#competence

Burning dinner is not incompetence but war. ↗

— Marge Piercy

#dinner #incompetence #war

In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job. ↗

— Billy Joel

#actually #age #ax #been #business

Strategic personal qualities you can base your self-confidence on are those which are interesting for all mankind. ↗

— Rossana Condoleo

#life-coaching #life-tips #personal-competences #personal-growth #personal-qualities

The role of any person in this world is to be themselves without damaging the rest. We are important as long as the rest "is". - Rossana Condoleo ↗

— Rossana Condoleo

#ethics #self-awareness #self-importance #self-improvement #social-competence

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 Andreyasn ↗

— Howard Tayler

#humour #military #promotion #sci-fi #weapons

But the technology was accessible, which suggests incompetence on the part of our counterintelligence community and the Clinton Administration, and may in fact rise to the level of treason. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#administration #clinton #clinton administration #community #counterintelligence

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

#aspiration #children #competence #fathers #highest

The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans. ↗

— Dianne Feinstein

#armed forces #because #capable #chance #citizenship

I'm not a great deductive thinker, but I will admit to having competence in a very wide range of things - not being afraid to try to write about baseball, choral music and dinosaurs in the same week and see connections among them. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#admit #afraid #among #baseball #being

Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence. ↗

— Tarja Halonen

#among #competence #inequality #itself #other