The price of loyalty is incompetence.
The machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies riddled through and through with incompetence.
Adventure is a sign of incompetence.
Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence.
There's a right way and a wrong way to do things. If you make a chair, you want to make a nice chair. You want people to admire it. I think doing something well is a form of respect for humanity in general. I have found that all incompetence comes from not paying attention, which comes from people doing something that they don't want to do. And doing what you don't want to do means either you have no choice, or you don't think that the moments of your life are worth fighting for.
A bad workman quarrels with the man who calls him that.
Attempted murder should carry the same penalty as first-degree murder. Otherwise, you're simply rewarding incompetence.
I know the well of my maternal incompetence is deep but I am determined to siphon up a calm and breathing hope for him.
I think her comments - Hillary's [Clinton] comments just don't get the same attention that Trump's do. For example, she lied to a Gold Star mother. She lied to pre - Patricia Smith, the mother of Sean Smith, who - who was killed at Benghazi, I believe, because of her incompetence, her incompetence in failing to secure that mission.
America is an enormous country with enormous resources. The basic American spirit creates the Wright Brothers and Henry Ford and Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg. Once we start rolling, we're pretty formidable. And the incompetence of the government is so massive that even a moderately good executive could regain much ground pretty rapidly. Donald Trump is a very good executive.
Behold the crucifix; what does it symbolize? Pallid incompetence hanging on a tree.
Oligopoly is an imperfect monopoly. Like the despotism of the Dual Monarchy, it is saved only by its incompetence.
I don't know what I'm doing, but my incompetence has never stopped my enthusiasm.
All the 'too close to call' announcements are not due to incompetence. . . It's caution.
Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence. Think about it. People aren't out to get you, they're just stupid.
The utter incompetence of the U. N. is literally incomprehensible.
Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence.
Carelessness with details sinks more careers than anyone will admit.
It is as though the ancestors who made language and knew from what bestiality its use rescued them are saying to us: Beware of interfering with its purpose! For when language is seriously interfered with, when it is disjoined from truth, be it from mere incompetence or worse, from malice, horrors can descend again on mankind.
Incompetence is the true crisis.
