Do what you like and are good at.

Ladies and gentlemen, when you paint your lips, eyes, nails, hair, side-beards, or whatever, to look beautiful or handsome, don’t forget your up stairs, if you don’t go up there to put things in order,...

It’s easy to run to others. It’s so hard to stand on one’s own record. You can fake virtue for an audience. You can’t fake it in your own eyes. Your ego is your strictest...

Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence.

Your driver is on the steer, driving you and you can feel free to doze in the car; this is trust built on competence. Competence is to ensure that your actions put people’s hearts at...

There are so many inconsistencies between their data and their conclusions you have to question either their competence or their integrity.

Any work is always improvable, you cannot really finish the work, you can only abandon it out of tiredness or incompetence.

In any place work is done, you cannot accept anything less than competence if you want high quality.

Skills make dreams happen. They build economies. They make people rich and famous. In today’s world, the demands for skills are staggering. Government, business and individuals have too much to achieve, their goals are huge....

Under a good administration, the Nile gains on the desert. Under a bad one, the desert gains on the Nile.

When all help is stopped, when your loved ones started doubting your competence, when failure seems almost confirmed, but no matter what, if you make one more attempt, that final step will fetch you the...

The cost of a range of appropriate courses and training activities is much less than the cost of incompetence.

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 lifelong tutelage, and why it is so...

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...

Ability does catches my attention, but its a politeness in the person that I remember.

My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a...

Together, we will not fail Oregonians, … Oregon will be prepared, and they will receive the competence and compassion from government they should expect.

This is not over competence, … He certainly is competent. This is the whole issue of ideology, and if the ideology is one that you go in with a predetermined agenda? Then I don’t care...

Deep in my heart politeness impresses me more than competence.

Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.

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 competence” on my part.-Captain Tagon...

Pride in office without competence is as much a sin as competence without confidence.

Anyone who can’t compete only with himself defeats the very first and the basic purpose of doing anything really excellent.

It was a myth you couldn’t function on opiates: shooting up was one thing but for someone like me-jumping at pigeons beating from the sidewalk, afflicted with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder practically to the point...

Having good intentions isn’t enough when actions fail; you also need some bad intentions so that you look competent.

Our culture doesn’t seem to value competence as much as it used to. Now we seem to want to do and get everything as quickly as possible, which often leads to mediocre work and products....

We pass judgements as to merits in areas we have no competence

[Her supporters call her] The Iron Lady, … have brought equal competence, strength and courage to everything that they do.

We do deal with massive amounts of data on a regular basis, and we have a high degree of competence. But sometimes, one of the cats you’re herding to the barn gets away from you.

It seems that the more we learn about our work, the easier and the more interesting it becomes to us. Tasks that used to be tedious now make sense, and we see how they’re related...

I Love You! Three words that mean nothing if not followed through with actions. It seems to be more relevant in the terms of showing verses saying. Anyone can say it, because there are different...

We need more love, to supersede hatred, —We need more strength, to resist our weaknesses, —We need more inspiration, to lighten up our inner mind. —We need more learning, to erase our ignorance, —We need...

Complements from your companion will do you no good, but if you get complements from your competitors it means you are really doing good.

It is the curse of the competent―not to be called upon.

So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.

The technique of tredding the success path is making a single step, and if you are kinda afraid to throw the second leg, hire divinity to pull you along.

When the competent men of the system are compelled to quit, the system will soon quit itself.

The differences between a competent person and an incompetent person are demonstrated in his environment (surroundings).

They all have excellent resumes… So what I’m trying to find out is how they will behave under pressure.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

Let it be a small gain or big gain never do lesser than one’s ability, let it be a pain or a pleasure never accept more than one’s share.

Being competent means the ability to control and operate the things in the environment and the environment itself.

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 highest levels of...