True competence is based on one’s own ability to observe.
Being competent means the ability to control and operate the things in the environment and the environment itself.
The handling of a problem seems to be simply the increase of ability to confront the problem and when the problem can be totally confronted it no longer exists.
Self-confidenc e alone is security. Your ability is your security. There is no security but you.
No man is happy without a goal, and no man can be happy without faith in his own ability to reach that goal.
The most valuable asset we have, actually, is our ability to understand, to do the right thing, to be kind, to be decent.