Brian Tracy
Author, Speaker
"The future belongs to the competent"
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Competent
23 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Jerry West
Basketball Player
"I was not a great ballhandler. I just worked very hard at it, and I got to be a good ballhandler-a competent ballhandler-but never a great ballhandler."
Vikram Seth
Poet, Novelist
"I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent."
Seth Godin
Author, Entrepreneur
"Competent people are the most resistant to change"
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
"Properly speaking, we learn from those books only that we cannot judge. The author of a book that I am competent to criticise would have to learn from me."
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