Competent people are the most resistant to change
I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
Having talent isn't merely about being competent; confidence is actually a part of that talent.
I was not a great ballhandler. I just worked very hard at it, and I got to be a good ballhandler-a competent ballhandler-but never a great ballhandler.
I think the fault is more with historicists who have stubbornly failed to develop a good theory of historicity. By simply resting on the feeble laurels of prima facie plausibility ('Jesus existed because everyone said so') and subjective notions of absurdity ('I can't believe Jesus didn't exist!'), the existence of Jesus has largely been taken for granted, even by competent historians who explicitly try to argue for it.
The infinitely competent can be uncreative.
He who knows how to teach a child is not competent for the oversight of a child's education unless he also knows how to train a child.
Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.
Men are competent in groups that mimic the playground, incompetent in groups that mimic the family
Pat has been instrumental in what we've done here so far and the most selfish thing for me is that I want to see what we've done placed in the hands of the most competent person, and that's Pat. No one would come close to being able to continue to build on what we've done here so far like he will.
People I know who succeed don't mind working. Those who are competent seem to like doing things well -- not stopping because they haven't accomplished what they wanted to on the first go-round. They're willing to do it twenty times, if necessary. There's an illusion that the good people can easily do something, and it's not necessarily true. They're just determined to do it right. I was impressed by hearing one of the women at Radcliffe talk about writing a poem, how many revisions a single poem sometimes has to go through -- fifty or sixty revisions to come out with a poem sixteen lines long.
Seek advice from those who are competent through their own experience and success to give it.
If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.
Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
Any competent actor could have done what I did.
To give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization. g. to apportion farm lands and homesteads for these segregated persons where they would be taught to work under competent instructors for the period of their entire lives.
I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier.
A lot of very competent people sometimes make errors.