Competent Quotes

With this greenhouse opening, and the training of competent staff to manage it, Kenya and KARI have positioned themselves to be leaders in sub-Saharan Africa in the use of biotechnology to meet the rapidly growing need to increase food production. - Masa Iwanaga

With the Lucio Tan group gaining sole control of PNB, it is unlikely that there will be any change in the composition of the bank's highly professional and competent management team. - Lucio Tan

Willie's competent at all phases of the game, ... But he's also got instinct, which is something you can't teach. He has a way of doing the right thing, like stealing a key base at the needed time. - Mike Hargrove

William Wyler has always been famous for taking a lot of takes. There is this story that he did this scene with a bunch of very competent people, a very important scene in the movie, and he'd already done it thirty times. One of them came to Willie and said, 'I want to know what we're doing wrong. What do you want us to do?' And Willie said, 'No, you're doing it fine. I'm just waiting for something to happen'. - James Stewart

Why should I carry the costs? My contract was extended by a competent authority and then a subsequent authority questions that. I now have to carry the burden of challenging that. It does not make sense. I am caught in the crossfire. - Wallace Mgoqi

Why do otherwise sane, competent, strong men, men who can wrestle bears or raid corporations, shrink away in horror at the thought of washing a dish or changing a diaper? - Frank Pittman

Why do I have to be terminal in order to have my medical wishes respected if I'm 80 years old, have led a good life and recorded those decisions when I was still competent? - Bob Brooks

Who would have thought that the powerful members of the world's most exclusive club would be so threatened by a movement of competent, principle-driven egghead lawyers? - Karl Rove

While the President leads his potential adversaries in almost every state, his support is soft. He is seen as honest, sincere, just, and friendly but gets mediocre or relatively poor ratings being competent strong, intelligent, and a forceful leader. - Robert Teeter

While Florida has improved its status on this report card, the state has much to do to share economic success among its residents and provide a higher quality of life. Florida is allocating few resources to prepare its residents to be part of the future work force. Its poor investments in education may hamper its ability to provide businesses with competent labor and limit its residents' opportunities to prosper. - David Buchholz