competence

Power of productivity is not in working but relaxing

All too often people pretend to be professional. "Professionalism" is sometimes a facade for fraud. Be pro, but be real. Honesty and transparency combined with character, competence and real results is the key to being a true pro.

Any work is always improvable, you cannot really finish the work, you can only abandon it out of tiredness or incompetence.

She remembered Fiona saying something once, there was nothing more attractive than a competent man. At the time she'd been a young girl, without true understanding, but now she agreed.