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The children of less effective, less competent parents will be more likely to adopt the customs and values of the peer group.

~Caterina Fake

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The students I have come in contact with at Harvard are highly competent individuals who prefer to be challenged and respond well to encouragement.

~Catherine Asaro

Topics: Challenged Come Competent Contact Encouragement Harvard Highly Individuals Prefer Respond Students Well Who

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Photography is the easiest medium with which to be merely competent. Almost anybody can be competent. It's the hardest medium in which to have some sort of personal vision and to have a signature style.

~Chuck Close

Topics: Almost Anybody Competent Easiest Hardest Medium Merely Personal Photography Signature Some Sort Style Vision Which

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You come across words all the time that are everyday sexism. I was described as 'competently bossy' and 'bossily competent' by a male journalist, and I thought, 'Gosh, 'bossy' is never used of a man.'

~Clare Balding

Topics: Across Bossy Come Competent Everyday Gosh Journalist Male Man Never Sexism Thought Time Used Words You

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Christine and I haven't raised our children. A whole community of selfless Christians has contributed to helping them become faithful, competent adults.

~Clayton Christensen

Topics: Adult Become Children Christians Community Competent Faithful Helping Our Raised Selfless Them Whole

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If people are failing, they look inept. If people are succeeding, they look strong and good and competent. That's the 'halo effect.' Your first impression of a thing sets up your subsequent beliefs. If the company looks inept to you, you may assume everything else they do is inept.

~Daniel Kahneman

Topics: Assume Beliefs Company Competent Effect Else Everything Everything Else Failing First First Impression Good Halo Impression Inept Look Looks May People Sets Strong Subsequent Succeeding Thing Up You Your

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As parents, we teach our kids about things we feel competent in. That's why so many parents don't teach their kids about money.

~Dave Ramsey

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Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow.

~David Attenborough

Topics: Able Among Competent Creature Extraordinarily Follow Gives Going History Insight Know Most Natural Natural History People Ready Sense Sixth Sixth Sense Them

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Experts say that Britain and France have strong spy agencies; Germany's is competent but afraid to level with its public; the rest are relatively weak, and there is no Europe-wide spy agency.

~David Ignatius

Topics: Afraid Agencies Agency Britain Competent Experts France Germany Level Public Relatively Rest Say Spy Strong Weak

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Everything about it worked, and I don't mean just the movie, but in our experience, we realized there's also a component of luck involved in this business. We had absolutely the most competent people in the studio working on the release and ad campaign.

~David Zucker

Topics: About Absolutely Ad Also Business Campaign Competent Component Everything Experience Had Involved Just Luck Mean Most Movie Our People Realized Release Studio Worked Working

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