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If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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Kevyn, I'm promoting you from Tech Sergeant to Munitions Commander. I want you to take responsibility for all Company weapons. Munitions Commander? Why me? I don't know. Call it "suspicion of extreme competence" on my part.- Captain Tagon & Commander Kevyn AndreyasnHoward Tayler
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Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a portion of mankind, after nature has long since discharged them from external direction (naturaliter maiorennes), nevertheless remains under lifelong tutelage, and why it is so easy for others to set themselves up as their guardians. It is so easy not to be of age. If I have a book which understands for me, a pastor who has a conscience for me, a physician who decides my diet, and so forth, I need not trouble myself. I need not think, if I can only pay - others will easily undertake the irksome work for me. That the step to competence is held to be very dangerous by the far greater portion of mankind..Immanuel Kant
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Good luck belongs to those who know how and are not afraid." John Hay to President Theodore RooseveltJohn Taliaferro
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You understand how much you know about a subject the moment you give explanations to someone who doesn't know anything about it.Luigina Sgarro
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Pride in office without competence is as much a sin as competence without confidence.Peter Tremayne
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Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence.Ron Suskind
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Humility and competence are the keys to a successful life.Clifford Cohen
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So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.Flannery OConnor
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Professional’ does not necessarily mean that the person so labelled is good or knows what they are doing. In many a case, it merely means that they do whatever that they are a professional at for a living, not as a hobby.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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If we agree that the education, employment and retirement continuum is no longer a linear “cradle to grave” construct, then several tools for managing this reality are increasingly proving redundant. Job descriptions used for hiring are one such example. Hiring managers often write these as a reflection of their own experiences, ignoring the fact that we are entering an era where the emphasis should be less on ready competence and more on transferable skills.Gyan Nagpal
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Deep in my heart politeness impresses me more than competence.Amit Kalantri
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We pass judgements as to merits in areas we have no competenceBenson IV
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Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.Peter F. Drucker
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I have rare moments of competence.Peter V. Brett
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Ordinary men wonder why those of only average intelligence so often rise to the highest levels of power, while highly intelligent people generally do not. They fail to understand that reaching the highest levels of power has nothing to do with admired attributes such as intelligence and competence. The predominant characteristic of those who rise to the highest levels of power is a total disregard for the consequences — including death — that will befall thousands, or hundreds of thousands, or millions of human beings if it is deemed necessary to attain his (or her) goals. Generally speaking, it is this total disregard for humanity that has distinguished ‘rulers’ throughout history. .Dave Champion