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Tag Name "Competence" (179)

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Competence is a big word. It is important. I almost want to nuance it with the idea of giftedness because sometimes you can teach a lot of skills on exposition but a person may not have the competence or the giftedness to do it. Therefore, it is very important to have that.
Ravi Zacharias
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Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.
Mark Twain
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To know whom to strike is competence to know how to strike is skill to know where and when to strike is art to know why to strike is victory.
James Roby
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People value honesty. They value integrity. They value competence and courage and all those kinds of things.
Richard A. Kidd
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Competence is no longer scarce.
Seth Godin
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...This jewel is the wisdom and compassion that it takes to act not on behalf of ourselves but for all beings. This is where real confidence and competence come from. Once we possess this jewel, our life becomes blessed.
Sakyong Mipham
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The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.
John Dickey
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I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
Billy Joel
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I don't want to be expected to fall in passively someone else's plans for me. That's what I don't want. I don't want it assumed that I simply don't have any personal goals or wishes of my own. Or any basic competence of my own. That's what I don't want!
Nora Roberts
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The drive to resist compulsion is more important in wild animals than sex, food, or water... The drive for competence or to resist compulsion is a drive to avoid helplessness.
Martin Seligman
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The president Donald Trump has not yet been able to demonstrate the stability, nor some of the competence that he needs to demonstrate in order to be successful. He also recently has not demonstrated that he understands the character of his nation.
Bob Corker
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Competence goes beyond words. It's the leader's ability to say it, plan it, and do it in such a way that others know that you know how - and know that they want to follow you.
John C. Maxwell
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Our confidence...is not in the competence of our own knowing, but in the faithfulness and reliability of the one who is known.
Lesslie Newbigin
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There must be a realm of truth beyond political competence, that's why there must be a separation of churches, but if religion is bad and a bad religion is one that gives an ultimate sanctity to some particular cause.
Reinhold Niebuhr
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Stories told around the water-cooler as well as statistics confirm that a man's competence is more likely to be presupposed, a woman's questioned.
Kathleen Hall Jamieson
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That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.
J. M. Coetzee
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What could be more important than equipping the next generation with the character and competence they need to become successful
Colin Powell
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There's a lot more to competence than a law degree and a modicum of courtroom skill.
Fred Thompson
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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.
Michael Grant
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The growth of New England was a result of the aggregate efforts of a busy multitude, each in his narrow circle toiling for himself, to gather competence or wealth. The expansion of New France was the achievement of a gigantic ambition striving to grasp a continent. It was a vain attempt.
Francis Parkman
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Intimacy is at the heart of competence. It has to do with understanding, with believing, and with practice. It has to do with the relationship to one's work.
Max De Pree
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The differences between a competent person and an incompetent person are demonstrated in his environment (surroundings).
L. Ron Hubbard
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Genius flames and dies, but amiable competence can live forever.
James Lileks
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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
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