Quotes of Competent - somelinesforyou

“ Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one. ”

- Margaret Atwood

“ The great law of culture: Let each become all that he was created capable of being. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ Many of us are more capable than some of us… but none of us is as capable as all of us!! ”

- Tom Wilson

“ Her time is about 4.33, which she's capable of. ”

- David Coleman

“ I want to be all that I am capable of becoming. ”

- Katherine Mansfield

“ Today the world is the victim of propaganda because people are not intellectually competent. More than anything the United States needs effective citizens competent to do their own thinking. ”

- William Mather Lewis

“ The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in woman's construction, is this: There shall be no limit put upon your intercourse with the other sex sexually, at any time of life. During twenty-three days in every month from the time a woman is seven years old till she dies of old age, she is ready for action, and competent… ”

- Mark Twain

“ The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish. ”

- Charles M. Schwab

“ The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming. ”

- Katherine Mansfield

“ The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ He who is proficient is learning, but deficient in morals, is more deficient than proficient. ”

- Unknown

“ Cheating is often more efficient. ”

- Jeri Ryan

“ I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. ”

- Plato

“ A human being feels able and competent only so long as he is permitted to contribute as much as, or more, than he has contributed to him. ”

- Elbert Hubbard

“ 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. ”

- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“ The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. ”

- Joseph Conrad

“ We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves. ”

- Thomas A. Edison

“ It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing. ”

- Jose Marti

“ Be yourself, who else is better qualified? ”

- Frank J. Giblin

“ Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of. ”

- Charles de Lint

“ We are all capable of evil thoughts, but only very rarely of evil deeds: we can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts. ”

- Cesare Pavese

“ Our intention is that they will be made public. ”

- Tony Blair

“ If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid. ”

- John Maynard Keynes

“ Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. ”

- Isaac Asimov

“ A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective. ”

- Sun tzu

“ Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian. ”

- Lee Simonson

“ All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession. ”

- William Hogarth
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