Competences Quotes & Sayings

There are, it is true, at present no great prizes in literature such as are offered by the learned professions, but there are quite as many small ones - competences; while, on the other hand, it is not so much of a lottery. — James Payn

A business capability is the firm's ability to integrate, build, and reconfigure internal and external competences to address rapidly changing environments. — Pearl Zhu

It is amazing, the number of business executives and senior leaders who get to be appointed and elevated to positions of authority on the basis of technical competences whilst lacking essential grooming on basic good manners and customs of conduct that must come from the home training process. — Archibald Marwizi

Leaders need 5 core competences: soul, head, hand, heart, body. Where do you need to grow? — Aubrey Malphurs

Strategic personal qualities you can base your self-confidence on are those which are interesting for all mankind. — Rossana Condoleo

The low points I had all helped make up my character, so I probably wouldn't want to do away with them because I like being flawed and I like having them help me grow and change and become better and stronger. — Drew Barrymore

Get the most out of everything in your life; the happiness and the sadness, the success and the failure ... get a good perspective of what life is all about. Let the orchestra of your life play all the notes, the high notes, the low rumblings of the difficulties and perplexities that all we all face. — Jim Rohn

My phone rang, and although it wasn't a sinister time of night, and although nothing had happened that I would later see as foreshadowing, I knew, I knew. — Hanya Yanagihara

Ayn Rand called her novella Anthem a "hymn to man's ego." My approach to Anthem the play was to provide the story a further dimension through music and sound. The work is now larger than a hymn. It's really "spoken opera." — Jeff Britting

I had to stop sneaking around girls' houses like some kind of dumb-ass cat burglar. Clearly it got me nowhere good. — Kieran Scott

Organizations know that they cannot wait until the right person with the right traits shows up. Increasingly there is doubt that even charisma and individual competences are enough — Marilyn Jacobson