#qualification

Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#am #because #comes #depressed #down

I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but the Navy, having left school at 13. ↗

— Sean Connery

#because #had #having #i #left

When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that. ↗

— James Dean

#actor #anyone #director #exactly #following

At one time I thought he wanted to be an actor. He had certain qualifications, including no money and a total lack of responsibility. ↗

— Hedda Hopper

#certain #had #i #including #lack

It not infrequently happens that persons without any other special qualification than the drama of their lives are precipitated into important political positions. ↗

— Charles Edward Merriam

#drama #happens #important #infrequently #into

I don't say tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it. ↗

— Mary Wortley

#greatest #i #impossible #impudence #impudent

...the qualifications that I have to speak on world affairs are exactly the same ones Henry Kissinger has, and Walt Rostow has, or anybody in the Political Science Department, professional historians—none, none that you don't have. The only difference is, I don't pretend to have qualifications, nor do I pretend that qualifications are needed. I mean, if somebody were to ask me to give a talk on quantum physics, I'd refuse—because I don't understand enough. But world affairs are trivial: there's nothing in the social sciences or history or whatever that is beyond the intellectual capacities of an ordinary fifteen-year-old. You have to do a little work, you have to do some reading, you have to be able to think but there's nothing deep—if there are any theories around that require some special kind of training to understand, then they've been kept a carefully guarded secret. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#qualifications #world-affairs #science

The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#become #chief #error #infallibility #leader

It is great to add some glamour to the food industry, like television shows have done for the food world and inspiring people to work in the industry. The flip side of that is unfortunately people think that after they get their qualifications, they get their invitation to compete on 'Top Chef.' ↗

— Curtis Stone

#after #chef #compete #done #flip

I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but to join the Navy, having left school at 13. ↗

— Sean Connery

#because #had #having #i #join