Best 73 quotes in «incompetence quotes» category

[...] the vast mass of mankind are incapable of doing anything reasonably well, art among the rest. The worthless artist would not improbably have been a quite incompetent baker.

Wake up America! The insurance companies took over health care! Wake up America! The pharmaceutical companies took over drug pricing! Wake up America! The speculators took over Wall Street! Wake up America! They want your Social Security! Wake up America! Multinational corporations took over our trade policies! Wake up America! We went into Iraq for oil! WAKE UP AMERICA!

Those who wish to deal with me, must do so on my terms or not at all. I do not make terms with incompetence.

When men and women produce a baby together for the first time, it's an absolute festival of mutual incompetence. From The Wife Drought

When I see the promotion of nighttime street lighting to the masses, I realize the great level of incompetence that is present in governments, human health and the biological effects of light.

When I worked at Columbia University and Dartmouth College we would handle the rubber filled mercury mirror support system with bare hands and no respiratory protection. What was ironic was that we were visually inspecting it for leaks and that microscopic leaks could be entering our bodies through our bare skin and respiratory tracts. I had no industry recognized training in correctly handling mercury systems, dealing with unexpected spills, the health hazards and the correct storage protocols. When I reflect on the mercury filled rubber mirror support band, it was just one of the many incompetence's that astronomers were subjecting their unsuspecting staff to.

When men and women produce a baby together for the first time, it's an absolute festival of mutual incompetence.

Where would I be had I not believed I was incompetent?

Yet, after all, they were not bad souls; and though he failed so grotesquely, he did his incompetent best.

Witnessing the incompetence that was in the utility solar industry and is still present within the industry led me to the belief that the astronomy community must turn its views toward the environment that we are living in.

Worse than a corrupt government is an incompetent one, not least because having the second characteristic does not exclude the first one.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Never underestimate the incompetence of government.

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

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

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.

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

The price of loyalty is incompetence.

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)

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

[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.

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

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

Naturopathic medicine is the biggest threat to modern corporate healthcare.

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.

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.