of man
— Priyavrat Thareja
General competence is on the fucking decline.
— Bret Easton Ellis
The most important thing in terms of your circle of competence is not how large the area of it is, but how well you've defined the perimeter.
— Warren Buffett
The test of true competence is the end result.
— L. Ron Hubbard
In short, professional competence is not enough to be a good leader; good leaders must truly care about those entrusted to their care.
— Simon Sinek
Men are not rich or poor according to what they possess but to what they desire. The only rich man is he that with content enjoys a competence.
— Roger Chamberlain
Competence comes when successful outcomes are produced by values-driven, purposeful behaviors.
— Aubrey C. Daniels
Leaders empower individuals by building trust and coaching competence in their job roles and networking skills.
— Kenneth H. Blanchard
If you have competence, you pretty much know its boundaries already. To ask the question (of whether you are past the boundary) is to answer it.
— Charlie Munger
Competence doesn't seem like a big deal until you are forced to realize that your own government has none.
— Bruce Sterling
Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.
— Tarja Halonen
But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.
— John Cleese
We would like to have every middle and high school become a place where there will be lots of examples of youth competence and confidence.
— Bill Drayton
Look for competence not claims.
— Anthony De Mello
The role of any person in this world is to be themselves without damaging the rest. We are important as long as the rest "is". - Rossana Condoleo
— Rossana Condoleo
We need somebody with a proven track record of competence, leadership and what you see is what you get.
— Anna Soubry
Attitude is no substitute for competence.
— Eric Raymond
Healthy mature adults use both Sensing and Intuition but not with equal competence, confidence and conscious control.
— Flavil R. Yeakley Jr.
Social prejudice is a strong force, but no match for simple competence when skill is in urgent demand and short supply.
— Diana Gabaldon
You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.
— Douglas Coupland
Human beings, regenerate or unregenerate, have neither the right nor the competence to dictate to a sovereign God how He is to be worshipped.
— Joseph C. Morecraft III
There was an expert competence in his manner of working; his movements were easy, intelligently economical.
— Ayn Rand
He gave her his hand, sensing the thin strong rod of obdurate competence that was the armature of her artsy Village style.
— Michael Chabon
If we have a strength, it is in recognizing when we are operating well within our circle of competence and when we are approaching the perimeter.
— Warren Buffett
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
— Theodore Roosevelt
I have rare moments of competence.
— Peter V. Brett
Under a good administration, the Nile gains on the desert. Under a bad one, the desert gains on the Nile.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery.
— Bertrand Russell
Stories told around the water-cooler as well as statistics confirm that a man's competence is more likely to be presupposed, a woman's questioned.
— Kathleen Hall Jamieson
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
The RNC was run so badly you could walk through their deepest competence and not get your ankles wet.
— John Fund
The situation in Iraq and the reckless economic policies in the United States speak to one issue for me, and that is the competence of our leader,
— Nancy Pelosi
Moeller also immediately discounted insults about competence, as the incompetent never question their competence about anything.
— John Scalzi
Flair is what makes the difference between artistry and mere competence. Cmdr. William Riker
— Star Trek The Next Generation
Sincerity does not equal competence.
— Isaac Bonewits
The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
the competence of a speaker has no relevance to the truth
— Robert M. Pirsig
Writers of either gender ought to be able to do the opposite sex-that's one basic test of competence, after all.
— Julian Barnes
Anger, pride and competence are our real enemies.
— Dalai Lama
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 Bujold
Your greatest competence are your courage and confident.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Love what you do. Get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age. And let the chips fall where they man.
— Jon Stewart
It reflects no great honour on a painter to be able to execute one thing well.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence.
— Ron Suskind
They looked more like day laborers than seamen.
— Erik Larson
What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was asked. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.
— John Buchan
The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
No matter the intervention, developing readers must spend substantial instructional time actually reading if they are to attain reading competence.
— Donalyn Miller
Here's my theory about meetings and life: the three things you can't fake are erections, competence and creativity.
— Douglas Coupland
Good luck belongs to those who know how and are not afraid." John Hay to President Theodore Roosevelt
— John Taliaferro
People value honesty. They value integrity. They value competence and courage and all those kinds of things.
— Richard A. Kidd
To know one's own limitations is the hallmark of competence.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
You can't fake competence, creativity, or sexual arousal.
— Douglas Coupland
Biologists will teach us that the survival of the species depends on cooperation, not competition.
— Robert Holden
The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements.
— George W. S. Trow
To know whom to strike is competence; to know how to strike is skill; to know where and when to strike is art; to know why to strike is victory.
— James Roby
we confused the manager's general competence and maturity with his task-relevant maturity.
— Andrew S. Grove
Churches often confuse loyalty with competence.
— Phil Cooke
My competence is my complete confidence in Christ.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
One of the best uses of your time is to increase your competence in your key result areas.
— Brian Tracy
There's a lot more to competence than a law degree and a modicum of courtroom skill.
— Fred Thompson
Never let your life depend on the competence of someone whose life isn't also on the line.
— Brandon Sanderson
Three criteria to inspire as well as cultivate intercultural trust - sincerity, competence and reliability.
— Sherwood Fleming
All three elements - assessment, challenge, and support - should be part of your plan to increase your ethical competence.
— Inc SAGE Publications
Friendships are nice. So is competence.
— Michael Crichton
The Tories win elections when they lead on economic competence.
— Maurice Saatchi
The best defense against partisanship is expertise.
— Roger Angell
I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.
— Ayrton Senna
When you're a mile outside the limits of your competence, there is some comfort to be had in sounding like you know what you're doing.
— Mike Carey
. . to be exceptional in martial arts, you must possess the "4 C's" : Consistency, Commitment, Creativity and Competence
— Soke Behzad Ahmadi
In Islam, the legislative power and competence to establish laws belong exclusively to God Almighty.
— Ruhollah Khomeini
Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.
— Peter F. Drucker
To be a manager requires more than a title, a big office, and other outward symbols of rank. It requires competence and performance of a high order.
— Peter Drucker
Act with purpose, courage, confidence, competence and intelligence until these qualities 'lock in' to your subconscious mind.
— Brian Tracy
Competence is the creed of the technocrat who makes sure the gears mesh but doesn't for a second understand the magic of the machine.
— George H. W. Bush
There are three qualities a leader must exemplify to build trust: competence, connection, and character.
— John C. Maxwell
Success is the consequence of courage, commitment, and competence. You cannot seek a consequence - it has to be created. - Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
— Anisha Motwani
Success demands a high level of logistical and organizational competence.
— George S. Patton