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Competence
«The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.»
Author: Ben Okri
| About:
Ability,
Competence,
Creativity,
Goodness,
Love,
Overcoming,
Suffering,
Suicide
| Keywords:
About us, authentic, transform
«I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.»
Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
| About:
Competence,
Friends,
Friendship
| Keywords:
competent, energetic
«Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence»
Author: Kingsley Amis
(Critic, Novelist, Poet, Teacher)
| About:
Competence,
Journalism
| Keywords:
displace, incompetence, laziness
«Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Competence,
Philosophy
| Keywords:
morally
«Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, - health, peace, and competence»
«The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.»
Author: Elbert Hubbard
| About:
Adversity,
America and Americans,
Competence
| Keywords:
at home, foes, incompetence, superstition, threaten
«Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
| About:
Competence,
Violence
| Keywords:
incompetent, incompetents, refuge
«Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| About:
Competence
| Keywords:
adequately, ascribe, ascribed, ascribes, explained, incompetence, malice