52 Competence Quotes for You to Enjoy

Employee loyalty begins with employer loyalty. Your employees should know that if they do the job they were hired to do with a reasonable amount of competence and efficiency, you will support them. Harvey Mackay

Loyalty You Will Job Employees Support Employee Know Employer Hired Were Efficiency Begins Them Should Your Reasonable Amount Competence

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become. C. S. Lewis

Life Daily Respect Reality Become Our Adds Our Lives Simply Does Provides Literature Requires Describe Deserts Lives Daily Life Competence Necessary

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Government You Rare Single Exciting Most Because Encounter Thing Competence

Basically, to lead without a title is to derive your power within the organisation not from your position but from your competence, effectiveness, relationships, excellence, innovation and ethics. Robin S. Sharma

Innovation Ethics Power Relationships Excellence Lead Within Without Effectiveness Title Organisation Your Derive Competence Basically Position

You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal. Douglas Coupland

You Creativity Sexual Fake Competence

What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence. Patrick Lencioni

Honesty Plus Clients Interested Really Competence

People judge you really quickly, at first just on your facial features. There are two dimensions - warmth and competence. You can think of them as trustworthiness and strength. They're first judging you on warmth; evaluating whether or not you are trustworthy. That's much more important to them than whether or not you're competent. Amy Cuddy

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Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals', the ones who somehow know how to teach. Peter Drucker

You must have confidence in your competence. Elijah Cummings

You Confidence Must Your Competence

Training programs shouldn't be designed to deliver competence; they must be dedicated to producing excellence. Serious organizations don't aspire to be comfortably above average. Brandon Webb

Training Programs Must Above Excellence Deliver Comfortably Average Producing Organizations Aspire Dedicated Serious Designed Competence

I like stories where people have to face some big demons internally. It always seems to be an element of horror, because it's pretty scary to have to face yourself and the things you're most worried about: your own abilities and your own capabilities and your own level of competence in being a hero. Scott Snyder

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President Obama and members of his administration constantly express rage and anger over events totally within their control. It's an odd and unsettling fact of American life that so many Americans seem to think that such expressions of frustration should substitute for actual competence. Ben Shapiro

Life Anger Frustration Events Control Rage Think President President Obama Members Obama Administration Constantly Totally Seem Fact Unsettling Over Within Odd His American Substitute American Life Should Many Express Expressions Actual Competence

I don't ascribe to myself any special competence in economic insight. I translate what I hear from highly intelligent people into political and philosophical propositions. Henry Kissinger

Myself People Political Philosophical Insight Economic Highly Hear Intelligent Intelligent People Any Ascribe Translate Special Competence

The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience. John Dickey

Education Made Men See Both End Whole Conscience Competence

In 1987, I had my first opportunity to provide 'advice and consent' on a Supreme Court nominee. At that time, I stated that the qualifications essential for evaluating a nominee for the bench included 'integrity, character, legal competence and ability, experience, and philosophy and judicial temperament.' On that test, Elena Kagan fails. John McCain

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I would say 'competence' actually might be slightly more important than passion. I understand that it is important to feel strongly about things, but give me a competent dentist over a passionate dentist any day, if only because something about the phrase 'passionate dentist' is deeply unnerving. Alexandra Petri

Day Me Passion Important Say Slightly Unnerving Would Phrase About Give Strongly Something Give Me More Only Feel Over Because Understand Passionate Dentist Than Any Might Deeply Actually Things Competence Competent

Politicians are very experienced - maybe too experienced - at using body language to signal power and competence. But what these politicians are much more likely to struggle with, or just neglect to do altogether, is communicate warmth and trustworthiness. Amy Cuddy

In every union roles are assumed, some traditional, some not. My husband used to pay his own bills, I used to call my own repairman. But as marriages progress, you surrender areas of your own competence, often without even knowing it. Ayelet Waldman

You Surrender Progress Husband Own Pay Every Assumed Marriages Some My Own Area Knowing Call Without Traditional His Roles Often Your Used Union Bills Even Competence

The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans. Dianne Feinstein

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The cloud is still really just a bunch of servers, owned by someone or something, whose decisions and competence must be trusted. This applies to everything from Google Docs to Gmail: Putting our data out there really means putting it 'out there.' Douglas Rushkoff

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