Competent Quotes

Look somewhere else for someone who can follow you in your researches about numbers. For my part, I confess that they are far beyond me, and I am competent only to admire them.

We need a different kind of leadership in the White House that understands how to get bureaucracies competent again.

Parenting is about being competent and responsible. It's not about gender, necessarily.

We have to create jobs, put money into the taxpayer's pocket and Hillary Clinton has not shown that she is competent to be President of the United States.

No man is competent to manage another.

He who knows how to teach a child is not competent for the oversight of a child's education unless he also knows how to train a child.

Though, probably, no competent geologist would contend that the European classification of strata is applicable to the globe as a whole; yet most, if not all geologists, write as though it were so.

Quacks are a part of our culture, and we all fall prey to them. Who among us can say, for sure, that even our own personal physicians are honest and competent?

A free society, to be truly worthy of that name, owes healthy, competent individuals the right to end their lives on their own terms.

The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.

About First Landing by Robert Zubrin: Someday I'd like to read a story about competent people on Mars.

What I'm really addicted to is getting people to understand that if their kids aren't competent readers coming out of middle school, it's really going to be hard for them in high school.

I will never become a horse trainer, a biologist, a person competent with a hammer. My loves were my loves.

A lot of very competent people sometimes make errors.

Christy has not been given a fair shake. She has not been identified as a competent premier.

Properly speaking, we learn from those books only that we cannot judge. The author of a book that I am competent to criticise would have to learn from me.

To an incompetent judge I must not lie, but I may be silent; to a competent I must answer.

National security advisors, like White House Chiefs of Staff, their job generally if they're - if they're competent and qualified and effective is to be honest brokers in the White House.

I alwaysthought of myself as a competent, minor poet. I know who I'm up against.

I fancy myself as being a fairly competent person.

History makes one wise, but not competent to solve concrete problems.

Service makes men competent.

A married woman has the same natural right to acquire and hold property, and to make all contracts that she is mentally competent to make reasonably, as has a married man, or any other man.

Often the desire to appear competent impedes our ability to become competent, because we more anxious to display our knowledge than to learn what we do not know.

There are a lot of reasons people don't talk about climate change. One of them has to do with the language of science, and people feeling not competent about this issue.

The weird thing about acting is you're the most competent when you're at your best, but you have to be validated. It's a weird kind of vicious circle.

Reengineering cannot be entrusted to the semi-competent, the hangers-on with nothing better to do.

I think it's about having a competent president, and I don't really think gender has to do with how Hillary Clinton will lead.

I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.

My dad is a great manager. He's not just competent - he's very clever.

Brant's an idealist, and he's competent. There are few more dangerous combinations in this world... Heroes are even more dangerous than idealists.

You know, I'm really not that competent at describing things musically.

Even if I disagree with Obama on many, many things, he is certainly qualified to be president. He is certainly competent to be president.

No member of the faithful could possibly deny that the Church is competent in her magisterium to interpret the natural moral law.

I'm a huge Obama fan. I think it's such an unbelievably great thing to have a President who's competent and not insane.

[James Comey] term extends for some time yet. There's no plans at the moment in changing that term. And we've enjoyed our relationship with him and find him to be extraordinarily competent.

[Donald Trump] has confidence in Director [James] Comey. We have had a great relationship with him over the last several weeks. He's extremely competent.

The best voice actors all have a live performance background. And are competent, fearless, incredibly creative actors.

'Argo,' 'Lincoln,' and 'Zero Dark Thirty,' three films honored with Best Picture Oscar nominations, lionize their Washington-anchored protagonists as crafty, competent, and virtually incorruptible.

When you smile you don't only appear to be more likable and courteous, you appear to be more competent.

Competent people are the most resistant to change

I feel qualified and competent to try anything that's thrown my way because I don't have to be a success. I can just try.

It has been thought that the people are not competent electors of judges learned in the law. But I do not know this to be true, and, if doubtful, we should follow principle.

Democrats consider the people as the safest depository of power in the last resort; they cherish them, therefore, and wish to leave in them all the powers to the exercise of which they are competent.

Although our prospect is peace, our policy and purpose are to provide for defense by all those means to which our resources are competent.

He has a competent person, I think who will be confirmed as HHS secretary, Congressman Tom Price.

First of all, legally, it's hard to do these things[ get rid of ObamaCare]. Donald Trump needs a lot of competent people.

And the most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain.

Marketing is so powerful that it can make even an extremely untalented musician a one-hundred-hits wonder.

When the competent men of the system are compelled to quit, the system will soon quit itself.