Anger, pride and competence are our real enemies.
First be a magnificent artist and then you can do whatever, but the art must be first.
Having spent years ruining the housing markets with their interference, leading to a housing meltdown that has taken the whole economy down with it, politicians have now moved on into micro-managing automobile companies and medical care. They are not going to stop unless they get stopped. And that is not going to happen until the voters recognize the fact that political rhetoric is no substitute for competence.
Ah. Yeah, that would be better. Have you ever driven a bus?" Caine shook his head. "No, I have not. " "Strangely enough," Sam said, remembering the long ago moment of terror and competence that had earned him the nicknames School Bus Sam, "I have.
Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise. . . specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.
Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
Good teaching is forever being on the cutting edge of a child's competence.
You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.
Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.
I want to remind you that success in life is based on hard slogging. There will be periods when discouragement is great and upsetting, and the antidote for this is calmness and fortitude and a modest yet firm belief in your competence. Be sure that your priorities are in order so that you can proceed in a logical manner, and be ever mindful that nothing will take the place of persistence.
What will matter in the end is not what you bought but what you built; not what you got but what you gave; not what you learned by what you taught. What will matter is not your competence but your character.
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.
To know whom to strike is competence; to know how to strike is skill; to know where and when to strike is art; to know why to strike is victory.
True competence is based on one’s own ability to observe.
Competence is the enemy of change!
There's a lot more to competence than a law degree and a modicum of courtroom skill.
. . . true self-esteem comes from competence, not the other way around.
The leaders of the Pahlavi regime, in an attempt to forestall the rising tide of the Islamic revolutionary movement, were hard at work to cast doubt on the question of the Imam Khomeini's position as a Marja'a (a top religious authority) and in this way, undermine public faith in his academic, political and religious competence.
Suffering dispels the illusion that we have the strength and competence to rule our own lives and save ourselves.
By stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence.