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Letter "C" » competence
«Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise - specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine»
Author: Allan Bloom
| About:
Competence,
Family
| Keywords:
aspiration, competence, fathers, mothers, specialize, specialized, specializing
«The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.»
Author: Daniel P. Moynihan
(Politician)
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
competence, encounter, exciting, The single
«Religious matters are to be separated from the jurisdiction of the state not because they are beneath the interests of the state, but, quite to the contrary, because they are too high and holy and thus are beyond the competence of the state»
Author: Isaac Backus
| Keywords:
beneath, competence, contrary, holy, interests, jurisdiction, separated, The State, thus, to the contrary
«... by stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence.»
Author: Michael J. Gelb
| Keywords:
accelerate, accelerated, accelerates, accelerating, competence, perceived, stretching
«Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.»
Author: Peggy Noonan
(Author, Journalist, Political analyst)
| Keywords:
combination, competence, sincerity
«Over the years I have developed a picture of what a human being living humanely is like. She is a person who understand, values and develops her body, finding it beautiful and useful; a person who is real and is willing to take risks, to be creative, to manifest competence, to change when the situation calls for it, and to find ways to accommodate to what is new and different, keeping that part of the old that is still useful and discarding what is not.»
Author: Virginia Satir
(Educator, Phychologist)
| Keywords:
accommodate, accommodated, accommodates, accommodating, Body Parts, calls, competence, creative person, developed, develops, discarding, discards, humanely, keeping, manifest, manifesting, old person, picture, Real part, risks, situation, The New Year, useful, values
«Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.»
Author: Dr. Laurence J. Peter
(Educator, Writer)
| About:
Competence
| Keywords:
beholder, beholders, competence, contact, contact lenses, eye contact, Eye of, Eye of the Beholder, lenses, The Lens
«And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an outside will? When we are told to deny our senses and subject them to the whim of others? When people devoid of whatsoever competence are made judgesover experts and are granted authority to treat them as they please?These are the novelties which are apt to bring about the ruin ofcommonwealths and the subversion of the state.»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Doubt,
Mankind,
Religion
| Keywords:
apt, bring about, compelled, competence, devoid, devoid of, disorders, experts, free state, novelties, slavishly, submit, subversion, subversions, whatsoever, whim
«To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.»
Author: Orison Swett Marden
| About:
Beginning,
Choice,
Men,
Success,
Youth
| Keywords:
competence, elements, honorable, taint, tainted, Taints, The Young Man, young man
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