Top 448 Competent Quotes & Sayings

There are actors who can pull of a writer's lines; I am not competent enough to do that.

Luck is an accident that happens to the competent.

Bullying consists of the least competent most aggressive employee projecting their incompetence on to the least aggressive most competent employee and winning.

You know, I'm really not that competent at describing things musically.

Service makes men competent.

Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in God.

If I have done a competent job, I should be respected for my competency.

The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in woman's construction is this: There shall be no limit put upon your intercourse with the other sex sexually, at any time of life. The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in man's construction is this: During your entire life you shall be under inflexible limits and restrictions, sexually. During twenty-three days in every month (in absence of pregnancy) from the time a woman is seven years old till she dies of old age, she is ready for action, and competent. As competent as the candlestick is to receive the candle. Competent every day, competent every night. Also she wants that candle - yearns for it, longs for it, hankers after it, as commanded by the law of God in her heart.

A competent portraitist knows how to imply the profile in the full face.

Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at.

I would rather have a competent extremist than an incompetent moderate.

Socialists believe otherwise - a man is not competent enough to make decision should he use seatbelt, should he buy insurance, and the same man is competent enough to elect president and government.

My dad is a great manager. He's not just competent - he's very clever.

I'm a competent novelist. I'm getting better. But I'm a really good short story writer.

I alwaysthought of myself as a competent, minor poet. I know who I'm up against.

The infinitely competent can be uncreative.

Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent

Reengineering cannot be entrusted to the semi-competent, the hangers-on with nothing better to do.

Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.

From this day forward, Flight Control will be known by two words: "Tough" and "Competent." Tough means we are forever accountable for what we do or what we fail to do. We will never again compromise our responsibilities. Every time we walk into Mission Control we will know what we stand for. Competent means we will never take anything for granted. We will never be found short in our knowledge and in our skills.

I fancy myself as being a fairly competent person.

The weird thing about acting is you're the most competent when you're at your best, but you have to be validated.

When you have some skills but don't fully understand your environment, there is no way you can be a plus one. At best, you can be a zero. But a zero isn't a bad thing to be. You're competent enough not to create problems or make more work for everyone else. And you have to be competent, and prove to others that you are, before you can be extraordinary. There are no short-cuts, unfortunately.

One may have a right to be unconventional and even eccentric, so long as one is fully competent and a decent person; but one's ideal as a professor should be to conduct oneself as an admirable human being: just, kind, tolerant, competent, committed, and good-humored.

But in this country, while you have to be competent to pull off a terrorist attack, you don't have to be competent to cause terror. All you need to do is start plotting an attack and - regardless of whether or not you have a viable plan, weapons or even the faintest clue - the media will aid you in terrorizing the entire population.

If I could be really competent, that goes such a long way toward things, because the majority of things are not competent. If I can be competent, and have moments of originality, that's all I would ask for.

History makes one wise, but not competent to solve concrete problems.

The future belongs to the competent

Competition is for the competent.

I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.

No man is competent to manage another.

Government is not competent enough to regulate.

Talent isn't as important as the work and dedication necessary to become competent.

You have to have competent people evaluating the athlete, not the housewives!

I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.

Claude Rains is my favorite actor. He's so utterly polished and competent, no matter what he does.

A lot of very competent people sometimes make errors.

If you have life's experiences with you, nothing can stop you from being a competent actor.

If there is not competent Opposition, the government that comes to power won't have anyone to hold them accountable.

No man is competent unless he can stalk alone and armed in the wilderness.

Always surround yourself with people who are even more talented and competent than you.

And the most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain.

Seek advice from those who are competent through their own experience and success to give it.

Often the desire to appear competent impedes our ability to become competent, because we more anxious to display our knowledge than to learn what we do not know.

Indeed there are many competent people who are plagued by a sense of inefficacy, and many less competent ones who remain unperturbed by impending threats because they are self-assured of their coping capabilities

Photography is the easiest medium with which to be merely competent. Almost anybody can be competent. It's the hardest medium in which to have some sort of personal vision and to have a signature style.

Any competent actor could have done what I did.

All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.

Rob Hall was, without doubt, the most competent guide in mountaineering.

The first is that good writing consists of mastering the fundamentals (vocabulary, grammar, the elements of style) and then filling the third level of your toolbox with the right instruments. The second is that while it is impossible to make a competent writer out of a bad writer, and while is equally impossible to make a great writer out of a good one, it is possible, with lots of hard work, dedication, and timely help, to make a good writer out of a merely competent one

The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.

I always want to be - and appear to be - competent. When I don't achieve that, I don't respond well.

The analyses ... often become too competent to be comprehensible.

Competent people are the most resistant to change

You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don't think him competent.

What is competent? Who is it that can adjudicate what is competent or not competent? If the guys that are running the most important banks in our country aren't competent enough, well then, who is competent enough?

Women tend to recall the details of an emotionally competent stimulus, using more of their left hemisphere to do the processing. Men tend to recall the gist aspects of an emotionally competent stimulus, using more of their right hemisphere to do the processing.

The vast majority of Secret Service agents are incredibly competent people.

I have a very competent case of ADD.

I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.