Competence is a narrow ideal. Competence makes the trains run on time but doesn't know where they're going.
Leadership shows judgment, wisdom, personal appeal and proven competence.
People differ not only in their ability to do but also in their 'will to do'.
The Tories win elections when they lead on economic competence.
I really think I am a nice person. [But] this is not going to be an election on niceness. This is going to be an election on competence.
Competence is no longer scarce.
In our culture we make heroes of the men who sit on top of a heap of money, and we pay attention not only to what they say in their field of competence, but to their wisdom on every other question in the world.
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.
Look for competence not claims.
Witness the American ideal: the Self-Made Man. But there is no such person. If we can stand on our own two feet, it is because others have raised us up. If, as adults, we can lay claim to competence and compassion, it only means that other human beings have been willing and enabled to commit their competence and compassion to us--through infancy, childhood, and adolescence, right up to this very moment.
When your team questions your competence, your ability to influence is shot.
The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence in himself, and so greatly diminishes his general competence and effectiveness. His habit of mind becomes that of a commander who has lost a decisive and calamitous battle. He quite trusts himself thereafter.
No scientist is admired for failing in the attempt to solve problems that lie beyond his competence. . . . Good scientists study the most important problems they think they can solve. It is, after all, their professional business to solve problems, not merely to grapple with them.
Creativity is not a substitute for competence.
A genuine approach to budget cutting - knowing exactly what you're cutting and why, and with what real-life consequences - is beyond my competence, and probably beyond the competence of any politician in America.
What will matter in the end is not what you bought but what you built; not what you got but what you gave; not what you learned by what you taught. What will matter is not your competence but your character.
Everybody's got a different circle of competence. The important thing is not how big the circle is. The important thing is staying inside the circle.
Managing innovation will increasingly become a challenge to management, and especially to top management, and a touchstone of its competence.
Competence is a great creator of confidence.
Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.