Best Competent Quotes

In this fast-paced business world, female leaders need to make sure they’re not perceived as pushy, aggressive or competent. One way to do that is to alter your leadership style to account for the (sometimes) fragile male ego.

Man, who preys both on the vegetable and animal species, is himself a prey to neither. He too possesses the reproductive principle far beyond the degree requisite for the bare continuance of his species. What becomes of the surplus of human life to which this principle is competent?

I am afraid if there is anything to be afraid of. A precipice cannot hurt you. Lions and tigers can. The streets of New York I consider more dangerous than the Matterhorn to a thoroughly competent and careful climber.

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

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

I fancy myself as being a fairly competent person.

I would rather have a competent extremist than an incompetent moderate.

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

Service makes men competent.

Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.

I just love music – by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.

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.

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

[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.

[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.

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

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.

My dad is a great manager. He’s not just competent – he’s very clever.

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.

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

Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up the wrecks from less competent people.

A human being feels able and competent only so long as he is permitted to contribute as much as or more than he has contributed to him.

Being competent means the ability to control and operate the things in the environment and the environment itself.

Any competent actor could have done what I did.

The differences between a competent person and an incompetent person are demonstrated in his environment (surroundings).

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

I believe there’s something in the Bible about ‘Thou shalt not call anyone insane who owns and is competent with more firearms than you own sharp sticks.’

In the scientific community you find competent teachers and original researchers, just as in the musical community you find many good performers but very few good composers.

Each day, it seemed, another law was passed to impoverish and diminish them, punishing them for whatever success they achieved and rewarding their less competent and industrious neighbors.

No man is competent unless he can stalk alone and armed in the wilderness.

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

Bullying consists of the least competent most aggressive employee projecting their incompetence on to the least aggressive most competent employee and winning.

When you sign with a label, they do insist upon certain rights, and if you have a competent attorney, your rights will be protected.