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.

Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.

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.

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.

To many a man and sometimes to a youth there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.

It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

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

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.

Marriage laws the police armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

For four years I listened to stories of intelligence failures and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system but that the system is so arcane.

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home and these are ignorance superstition and incompetence.

I think every chef not just in America but across the world has a double-edged sword - two jackets one that's driven a self-confessed perfectionist thoroughbred hate incompetence and switch off the stove take off the jacket and become a family man.

To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education.

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

The criteria for serving one's country should be competence courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation we deprive them of their rights of citizenship and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans.

That's what liberalism is all about is promoting incompetence on the basis it's fair because people would be the best if they weren't discriminated against.

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

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

In an age of incompetence I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.

I am as I've said merely competent. But in an age of incompetence that makes me extraordinary.