What will matter is not your competence, but your character. What will matter is not how many people you knew but how many will feel a lasting loss when you are gone. What will matter is how long you will be remembered, by who and for what?
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.
Remember, 'Rome was not built in a day. ' Instant success is never possible. Competence results only from sustained, consistent, self-disciplined effort over an extended period of time.
Our campaign is the opposite of 'competence. '
First be a magnificent artist and then you can do whatever, but the art must be first.
The individual attributes of warmth and competence are often perceived to be negatively correlated. That doesn't mean they actually are, but that's how people perceive the world. So, cruel people, those who gave negative book reviews, for instance, were seen as less likeable but as more intelligent.
Sincerity does not equal 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.
By stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence.
In hospitals I feel palpable comfort. I feel the competence, the expertise, so much education and money, all of the supplies sterile, everything packaged, sealed tight. My fears evaporate when the automatic doors shush open.
Competence is a great creator of confidence.
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.
Churches often confuse loyalty with competence.
When I accept someone's testimony, I am thus only a small part of the full seat of epistemic competence, which might include many others in a long chain. My own contribution might then be slight, just through the perceptual and linguistic competence involved in knowing what someone is saying or writing, etc.
I want to remind you that success in life is based on hard slogging. There will be periods when discouragement is great and upsetting, and the antidote for this is calmness and fortitude and a modest yet firm belief in your competence. Be sure that your priorities are in order so that you can proceed in a logical manner, and be ever mindful that nothing will take the place of persistence.
If we have a strength, it is in recognizing when we are operating well within our circle of competence and when we are approaching 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.
The game's finest mistakes were perpetrated by Djimi Traore, who interrupted his general competence with one air shot, one slice over his own head and a foul so telegraphed that even the lenient referee seemed to have his card out a couple of seconds before contact was made, to show the first yellow of the game.
Success is better than failure; an attempt is a better attempt, it is better as an attempt, if competent than if incompetent; and it is better to succeed through competence - aptly - than through sheer luck.
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.