“I've always believed that you have to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time.”— Phil Bredesen
“Competence means keeping your head in a crisis, sticking with a task even when it seems hopeless, and improvising good solutions to tough problems when every second counts.”— Chris Hadfield
“We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and we do not need to be professionals to know if our leaders are competent.”— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”— Robert A. Heinlein
“It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.”— William A. Henry III
“It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.”— Joseph Kirkland
“What do people really want from work? They want to be competent and to achieve.”— David C. McClelland
“The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.”— Daniel Patrick Moynihan