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Competent Quotes

Excuses are tools of the incompetent

Twitter post from Aug 12, 2013

Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up the wrecks from less competent people.

"The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover - The Great Depression, 1929-1941". Book by Herbert Hoover, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1951.

The CIA is an incompetent bureaucracy, generally.

"Torture, Drones, and Hollywood: A Former CIA Operative Talks". Interview with Ed Rampell, progressive.org. December 23, 2014.

I don't know enough to be incompetent.

"Fictional character: Kleinman". Shadows and Fog, www.imdb.com. 1991.

Failure to grasp centrifugal meaning is incomplete reading; failure to grasp centripetal meaning is incompetent reading.

Northrop Frye, Alvin A. Lee (2006). “The Great Code: The Bible and Literature”, p.76, University of Toronto Press

Are you lazy or just incompetent?

“Jeff Bezos biography: five things we learn about the Amazon founder” by Leo Benedictus, www.theguardian.com. November 6, 2013.

I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.

Interview With Zahid Hussain, newslinemagazine.com. July 2002.

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). “Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier”, McGraw-Hill Companies

The future belongs to the competent

Brian Tracy (2005). “Create Your Own Future: How to Master the 12 Critical Factors of Unlimited Success”, p.47, BookBaby

as though "the Truth" were such an innocent and incompetent creature as to require protectors!

Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: The Critique of the Traditional Morality and the Philosophy of the Past”, p.20, e-artnow