competence

It is the curse of the competent__ot to be called upon.

I have rare moments of competence.

It__ easier to donate a few thousands to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement. It__ simple to seek substitutes for competence__uch easy substitutes: love, charm, kindness, charity. But there is no substitute for competence.

Biologists will teach us that the survival of the species depends on cooperation, not competition.

. . to be exceptional in martial arts, you must possess the "4 C's" : Consistency, Commitment, Creativity and Competence

Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.

It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an audience. You can't fake it in your own eyes. Your ego is your strictest judge. They run from it. They spend their lives running. It's easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement. It's simple to seek substitutes for competence--such easy substitutes: love, charm, kindness, charity. But there is no substitute for competence.

We pass judgements as to merits in areas we have no competence

Deep in my heart politeness impresses me more than competence.

Ability does catches my attention, but its a politeness in the person that I remember.

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Never compete with your master, because that is disrespect to him! You are your only rival, you compete with yourself, go beyond yourself!

If we agree that the education, employment and retirement continuum is no longer a linear __radle 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.

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.

It was a myth you couldn't function on opiates: shooting up was one thing but for someone like me-jumping at pigeons beating from the sidewalk, afflicted with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder practically to the point of spasticity and cerebral palsy-pills were the key to being not only competent, but high-functioning.

So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.

Humility and competence are the keys to a successful life.

The technique of tredding the success path is making a single step, and if you are kinda afraid to throw the second leg, hire divinity to pull you along.