Incompetence Quotes

Behold the crucifix; what does it symbolize? Pallid incompetence hanging on a tree.

When Heaven is about to confer a great office on a man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with toil ; it exposes his body to hunger, and subjects him to extreme poverty ; it confounds his undertakings. By all these methods it stimulates his mind, hardens his nature, and supplies his incompetencies.

Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.

Always assume incompetence before looking for conspiracy.

The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage.

Useful men, who do useful things, don't mind being treated as useless.

But the useless always judge themselves as being important and hide all their incompetence behind authority.

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

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

There are few things more dangerous than a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence.

The more incompetent one feels, the more eager he is to fight.

But the technology was accessible, which suggests incompetence on the part of our counterintelligence community and the Clinton Administration, and may in fact rise to the level of treason.

But the technology was accessible, which suggests incompetence on the part of our counterintelligence community and the Clinton Administration, and may in fact rise to the level of treason.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Our country is being run by incompetent people.

Incompetence is often highly regarded in governmental circles.

Incompetence is the true crisis.

It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization.

It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.

Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent.

On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency.

It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization.

It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.

When success and incompetence meet, disaster is not far away.

I have little tolerance for incompetence, sloppy thinking, and laziness.

Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of city planning. But the destructive effect of automobiles are much less a cause than a symptom of our incompetence at city building.

The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly

I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword - two jackets, one that's driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.

We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent, dysfunctional government that pays no attention to the desires of the people. We are angry about the cesspool of corruption and conflicts of interests and self-dealing that is Albany.

The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself.

The supreme crime of the church to-day is that everywhere and in all its operations and influences it is on the side of sloth of mind; that it banishes brains, it sanctifies stupidity, it canonizes incompetence.

The working classes may be injuriously degraded and oppressed in three ways: 1st - When they are neglected in infancy 2nd - When they are overworked by their employer, and are thus rendered incompetent from ignorance to make a good use of high wages when they can procure them. 3rd - When they are paid low wages for their labour.

Government failure is always used as an excuse for government expansion.

Government thrives on crisis and incompetence.

Someone who says "I am busy" is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you.

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

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

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

Every clique is a refuge for incompetence.

It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.