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  • Empathy represents the foundation skill for all the social competencies important for work.

    Daniel Goleman (2011). “Working With Emotional Intelligence”, p.137, Bantam
  • We should spend less time ranking children and more time helping them to identify their natural competencies and gifts, and cultivate those.

    Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.74, Bantam
  • Elections, for their part, are typically popularity contests rather than measures of candidates' relative competency or effectiveness. Imagine if scientific truth were determined according to which scientist was most popular. To be successful, scientists would have to be charismatic and attractive - and human knowledge would suffer terribly.

  • Such self-referent misgivings creates stress and undermine effective use of the competencies people possess by diverting attention from how best to proceed to concern over personal failings and possible mishaps

    Stress   Self   People  
  • It is to be feared that those who emigrate to New South Wales, generally anticipate too great facility in their future operations and certainty of success in conducting them; but they should recollect that competency cannot be obtained without labour.

    Charles Sturt (1834). “Two expeditions into the interior of Southern Australia: during the years 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831 with observations on ... New South Wales”, p.68
  • We have to have a special insight, or we'll put it in the 'too tough' basket. All of you have to look for a special area of competency and focus on that.

  • What does competency in the long run mean? It means to all reasonable beings, cleanliness of person, decency of dress, courtesy of manners, opportunities for education, the delights of leisure, and the bliss of giving.

    Edwin Percy Whipple (1875). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.293
  • The best medicine that a person can have is the knowledge and experience that he can swim through every tide and change of the time. If you have the mental competency to deal with every situation that arises, then you are very happy, very healthy and a very well-balanced person.

  • I'd like to believe that achieving a leadership position is all about competency, capability and ambition, so I try not to distinguish between the sexes when it comes to giving career advice.

    Sex   Believe   Ambition  
    "West Virginia's Leading Lady: A Q&A with Heather Bresch". Interview with Jennifer Jett, www.wvexecutive.com. February 25, 2014.
  • The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.

    Life   Happiness   Real  
  • Emotional intelligence in the work that we do, in the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program, is about equipping young people with the kinds of skills they need to both identify and manage their emotions, to communicate those emotions effectively, and to resolve conflict nonviolently. So it's a whole set of skills and competencies that, for us, fall under the umbrella of emotional intelligence.

    Fall   Emotional   Skills  
  • When a man is to travel into a far country...one staff in his hand may comfortably support him, but a bundle of staves would be troublesome. Thus a competency of these outward things may happily help us in the way to heaven, whereas abundance may be hurtful.

    Country   Men   Hands  
  • Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

    Beauty   Truth   Work  
    Laurence J. Peter, Raymond Hull (1969). “The Peter Principle”
  • I think in the coming decade we will see well-conducted research demonstrating that emotional skills and competencies predict positive outcomes at home with one's family, in school, and at work. The real challenge is to show that emotional intelligence matters over-and-above psychological constructs that have been measured for decades like personality and IQ. I believe that emotional intelligence holds this promise.

    Real   Believe   Home  
  • Politics in Bolivia must combine social consciousness with professional competency. In my administration, intellectuals from the upper class can be cabinet ministers or ambassadors, as can members of Indian ethnic groups.

    Class   Groups   Bolivia  
  • Trust is clearly a key competency. A competency or skill that can be learned, taught, and improved and one that talent can be screened for.

    Keys   Skills   Taught  
    Source: www.christiansarkar.com
  • I've never seen a great military, political, or corporate leader who was not a great storyteller. Telling stories is a core competency in business, although it's one that we don't pay enough attention to.

  • Who a person is will ultimately determine if their brains, talents, competencies, energy, effort, deal-making abilities, and opportunities will succeed.

    Henry Cloud (2009). “Integrity: The Courage to Meet the Demands of Reality”, p.8, Harper Collins
  • To thrive in this new age of hyper-change and growing uncertainty, it is now an imperative to learn a new competency - how to accurately anticipate the future.

    Age   Growing   Thrive  
    "Forget Lean and Agile. It's Time to Be Anticipatory" by Daniel Burrus, www.wired.com. August, 2014.
  • The ability to establish, grow, extend, and restore trust is the key professional and personal competency of our time.

    Keys   Ability   Grows  
    Stephen R. Covey, Rebecca R. Merrill (2008). “The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything”, p.299, Simon and Schuster
  • It's not a competency if you don't know the edge of it.

    Knows   Ifs   Edges  
    BRK Annual Meeting, Morning Session, buffett.cnbc.com. May 6, 2006.
  • It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making

  • My core competency has really informed my painting. The roots of editing stem from classical paintings - classic painters intended to drive your eye from this conflict to that intrigue, ending with a caprice. That is a montage, that is editing. It became a flipbook in later generations.

    Eye   Editing   Roots  
    Source: www.etonline.com
  • We should spend less time ranking children and more time helping them to identify their natural competencies and gifts and cultivate these. There are hundreds and hundreds of ways to succeed and many, many different abilities that will help you get there.

  • He's at the chocolate teapot end of the competency scale.

    Chocolate   Ends   Scales  
    "A Long Way Down". Book by Nick Hornby, May 7, 2005.
  • Know your core competencies and focus on being great at them. Pay up for people in your core competencies. Get the best. Outside the core competencies, hire people that fit your culture but are cheap.

    People   Focus   Culture  
    "How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It". Book by Mark Cuban, November 20, 2011.
  • Comparing the three domains, I found that for jobs of all kinds, emotional competencies were twice as prevalent among distinguishing competencies as were technical skills and purely cognitive abilities combined. In general the higher a position in an organization, the more EI mattered: for individuals in leadership positions, 85 percent of their competencies were in the EI domain.

  • You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it - low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion - and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.

    Passion   Land   House  
  • Whatever may be the judgement pronounced on the competency of the architects of the Constitution, or whatever may be the destiny of the edifice prepared by them, I feel it a duty to express my profound and solemn conviction . . . that there never was an assembly of men, charged with a great and arduous trust, who were more pure in their motives, or more exclusively or anxiously devoted to the object committed to them.

    Destiny   Men   Profound  
    James Madison, E. H. Scott (1898). “Journal of the Federal Convention”, p.51, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
  • I started as a GED instructor, I created my own GED program, and I realized that a lot of young people that don’t do well academically. It’s not that they don’t have the competency to do it or the skill set to do it; it’s just that they weren’t motivated to learn. They weren’t interested in school, so I started just talking to students and just really going in on them like, “Yo, this is life or death.”

    School   Talking   Skills  
    "Daily Word: Happy Holidays!! (You Have to Want Success As Bad As You Want To Breathe!!)". Interview with Ash Cash, allhiphop.com. December 25, 2012.
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