If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Stichwörter: humor work competence
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
Theodore RooseveltStichwörter: productivity competence busy-learning job-doing
Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a portion of mankind, after nature has long since discharged them from external direction (naturaliter maiorennes), nevertheless remains under lifelong tutelage, and why it is so easy for others to set themselves up as their guardians. It is so easy not to be of age. If I have a book which understands for me, a pastor who has a conscience for me, a physician who decides my diet, and so forth, I need not trouble myself. I need not think, if I can only pay - others will easily undertake the irksome work for me.
That the step to competence is held to be very dangerous by the far greater portion of mankind...
Stichwörter: reason nature mankind danger laziness cowardice competence tutelage pastor physician
It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an audience. You can't fake it in your own eyes. Your ego is your strictest judge. They run from it. They spend their lives running. It's easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement. It's simple to seek substitutes for competence--such easy substitutes: love, charm, kindness, charity. But there is no substitute for competence.
Ayn RandStichwörter: virtue self-respect nobility charity competence
He can occasionally see to an enemy," she conceded. "If he manages to get his sword pointed in the right direction and the enemy does him the favor of falling upon it in precisely the right way.
Lynn KurlandStichwörter: competence incompetence sword-fighting
My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.
Thomas HardyStichwörter: art passion writing creativity creation competence skill-technique
I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
Billy JoelStichwörter: inspirational competence
it is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didnt
Martin Van BurenStichwörter: competence
They all have excellent resumes... So what I’m trying to find out is how they will behave under pressure.
Hyman G. RickoverStichwörter: integrity competence pressure
Kevyn, I'm promoting you from Tech Sergeant to Munitions Commander. I want you to take responsibility for all Company weapons.
Munitions Commander? Why me?
I don't know. Call it "suspicion of extreme competence" on my part.
-Captain Tagon
Stichwörter: humour weapons military sci-fi competence promotion
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