Quotes contributed by members of Famous Quotes and Famous Sayings at The Famous Quotes List.

Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not 
change their minds are incompetents in asylums, and those in cemeteries. 
--Everett McKinley Dirksen 

[W]e must believe in ourselves or no one else will believe in us; 
we must match our aspirations with the competence, courage and determination to succeed. 
--Rosalyn Sussman Yalow US medical physicist 

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

A King, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or 
abdicate his duties. A Father can do neither. 
--Marlene Dietrich 

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

If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, 
if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately 
finds ridiculous, if he unhesitatingly gives answers to 
questionnaires which are contrary to his real opinions and is 
prepared to deny his own self in public, if he sees no difficulty 
in feigning sympathy or even affection where, in fact, he feels 
only indifference or aversion, it still does not mean that he 
has entirely lost the use of one of the basic human senses, namely, 
the sense of humiliation. 
--Vaclav Havel