But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.
John Cleese

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
Laurence J. Peter

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.
Allan Bloom

I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.
Ayrton Senna

If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.
William Glasser

If you look at the 19 hijackers who came to the United States in Sept. 11 to commit those acts, if you'd looked at them before they got onto a plane, you could probably say the same thing. There were various levels of expertise, various levels of competence.
Robert Mueller

Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence.
Niklaus Wirth

It does not matter what party you are a member of in this great Nation of ours. Accountability and competence are characteristics that Americans value throughout our great land.
Jim Costa

It is undeniable that a woman's ability to stretch and pursue her total competence outside the home and get paid what she's worth for it makes for happier and more fulfilled women.
Kyle D. Pruett

No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence.
William Glasser

Our all-volunteer force continues to prove itself with a great level of professionalism, personal commitment and a technical competence that is quite remarkable.
Geoff Davis

Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.
Peggy Noonan

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.
Peter Drucker

That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.
J. M. Coetzee

The Commission has five commissioners from each side, plus three alternates, so all together sixteen members, people who are independent from the two governments, who have a lot of integrity, professional competence, and who have credibility in their respective countries.
Jose Ramos-Horta

The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.
John S. Dickey

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.
Daniel P. Moynihan

The U.N. has been so disappointing to date on the whole Rwanda issue that despite the people they've sent through, and I have no doubt their competence, in the end, the decision is going to be made by other people and not by them.
Tony Greig

There's a lot more to competence than a law degree and a modicum of courtroom skill.
Fred Thompson

To address questions of scientific responsibility does not necessarily imply that one needs technical competence in a particular field (e.g. biology) to evaluate certain technical matters.
Serge Lang