Competence Quotes

The person who`s had the most impact on acting since Marlon Brando, the only person who`s really changed acting, is Julia Roberts. I call it the Julia Roberts School of Acting. It`s an excess of competence. She`s got all these imitators, and they just basically get on screen and smile. The idea is, smile and say your line. And Julia Roberts herself - well, that`s one thing. But she has a ton of pupils who get on screen and basically just smile. And their smile is so winning, and so wonderful, that you say, `I like that person`. And it drives me crazy, because the point of performance is not to be liked. My grandfather`s a politician, and he can never understand. He says, `You`ve got to stop playing these people no one would ever like!` But my job is not to be liked. It`s to make interesting things. I want to actually do something, rather than just be me on screen. Julia Roberts does something with it, but all her imitators. It`s like the imitators of Raymond Carver, that generation of writers copying him, I guess: it looks simple to them and they copy it, but they`re missing the thing that made it special.

Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.

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

Here's my theory about meetings and life; the three things you can't fake are erections, competence and creativity. That's why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say, `Mmmmmm. Interesting.` If pressed, they'll add, `I'll have to get back to you on that.` Then they don't say anything else.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help you to get there, students do competent work. The lowest passing grade in the real world is competence. Why do schools accept so much less?

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

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

I feel it necessary to make these points clear because of the references to my firm in the Mayor`s article, ... Further references to my firm in a manner which clearly reflect intent to throw blame in my direction will not be tolerated .... Placing into issue this firm`s competence may well serve to waive the City`s privilege with respect to documents in our possession which are necessary to demonstrate the falsity of those assertions.

automatic scholarships to Niger Delta indigenes so as to give them higher levels of competence to enable them compete for higher level jobs in the petroleum industry.

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.

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