Best 73 quotes in «incompetence quotes» category

A bad workman quarrels with the man who calls him that.

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence.

A person who is careless about money is careless about everything, and untrustworthy in everything.

...because knowledge rapidly deteriorates unless it is used constantly, maintaining within an organization an activity that is used only intermittently guarantees incompetence.

I believe email-based status reports are the clearest and best signs of managerial incompetence and laziness.

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.

I know the well of my maternal incompetence is deep but I am determined to siphon up a calm and breathing hope for him.

Inconsistency, incompetence, and lies are all cut short by the ground. It will stop you if you can't stop yourself.

Incompetence annoys me. Overconfidence terrifies me.

Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.

Incompetent government embraces hiring quotas, thus furthering their incompetence.

Never underestimate the incompetence of government.

Honestly, the most uncomfortable thing for me is my level of incompetence is uncomfortable.

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.

Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.

Secrecy breeds incompetence because where there is failure, failure is kept secret.

Seeming failure is not of the law of satyagrahabut of incompetence of the satyagrahi by whatever cause induced.

The price of loyalty is incompetence.

I don't know what I'm doing, but my incompetence has never stopped my enthusiasm.

Oligopoly is an imperfect monopoly. Like the despotism of the Dual Monarchy, it is saved only by its incompetence.

Our government has become incompetent, unresponsive, corrupt. And that incompetence, ineptitude, lack of accountability is now dangerous.

You should know how many incompetent men I had to compete with-in vain.

After many years of using the medical profession, I concluded that it is infested with blatant incompetence.

An incompetent person in a responsible position may cause huge damage. Such a person should act less and think more.

According to Mark 11:12-13, God's messengers were not the only ones who were incompetent: 'He [Jesus] was hungry. And on seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see if he could find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.' Imagine Jesus, the divine, holy, wisest of the wise not knowing that figs were out of season. Now allegedly Jesus could have performed a miracle and made figs magically appear, but he preferred sour grapes instead: Then he said to the tree, 'May no one ever eat fruit from you again.' (Mark 11:14)

And here it becomes evident that the bourgeoisie is unfit any longer to be the ruling class in society and to impose its conditions of existence upon society as an over-riding law. It is unfit to rule because it is incompetent to assure an existence to its slave within his slavery, because it cannot help letting him sink into such a state that it has to feed him instead of being fed by him. Society can no longer live under this bourgeoisie; in other words, its existence is no longer compatible with society. The essential condition for the existence, and for the sway of the bourgeois class, is the formation and augmentation of capital; the condition for capital is wage-labor. Wage-labor rests exclusively on competition between the laborers. The advance of industry, whose involuntary promoter is the bourgeoisie, replaces the isolation of the laborers, due to competition, by their revolutionary combination, due to association. The development of modern industry, therefore, cuts from under its feet the very foundation on which the bourgeoisie produces and appropriates products. What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.

Dartmouth College has an established history of blatant incompetence with handling mercury.

Any work is always improvable, you cannot really finish the work, you can only abandon it out of tiredness or incompetence.

Dartmouth College demonstrated gross incompetence with mercury systems when I worked for them.

Blatant harassment by the attending law enforcement officer has been the outcome of calling 911 for protection in the past.

During the course of a decade I became fearful of the USA medical profession, as everything they did made me sicker.

I arrived in the USA in 2001 and by 2015 I knew through experience that I was living in a country of corporate incompetence and blatant frauds.

Corrupt and incompetent cops are making the world a dangerous place for good and honest police officers.

I am not fit for this office and never should have been here.

[H]e was one of those people who got to the top of an organisation through luck, connections, the indulgence of superiors and that sort of carelessness towards others that the easily impressed termed ruthlessness and those of a less gullible nature called sociopathy. But sometimes, just through his sheer unthinking brusqueness and inability to think through the consequences of a remark, he said what everybody else was only thinking. A comic poet working in obscene doggerel.

Is ours a government of the people, by the people, for the people, or a kakistocracy rather, for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools?

I didn’t answer her. All I could have said was I don’t know, a sentence that was becoming a kind of witness to our own ignorance or incompetence. Or both.

Ignorance is the worst liberation. To know even a few is better than knowing nothing at all.

I hate incompetence. I think it’s probably the only thing I do hate. But it didn’t make me want to rule people. Nor to teach them anything. It made me want to do my own work in my own way and let myself be torn to pieces if necessary.

One moment of incompetence can be fatal.

Naturopathic medicine is the biggest threat to modern corporate healthcare.

I view doctors as the vampires of the medical insurance industry.

My dislike of the W. M. Keck Observatory, Columbia University and Dartmouth College is based on unpleasant experiences in their employment.

Never give a clown too many balls to juggle

One of my astronomy managers used to tell me that liquid nitrogen was harmless and was just liquid air. He would pour it onto his bare hands to demonstrate how safe he thought it was. I was later to realize that incompetence was a feature of high altitude astronomy.

Putting the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea is merely a demonstration of willful biological incompetence by high altitude astronomy.

Since most parents are reluctant to talk about sex, schools have tried to fill the gap. In America, when we decide to ignore a subject, our favorite form of denial is to teach it incompetently. Familiarity without true understanding is not only the basis of our families but of our educational system as well.

Six-Pack didn't despise George W. Bush to the degree that Ketchum did, but she thought the president was a smirking twerp and a dumbed-down daddy's boy, and she agreed with Ketchum's assessment that Bush would be as worthless as wet crap in even the smallest crisis. If a fight broke out between two small dogs, for example, Ketchum claimed that Bush would call the fire department and ask them to bring a hose; then the president would position himself at a safe distance from the dogfight, and wait for the firemen to show up. The part Pam liked best about this assessment was that Ketchum said the president would instantly look self-important, and would appear to be actively involved--that is, once the firefighters and their hose arrived, and provided there was anything remaining of the mess the two dogs might have made of each other in the interim.

-the men were found to have left behind their guns but to have lugged such essentials as monogrammed silver cutlery, a backgammon board, a cigar case, a clothes brush, a tin of buttons polish, and a copy of 'The Vicar of Wakefield.' These men may have been incompetent bunglers, but, by God, they were gentlemen.