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| COMPETENCE/ABILITY/SKILL/INTELLIGENCE 1. A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. ~Robert A. Heinlein 2. A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops. ~John J. Pershing 3. A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence. ~Barbara Walters 4. Avoid competency traps. Do not stay only where you are good at things, Go out and be challenged. ~Andrew Creighton 5. Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt. ~Unknown 6. Character is higher than intellect. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson 7. Common sense is not so common. ~Voltaire 8. Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. ~Laurence J. Peter 9. Everyone rises to their level of incompetence. ~Laurence J. Peter 10. 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. ~Allan Bloom 11. I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. ~Mark Twain 12. If a leader demonstrates competency, genuine concern for others, and admirable character, people will follow. ~T. Richard Chase 13. If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't. ~Emerson M. Pugh 14. I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde. ~Dolly Parton 15. In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most; it is the honest man who doesn’t know what he is doing. ~Pablo Casals 16. It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up. ~Unknown 17. It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. ~Albert Einstein 18. Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. ~Ambrose Bierce 19. Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart. ~Henri Frederic Amiel 20. Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence. ~Napoleon Bonaparte 21. No letters after your name are ever going to be a total guarantee of competence any more than they are a guarantee against fraud. Improving competence involves continuing professional development ... That is the really crucial thing, not just passing an examination. ~Colette Bowe 22. Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun. ~George Scialabra 23. Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything. ~Peggy Noonan 24. Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly. ~Jonathan Swift 25. The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred. ~Aldous Huxley 26. The difference between intelligence and education is this: intelligence will make you a good living. ~Charles F. Kettering 27. The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it. ~Laurence J. Peter 28. The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald 29. There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. ~Don Herold 30. These are days when no one should rely unduly on his "competence." Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed. ~Walter Benjamin 31. Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. ~Isaac Asimov 32. We should not only use the brains we have, but all that we can borrow. ~Woodrow Wilson 33. We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. ~Albert Einstein 34. What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. ~Sigmund Freud | |
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