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Letter "I" » incompetents
«Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, who can't are those in cemeteries.»
Author: Everett Dirksen
(Senator)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
asylums, cemeteries, incompetents, static
«I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.»
Author: John Cleese
(Actor)
| Keywords:
bland, businessman, incompetent, incompetents, naturally, portray, portrayed, portraying, portrays
«When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the lightest action but by the most harmless pleasure, I feel Man to be of all living things the most biologically incompetent and ill-organized. Why has he acquired a seventy years life-span only to poison it incurably by the mere being of himself? Why has he thrown Conscience, like a dead rat, to putrefy in the well?»
Author: Cyril Connolly
| Keywords:
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«Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.»
Author: Dr. Laurence J. Peter
(Educator, Writer)
| About:
Opportunity
| Keywords:
equal opportunity, incompetent, incompetents
«If I feel depressed I will sing. If I feel sad I will laugh. If I feel ill I will double my labor. If I feel fear I will plunge ahead. If I feel inferior I will wear new garments. If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice. If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come. If I feel incompetent I will think of past success. If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals. Today I will be the master of my emotions.»
Author: Og Mandino
(Essayist, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
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«Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Competence,
Democracy
| Keywords:
appointment, by election, corrupt, election, election of, incompetent, incompetents, substitutes
«Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
appointment, corrupt, election, form of government, incompetent, incompetents, substitutes
«Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
| About:
Competence,
Violence
| Keywords:
incompetent, incompetents, refuge
«A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective.»
Author: Sun Tzu
(Author, General)
| Keywords:
appear, competent, deception, deceptions, effective, incompetent, incompetents, ineffective, involves, in operation, military, military operation, operation, though
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