There's a lot more to competence than a law degree and a modicum of courtroom skill.
Competence doesn't seem like a big deal until you are forced to realize that your own government has none.
No competence is required to be a scarecrow!
Epistemic competence might be posterior to knowledge conceptually, however, while still prior metaphysically.
I don't want to be expected to fall in passively someone else's plans for me. That's what I don't want. I don't want it assumed that I simply don't have any personal goals or wishes of my own. Or any basic competence of my own. That's what I don't want!
I really think I am a nice person. [But] this is not going to be an election on niceness. This is going to be an election on competence.
Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery.
It does not matter what party you are a member of in this great Nation of ours. Accountability and competence are characteristics that Americans value throughout our great land.
Leadership shows judgment, wisdom, personal appeal and proven competence.
You attain aptness by judging while in good shape and in a good situation (good light, good distance, etc. ), through the exercise of good barn-sorting epistemic competence.
A genuine approach to budget cutting - knowing exactly what you're cutting and why, and with what real-life consequences - is beyond my competence, and probably beyond the competence of any politician in America.
Absolute size by itself is no indicator of success and achievement, let alone of managerial competence. Being the right size is.
Competence is no longer scarce.
Anger, pride and competence are our real enemies.
Managing innovation will increasingly become a challenge to management, and especially to top management, and a touchstone of its competence.
we found that success correlates more closely with confidence than it does with competence. Yes, there is evidence that confidence is more important than ability when it comes to getting ahead. This came as particularly unsettling news to us, having spent our own lives striving toward competence.
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.
Choose a challenge instead of competence
I've reached the age where competence is a turn-on.
Success is better than failure; an attempt is a better attempt, it is better as an attempt, if competent than if incompetent; and it is better to succeed through competence - aptly - than through sheer luck.