Kurt Eichenwald

Too often, it seems, conservatives have scorned experts as incompetent, biased, or otherwise worth ignoring because they came up with answers that didn't fit their politically desired answer. Often, they proclaim experts have a liberal bias. Of course, plenty of Democrats have voted for conservative ideas, but that is beside the point.

American Editor

Nina Jacobson

As a studio executive, I took the approach that people are competent until proven otherwise. But when you make a movie, because there is so little time to fix things when they break, you have to almost come to it with the mindset that everyone is incompetent until proven otherwise.

American Businesswoman

Emile Durkheim

There is a collective as well as an individual humor inclining peoples to sadness or cheerfulness, making them see things in bright or somber lights. In fact, only society can pass a collective opinion on the value of human life; for this the individual is incompetent.

French Sociologist

Marie Osmond

You just need to be honest with how you're feeling. But, a lot of women are afraid of it because they think, 'Oh, they are going to take my baby away. They're gonna call me incompetent. I'm going to lose my job. I've got to be tough, it's a man's world.

American Musician

Vivek Agnihotri

Nobody has a problem if you promote your child, even they are incompetent or have no merit. It's fine, it's your child, your money. But the problem comes when you destroy my career to protect your child's or your friend's career.

Indian Director

Campbell Brown

Put together, what we want is a system that supports, protects, and properly pays good teachers and makes it possible in a responsible and fair way to remove teachers judged to be incompetent or abusive - that's it.

American Journalist

Vincent Bugliosi

I start out with the assumption that a lawyer in a criminal case is going to be incompetent - substantially so. I find my assumption to be rarely wrong. Yet society starts out with the very opposite assumption.

American Author

Jeremy Denk

It's long been my dream to have myself declared incompetent so I could just practice all day, and blog, and not have to take care of any normal life things.

Michael Palin

I'd got over playing a character. People accepted who I was, and if I was incompetent and useless, they felt quite endeared to me.

British Comedian

Dave Matthews

In so many areas of life, I'm a spaz and incompetent.

South African Musician

Using 'incompetent' can sound harsh; it's a strong criticism of someone's ability.

Negative Connotation

Often used to describe professional shortcomings, implying lack of required skills.

Workplace Context

Be mindful when calling someone 'incompetent', as it can be offensive and demoralizing.

Careful Usage

In law, 'incompetent' refers to lacking qualification or ability, often in a judicial context.

Legal Specificity

It relates to legal standing or capacity, not general skill or intelligence.

Understanding Legality

Describes someone's physical or mental limitations in medical contexts.

Medical Condition

It suggests that the incompetency is often due to uncontrollable factors, like health.

Conveys Limitation

 starts with a request. But a lot of people don't ask. They don't want to look incompetent, they don't know where to turn, they don't want to burden others. Yet if nobody ever asks for help, you have a lot of frustrated givers in your organization who would love to step up and contribute, if they only knew who could benefit and how.

Are you a giver or a...

 genuinely find useful that last part is really important because it speaks to a contradiction in impostor logic because when you think about it what we're really saying is other people are so stupid they don't realize we're incompetent to imagine if you'd come up to my friend and said that was great and

Thinking your way out of...

 an incompetent bourgeois failure. He even launched another failed offensive in the war, where Russia had already lost so much, instead of ending it like the people wanted." "It was a constitutional social democratic government, the most progressive of its time. And it could have succeeded eventually

History vs. Vladimir...

 you introduced the spoils system, replacing hundreds of perfectly good federal employees with incompetent party loyalists?" "Your Honor, the President did no such thing. He tried to institute rotation in office to avoid any profiteering or funny business. It was the rest of the party

History vs. Andrew...

 of real physician-patient interactions, their judgments of the physician's niceness predict whether or not that physician will be sued. So it doesn't have to do so much with whether or not that physician was incompetent, but do we like that person and how they interacted?

Your body language may...

 But this time, we also asked them what did they think about other participants who disagree with them on those issues. Are they smart or incompetent? Are they reasonable or are they biased? The better-than-average group said anybody who disagrees with them

The psychology of...

 with their anti-Catholic extremism and nonstop executions of everyone who disagreed with them. And The Directory that replaced them was an unstable and incompetent oligarchy. They needed a strong leader who could govern wisely and justly."

History vs. Napoleon...

 Rosen Franklin came up and sort of laughed at our model they said it was lousy and it was so we were told to build no more models we were incompetent and so we didn't build any models and

How I discovered DNA -...

 because any idiot can now multiply eight-digit numbers accurately and instantly with a pocket calculator. Conversely, I at age 75 am incompetent at skills essential for everyday life.

Jared Diamond: How...

 it's a catastrophe the one hour here support that I ordered got screwed up the two units didn't connect because a one hour time difference he's incompetent son of a they can't

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