We can teach a lot of things but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students he'll never be a competent teacher.

In both religion and science some people are dishonest exploitative incompetent and exhibit other human failings.

I do not support peace in the Middle East. And I do not support Arafat. He is a stupid incompetent fool!

It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department.

Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

The conduct of President Bush's war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the war on and occupation of Iraq a strategic policy disaster for the United States.

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination and if it's on the page it makes your job a lot easier.

Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do so they can be ready to follow.

Government is inherently incompetent and no matter what task it is assigned it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible.

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations Clinton's mediation.

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that once it is competently programmed and working smoothly it is completely honest.

There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

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