Linguistic competence is inborn, not acquired.

How would you describe your competence yourself?

Develop your linguistic competence as much as possible.

Ted doesn't have the competence to teach English.

I do have a certain technical competence, yes.

We're looking for competence, discipline, endurance, and strength.

We also need much more competence of civil society leaders.

So we need to understand where our competence is and isn't.

A professional is someone who has a combination of competence, confidence and belief.

As one moves up the ladder, values other than technical competence are viewed with increasing suspicion.

This is a world in which there's no electricity, there's no money, there's no medical competence.

They are drive by technical competence customer needs, and the ability to let her final finished quality product.

Because we rate them on all these variables related to competence, like, how well structured is the speech?

It allows you to create the illusion of competence, the illusion of simplicity, and most destructively, the illusion of understanding.

So when individuals come together and find something that unites them that's greater than their individual competence, then something very important happens.

And we as citizens, as we go through this experience of the kind of, the crisis of confidence, crisis of competence, crisis of legitimacy,

I mean, go see a doctor or come back after six months, and then this happens as a way of bridging the technology competence.

It is important in choosing the direction to take in science to find the subject at your level of competence that interests you deeply, and focus on that.

For every scientist, whether researcher, technician, teacher, manager or businessman, working at any level of mathematical competence, there exists a discipline in science or medicine for which that level is enough to achieve excellence.

So there's a long history of extraordinary state infrastructural projects in China, which I suppose helps us to explain what we see today, which is something like the Three Gorges Dam and many other expressions of state competence within China.

I'm going to talk about using these strategies to actually design brain plasticity based approach to drive corrections in the machinery of a child that increases the competence of the child as a language receiver and user and, thereafter, as a reader.