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“No scientist is admired for failing in the attempt to solve problems that lie beyond his competence. ... Good scientists study the most important problems they think they can solve. It is, after all, their professional business to solve problems, not merely to grapple with them.”

Thinking Important Problem Science Lying Study Failing Scientist Solve Competence

Author:Peter Medawar

“After a period in which technocrats attempted to become stars and stars to become politicians, the political void has been occupied by the force of mediocrity, which can easily master enough of the star techniques to produce inoffensive personalities and enough of the rational vocabulary to create the sounds of competence.”

Has Beens Enough Political Force Stars Sound Produce Masters Personality Periods Politician Technique Rational Mediocrity Void Vocabulary Competence

Book:Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West

Source: Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West

“Sincerity does not equal competence.”

Doe Equal Sincerity Competence

Author:Isaac Bonewits

“The ideological are individuals ultimately swamped by the complexities of modern life and political and economic relations; they have deliberately attached themselves to some caricatural maven like Falwell or Limbaugh who speaks to their manipulable pathos. The gulf between such individuals' education or intellectual competence or information and the actual issues of our times is simply too great. They were bred to be culture-media for false consciousness, junkies who crawl on their bellies across broken glass for another hit of "clarifying wisdom" from some ideological Pope.”

“Translation is a two-edged instrument: it has the special purpose of demonstrating the learner's knowledge of the foreign language, either as a form of control or to exercise his intelligence in order to develop his competence.”

Two Form Purpose Order Language Special Exercise Instruments Translations Competence Learners Demonstrating Foreign Language

Author:Peter Newmark

“A human group transforms itself into a crowd when it suddenly responds to a suggestion rather than to reasoning, to an image rather than to an idea, to an affirmation rather than to proof, to the repetition of a phrase rather than to arguments, to prestige rather than to competence.”

Humans Ideas Groups Argument Crowds Proof Phrases Reasoning Suggestions Affirmation Repetition Competence Prestige

Book:The Flight from Truth: The Reign of Deceit in the Age of Information

Source: The Flight from Truth: The Reign of Deceit in the Age of Information

“Genius flames and dies, but amiable competence can live forever.”

Dies Forever Genius Flames Competence Live Forever Amiable

Author:James Lileks

“The game's finest mistakes were perpetrated by Djimi Traore, who interrupted his general competence with one air shot, one slice over his own head and a foul so telegraphed that even the lenient referee seemed to have his card out a couple of seconds before contact was made, to show the first yellow of the game.”

Firsts Made Shows Games Mistake Player Air Football Couple Shots Contact Cards Soccer Seconds Yellow Finest Competence Foul Interrupted Referee Lenient

Author:Phil Cornwell

“Absolute size by itself is no indicator of success and achievement, let alone of managerial competence. Being the right size is.”

Achievement Absolutes Size Competence Indicators

Author:Peter Drucker

“How I feel about and behave toward myself is the basic determinant of most of my behavior. If I improve my self-regard, I will find that dozens of behaviors change automatically. If, for example, I increase my feelings of self-competence, I will probably be less defensive, less angered by criticism, less devastated if I do not get a raise, less anxious when I come to work, better able to make decisions, and more able to appreciate and praise other people.”

People Ifs Feels Self Feelings Able Decision Example Behavior Appreciate Criticism Increase Praise Regard Raises Behave Anxious Dozen Competence Devastated Behavior Change

Author:William Schutz

“What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. What is bad? — All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? — The feeling that power is increasing — that resistance has been overcome.”

Men Firsts Has Beens War Feelings Principles Virtue Ought Goodness Weakness Weak Overcoming Humanism Resistance Contentment Competence Will Power What Is Happiness

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“There are, it is true, at present no great prizes in literature such as are offered by the learned professions, but there are quite as many small ones - competences; while, on the other hand, it is not so much of a lottery.”

Hands Literature Profession Prize Competence Lottery

Book:Sammlung

Source: Sammlung

“Emotional intelligence, more than any other factor, more than I.Q. or expertise, accounts for 85% to 90% of success at work... I.Q. is a threshold competence. You need it, but it doesn't make you a star. Emotional intelligence can.”

Needs Stars Emotion Emotional Accounts Factors Emotional Intelligence Competence Expertise Threshold

Author:Warren G. Bennis

“The fundamental difference between Islamic government, on the one hand, and constitutional monarchy and republics, on the other, is this: whereas the representatives of the people or the monarch in such regimes engage in legislation, in Islam the legislative power and competence to establish laws belong exclusively to God Almighty.”

People Hands Government Law Differences Fundamentals Islam Islamic Gossip Republic Regimes Representatives Almighty Legislation Competence Monarchy Monarchs Constitutional Monarchy

Author:Ruhollah Khomeini

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

Persons Differences Ability Environment Surroundings Competence Competent Incompetent

Author:L. Ron Hubbard

“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.”

Ifs Knows Past Asks Answers Knowledge Boundaries Competence

Author:Charlie Munger

“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.”

People Should Country Force Chance Rights Willing Capable Deny Serving Willingness Citizenship Competence Criteria Orientation Armed Forces Armed Forces Day Willingness To Serve

Author:Dianne Feinstein

“The hijab, or sikh turban, or Jewish skullcap are all explicit symbols, but they do not represent a threat or affront to others, and have no bearing on the competence, skills and intelligence of a person.”

Persons Skills Threat Symbols Competence Explicit Affront Hijab Turbans

Author:Randa Abdel-Fattah

“The situation around Terri Schiavo was a deeply held conflict over what to do if someone isn't going to return to consciousness or competence. Who will decide? Even there, where we had settled legal rules, we still had disagreement. We're torn about these things.”

Ifs Stills Consciousness Situation Return Conflict Torn Competence Disagreement

Author:Ezekiel Emanuel

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