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«A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.»
Author: John J. Pershing
| About:
Competence,
Leadership
| Keywords:
competent, contrary, demoralize, demoralized, demoralizing, efficient, incapable, on the contrary, troops
«If the next generation is to face the future with zest and self-confidence, we must educate them to be original as well as competent»
Author: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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competent
«[There is a] curious relationship between a candidate and the reporters who cover him. It can be affected by small things like a competent press staff, enough seats, sandwiches and briefings and the ability to understand deadlines.»
Author: Ronald Steel
| About:
Relationships
| Keywords:
briefings, candidate, competent, deadlines, Reporters, sandwiches, seats, staff
«All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.»
Author: William Hogarth
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competent
«If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.»
«A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.»
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
(Writer)
| About:
Competence,
Jealousy,
Self-confidence
| Keywords:
competent, confident, incapable, insecurities, insecurity, invariably, jealousies, jealousy, self-confident, symptom
«INADMISSIBLE, adj. Not competent to be considered. Said of certain kinds of testimony which juries are supposed to be unfit to be entrusted with, and which judges, therefore, rule out, even of proceedings before themselves alone. Hearsay evidence is inadmissible because the person quoted was unsworn and is not before the court for examination; yet most momentous actions, military, political, commercial and of every other kind, are daily undertaken on hearsay evidence. There is no religion in the world that has any other basis than hearsay evidence. Revelation is hearsay evidence; that the Scriptures are the word of God we have only the testimony of men long dead whose identity is not clearly established and who are not known to have been sworn in any sense. Under the rules of evidence as they now exist in this country, no single assertion in the Bible has in its support any evidence admissible in a court of law. It cannot be proved that the battle of Blenheim ever was fought, that there was such as person as Julius Caesar, such an empire as Assyria. But as records of courts of justice are admissible, it can easily be proved that powerful and malevolent magicians once existed and were a scourge to mankind. The evidence (including confession) upon which certain women were convicted of witchcraft and executed was without a flaw; it is still unimpeachable. The judges' decisions based on it were sound in logic and in law. Nothing in any existing court was ever more thoroughly proved than the charges of witchcraft and sorcery for which so many suffered death. If there were no witches, human testimony and human reason are alike destitute of value.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so, - and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
ask me, competent, for all practical purposes, Judges, lawful
«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)
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appear, competent, deception, deceptions, effective, incompetent, incompetents, ineffective, involves, in operation, military, military operation, operation, though