All Quotes By Tag: Competence
“When we are asked to act, we do so only if we feel at least minimally competent to do what is asked of us. We need to feel that our actions will ultimately be successful. Without some expectation of success, we are unlikely to act at all and will rather resign ourselves to letting fate take its course. We often redirect our thinking from our actual goals to the goal of preserving a sense of our competence. This act of self-protection is essential to maintaining a minimum capacity to act.”
“What we need is a new God. Somebody who knows what the fuck he’s doing.”
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“Our competence comes from God’s grace.”
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“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.”
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“Self-assurance reassures others and reassures yourself.”
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“Greatness means setting out to make some difference somewhere to someone in someplace.”
“Focus on how far you have come in liferather than looking at the accomplishments of others.”
“Your confidence kills your fears when they appear. Your competence makes them not to appear at all. Be bold; do it.”
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“Your competence or success have no significance if you are devoid of compassion and kindness.”
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“If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.”
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