Robert Gant: You were supposed to protect my son. Agent Curtis: [stammering] Uh... she took us by surpise. Robert Gant: How do I explain that to my wife? Agent Curtis: I... uh... I... Robert Gant: Back in the Middle Ages, in more noble times, when a knight failed his king, that knight would throw himself onto his sword to avoid the humiliation of being ostracized by his peers for his incompetence and cowardice. Agent Curtis: Sir? Robert Gant: [holds out a large .45 pistol] Do the honorable thing, Agent Curtis. Take the gun. [Curtis takes the pistol from Gant] Robert Gant: Put it against your head. [Curtis puts the gun to his head] Robert Gant: Pull the trigger. [Curtis hesitates] Robert Gant: Now!
Lord Rathbone: Perhaps you could explain to me how Looney Lin managed to escape from the confines of Scotland Yard under the watch of the most respected police force in the world. Doyle: Yes, of course, it's absolutely fascinating. She picked the lock using a deck of rather risqué playing cards. Then scaled the walls with a mop, a fork, and various pilfered undergarments. I've got to hand it to the Chinese, they're awfully ingenious, Lord, aren't they? Lord Rathbone: Does your incompetence know no bounds?
Miranda Priestly: Details of your incompetence do not interest me.
Wake up America! The insurance companies took over health care! Wake up America! The pharmaceutical companies took over drug pricing! Wake up America! The speculators took over Wall Street! Wake up America! They want your Social Security! Wake up America! Multinational corporations took over our trade policies! Wake up America! We went into Iraq for oil! WAKE UP AMERICA!
My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.
I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an audience. You can't fake it in your own eyes. Your ego is your strictest judge. They run from it. They spend their lives running. It's easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement. It's simple to seek substitutes for competence--such easy substitutes: love, charm, kindness, charity. But there is no substitute for competence.
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