Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

Quote by Dr Laurence J Peter

Topics: Competence Quotes

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

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

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.

Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how...

Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how...

Two things reduce prejudice: education and laughter.

Two things reduce prejudice: education and laughter.

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who...

Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who...

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of...

It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of...

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard...

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard...

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable

You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have...

You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have...

Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life.

Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life.

I don't trust books. They're all fact and no heart.

I don't trust books. They're all fact and no heart.