"One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself."

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Source : Kim Stanley Robinson (2009). “Galileo's Dream”, p.380, Spectra

Kim Stanley Robinson

#Inability Quotes #Incompetence Quotes #Chiefs Quotes

“The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart. You just have to open up your heart and not be afraid to get them out.”
“you just can't wait to get out of your head, can you?" "if you were in here you might want that too.”
“I'm not single, I'm just wait for my girlfriend to quit playing hide and seek.”
“I guess the kid had everything but the luck.”

Source : "Ari: Life and Times of Aristotle Socrates Onassis". Book by Peter Evans, p. 217, 1986.
“I always see things that I can improve. But frankly with Stripes, I'm surprised at how effective it is, even today, and how vibrant that movie is and how juicy the performances all are.”
“Much has been said and continues to be said of what little concern the Turks had for the Acropolis treasures.”
“As much as I try to grow as a lyricist, I tend to laugh at even calling myself that, because I think that my actual talents lie more in arrangements than they do words.”
“Our constitution, in short, is a judge-made constitution, and it bears on its face all the features, good and bad, of judge-made law.”

Source : A.V. Dicey, J.W.F. Allison (2013). “The Law of the Constitution”, p.230, Oxford University Press

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