17 quotes found
“Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a portion of mankind, after nature has long since discharged them from external direction (naturaliter maiorennes), nevertheless remains under li...”
“If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.”
“Kevyn, I'm promoting you from Tech Sergeant to Munitions Commander. I want you to take responsibility for all Company weapons.Munitions Commander? Why me?I don't know. Call it "suspicion of extreme...”
“Good luck belongs to those who know how and are not afraid." John Hay to President Theodore Roosevelt”
“You understand how much you know about a subject the moment you give explanations to someone who doesn't know anything about it.”
“Pride in office without competence is as much a sin as competence without confidence.”
“Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence.”
“Professional does not necessarily mean that the person so labelled is good or knows what they are doing. In many a case, it merely means that they do whatever that they are a professional at for a ...”
“If we agree that the education, employment and retirement continuum is no longer a linear cradle to grave construct, then several tools for managing this reality are increasingly proving redundant....”
“Humility and competence are the keys to a successful life.”
“So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.”
“Deep in my heart politeness impresses me more than competence.”
“We pass judgements as to merits in areas we have no competence”
“Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.”
“I have rare moments of competence.”
“Ordinary men wonder why those of only average intelligence so often rise to the highest levels of power, while highly intelligent people generally do not. They fail to understand that reaching the ...”
“Professional’ does not necessarily mean that the person so labelled is good or knows what they are doing. In many a case, it merely means that they do whatever that they are a professional at for a...”
