Incompetence famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence.
-- Brian Eno -
Whenever you're faced with an explanation of what's going on in Washington, the choice between incompetence and conspiracy, always choose incompetence.
-- Charles Krauthammer -
All the 'too close to call' announcements are not due to incompetence ... It's caution.
-- Chris Matthews -
When focusing only on one's credentials one boasts his own incompetence in his capacity for discernment of the individual.
-- Criss Jami -
Let me not fuss and fret at my incompetence but be still and know that Thou art God.
-- Emily Carr -
It happens; incompetence is rewarded more often than not.
-- Jeff Lindsay -
Secrecy breeds incompetence because where there is failure, failure is kept secret.
-- Julian Assange -
One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.
-- Kim Stanley Robinson -
Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.
-- Kingsley Amis -
Carelessness with details sinks more careers than anyone will admit.
-- Lois Wyse -
The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.
-- Malcolm Wallop -
The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself.
-- Orrin Woodward -
If for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, many points of fascinating interpretation are open to the paranoid imagination.
-- Richard Hofstadter -
Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence.
-- Robert A. Heinlein -
Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.
-- Robert Genn -
Bullying consists of the least competent most aggressive employee projecting their incompetence on to the least aggressive most competent employee and winning.
-- Tim Field -
Adventure is a sign of incompetence.
-- Vilhjalmur Stefansson -
I don't know what I'm doing, but my incompetence has never stopped my enthusiasm.
-- Woody Allen -
Writing is the only trade I know of in which sniveling confessions of extreme incompetence are taken as credentials probative of powers to astound the multitude.
-- George V. Higgins -
Never underestimate the incompetence of government.
-- James Cook -
Honestly, the most uncomfortable thing for me is my level of incompetence is uncomfortable.
-- Timothy Miller
