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  • Discipline is the habit of taking consistent action until one can perform with unconscious competence. Discipline weighs ounces but regret weighs tons.

  • I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

  • Animal knowledge is metaphysically constituted by apt belief, by belief whose correctness manifests the believer's epistemic competence, a relevant disposition to get it right on the matter at hand when one tries to do so.

    Animal   Hands   Trying  
    Source: www.3ammagazine.com
  • The hijab, or sikh turban, or Jewish skullcap are all explicit symbols, but they do not represent a threat or affront to others, and have no bearing on the competence, skills and intelligence of a person.

    Skills   Hijab   Turbans  
  • Certainly, young children can begin to practice making letters and numbers and solving problems, but this should be done without workbooks. Young children need to learn initiative, autonomy, industry, and competence before they learn that answers can be right or wrong.

    David Elkind (1987). “Miseducation: preschoolers at risk”, Alfred a Knopf Inc
  • we found that success correlates more closely with confidence than it does with competence. Yes, there is evidence that confidence is more important than ability when it comes to getting ahead. This came as particularly unsettling news to us, having spent our own lives striving toward competence.

    Katty Kay, Claire Shipman (2014). “The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance---What Women Should Know”, p.11, Harper Collins
  • Ah. Yeah, that would be better. Have you ever driven a bus?" Caine shook his head. "No, I have not." "Strangely enough," Sam said, remembering the long ago moment of terror and competence that had earned him the nicknames School Bus Sam, "I have.

  • The most important thing in terms of your circle of competence is not how large the area of it is, but how well you've defined the perimeter.

  • Emotional intelligence, more than any other factor, more than I.Q. or expertise, accounts for 85% to 90% of success at work... I.Q. is a threshold competence. You need it, but it doesn't make you a star. Emotional intelligence can.

    Stars   Emotional   Needs  
  • Great writers zealously learn the craft of their profession so they can release the power and the depth of their imagination and experience.

  • Knowledge is great. Competence is great. But the combination of both encourages people to trust you and increases your powers of enchantment. And in this world, the combination is a breath of fresh air.

    Guy Kawasaki (2011). “Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions”, p.53, Penguin
  • Competence was attractive.

    Markus Zusak (2014). “Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger”, p.357, Knopf Books for Young Readers
  • Competence is a great creator of confidence.

    Mary Jo Putney (2000). “The Burning Point”, Berkley Publishing Group
  • The adventure is always and everywhere a passage beyond the veil of the known into the unknown; the powers that watch at the boundary are dangerous; to deal with them is risky; yet for anyone with competence and courage the danger fades.

  • Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.

  • Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.

    "Cosmography: A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity". Book by Buckminster Fuller, 1992.
  • The Tories win elections when they lead on economic competence.

  • If you have competence, you know the edge. It wouldnt be a competence if you didnt know where the boundaries lie. Asking whether youve passed the boundary is a question that almost answers itself.

    Lying   Asking   Answers  
  • Artists with a capital 'A' are at ease working in all areas of art, whether it is a contemporary abstract painting or work requiring methods and techniques of the Renaissance Masters.

  • It does not matter what party you are a member of in this great Nation of ours. Accountability and competence are characteristics that Americans value throughout our great land.

  • Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate. It will purge the rottenness out of the system. High costs of living and high living will come down. People will work harder, live a more moral life. Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up from less competent people.

    "The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover - The Great Depression, 1929-1941". Book by Herbert Hoover, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1951.
  • True competence is based on one’s own ability to observe.

    L. Ron Hubbard “The Way To Happiness”, Bridge Publications, Inc.
  • Anger, pride and competence are our real enemies.

    Real   Pride   Enemy  
  • In every analysis you need to isolate what the real assets are and you must not forget to examine the franchise to do business, to review the character and competence of the management and to estimate the outcome if the whole business had to be turned into cash.

    Real   Character   Needs  
  • Today, financial capital is no longer the key asset. It is human capital. Success is no longer about economic competence as the main leverage. It is about emotional intelligence. It is no longer about controls. It is about collaboration. It is no longer about hierarchies. It is about leading through networks. It is no longer about aligning people through structures and spreadsheets. It is about aligning them through meaning and purpose. It is no longer about developing followers. It is about developing leaders.

  • The most striking aspect of linguistic competence is what we may call the 'creativity of language,' that is, the speaker's ability to produce new sentences, sentences that are immediately UNDERSTOOD by other speakers although they bear no physical resemblance to sentences which are 'familiar.

    Creativity   May   Bears  
    Noam Chomsky (2012). “Selected Readings on Transformational Theory”, p.8, Courier Corporation
  • Although our grammar schools are teaching a whole generation computer language to adjust to the technological needs of a Stage II [post survival-focused] society, we have neglected to teach this generation relationship language and conflict resolution skills to address the social and psychological needs of a Stage II society. And when it is taught, in countries like Germany, although called social competence it focuses on workplace teamwork - still on survival, breadwinner oriented work goals.

    "Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 2001.
  • Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

  • The situation around Terri Schiavo was a deeply held conflict over what to do if someone isn't going to return to consciousness or competence. Who will decide? Even there, where we had settled legal rules, we still had disagreement. We're torn about these things.

  • Commentators frequently blame MMORPGs for an increasing sense of isolation modern life. But virtual worlds are less a cause of that isolation than a response to it. Virtual worlds give back what has been scooped out of modern life. The virtual world is in important ways more authentically human than the real world. It gives us back community, a feeling of competence, and a sense of being an important person whom people depend on.

    Real   Giving   People  
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