A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
Robert A. Heinlein
I have a theory as to why I`ve been around so long. I don`t think I`m all that good, I think I`m competent, I know how to do what I`m supposed to do. I know how to play the piano, I know how to sing in key, I know how to write music & lyrics, I know how t...
Billy Joel
I`m fairly competent as a director and actor, but I am Mr. Neurotic as a writer. I just don`t have enough confidence in my abilities to take criticism well. I take it personally. Start with `It`s a masterpiece,` and then tell me what you think could be ch...
Tim Robbins
You basically have a group of four spies who are chosen for a mission they feel for the fact of how competent they are and how their expertise and they`re the right one for the job. But ultimately they find out they`ve been actually chosen for their incom...
Matt LeBlanc
Why do otherwise sane, competent, strong men, men who can wrestle bears or raid corporations, shrink away in horror at the thought of washing a dish or changing a diaper?
Alex Coletti
We think the prior management has been so incompetent that bringing in competent management has the potential to make dramatic improvements.
Gary Robinson
We need competent, transparent leadership, ... I see myself as a Mandela figure. Six years to get it done, then turn it over to the younger generation.
Antonio Carlos
We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can`t relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he`ll never be a competent teacher.
Andrew Neff
Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help you to get there, students do competent work. The lowest passing grade in the real world is competence. Why do schools accept so much less?
Andrew Neff
They have some very competent guards and they love to run screen and rolls. So we will have to be ready for that. This will be a very tough game.
Barbara Charone
There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits.
Andrew Bosomworth
The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
Albert Haldemann
That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence, they must receive competent assurances concerning the integrity, fidelity, and constancy each of other.
Alexis Truchan
Regardless of the history of IQ tests in the family, if I see nurturing, warm, interactive people who read emotional signals well and interact well, usually I see happy, competent and bright children,
Barbara Frost
Pat has been instrumental in what we`ve done here so far and the most selfish thing for me is that I want to see what we`ve done placed in the hands of the most competent person, and that`s Pat. No one would come close to being able to continue to build o...
Angel Anderson
Now that John Thompson is successful, ... I find it very difficult to fire him because the pigmentation in his skin is white. Besides, he`s competent and he`s my friend.
John Thompson
Men are very competent in their workplace - and this is going to sound sexist - women are better at running households and juggling lots of things, kids and scheduling and that kind of thing.
Patricia Heaton
Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about.
Barney Frank
In his 4 years in the White House, President Carter worked to make the Federal Government more competent and compassionate and more responsive to the American people.
American Society
If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom.
Bill Wyman
I think it`s a mistake for these highly educated and capable women to make that choice [to stay home]. I am saying an educated, competent adult`s place is in the office.
Ashley Gronewoller
I know what I don’t know, ... I hire competent people and let them make decisions. In Bill’s case, he was someone who I’d gotten to know as one of the smartest people I’d ever met.
Robert Kraft
Christine and I haven`t raised our children. A whole community of selfless Christians has contributed to helping them become faithful, competent adults.
Alan Levy
But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had.
Alice Marquardt
I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
