Quotes: Competence

If you look at the 19 hijackers who came to the United States in Sept. 11 to commit those acts, if you’d looked at them before they got onto a plane, you could probably say the same thing. There were various levels of expertise, various levels of competence.

There’s a lot more to competence than a law degree and a modicum of courtroom skill.

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the “naturals,” the ones who somehow know how to teach.

But then acting is all about faking. We’re all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.

The Commission has five commissioners from each side, plus three alternates, so all together sixteen members, people who are independent from the two governments, who have a lot of integrity, professional competence, and who have credibility in their respective countries.

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it’s so rare.

I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.

The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.