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~ When we say that trust is an emotional skill, this implies that emotional competence is a necessary part of trust. ~ ~ Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence. ~ ~ Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. ~ ~ The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare ~ ~ The country and the Congress were misled into war. I regret that we were not given the truth; as I said more than a year ago, knowing what we know now, I would not have gone to war in Iraq. And knowing now the full measure of the Bush Administrationís duplicity and incompetence, I doubt there are many members of Congress who would give them the authority they abused so badly. I know I would not. ~ ~ 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. ~ ~ 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 imagineî ~ ~ I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence. ~ ~ In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. ~ ~ Writing is the only trade I know of in which sniveling confessions of extreme incompetence are taken as credentials probative of powers to astound the multitude. ~ ~ Writing is the only trade I know of in which sniveling confessions of extreme incompetence are taken as credentials probative of powers to astound the multitude. ~ ~ 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. ~ ~ But the technology was accessible, which suggests incompetence on the part of our counterintelligence community and the Clinton Administration, and may in fact rise to the level of treason. ~ ~ We thus make a fundamental distinction between the competence (the speaker-hearer's knowledge of his language) and performance (the actual use of language in concrete situations). ~ ~ Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out and is willing to pay for. A product is not quality because it is hard to make and costs a lot of money, as manufacturers typically believe. This is incompetence. Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality. ~ ~ The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence. ~ ~ Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the "naturals," the ones who somehow know how to teach. ~ ~ Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence. ~ ~ I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence. ~ ~ 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. ~ ~ I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence. ~ ~ Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence. ~ ~ And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an outside will? When we are told to deny our senses and subject them to the whim of others? When people devoid of whatsoever competence are made judgesover experts and are granted authority to treat them as they please?These are the novelties which are apt to bring about the ruin ofcommonwealths and the subversion of the state. ~
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