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«Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise - specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine»
Author: Allan Bloom
| About:
Competence,
Family
| Keywords:
aspiration, competence, fathers, mothers, specialize, specialized, specializing
«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
«Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.»
«I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.»
Author: Dame Edith Sitwell
(Biographer, Critic, Poet)
| About:
Competence,
Taxation
| Keywords:
incompetent, pianos
«Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.»
Author: Dr. Laurence J. Peter
(Educator, Writer)
| About:
Competence
| Keywords:
beholder, beholders, competence, contact, contact lenses, eye contact, Eye of, Eye of the Beholder, lenses, The Lens
«A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.»
Author: Marlene Dietrich
(Actress)
| About:
Competence,
Family
| Keywords:
abdicate, abdicated, abdicates, delegate, delegated, delegates, delegating, dilemma, dilemmas, duties, incompetence, paradox, realizing, sons
«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
«A competent portraitist knows how to imply the profile in the full face.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Competence
| Keywords:
full-face, imply, portraitist, profile, profiles
«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.»
«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
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