Linguistic competence is inborn, not acquired.

How would you describe your competence yourself?

Ted doesn't have the competence to teach English.

Develop your linguistic competence as much as possible.

I do have a certain technical competence, yes.

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

No, what I'm asking for is competence, okay?

Changing the system is difficult, not to mention the interpersonal relationships.

We also need much more competence of civil society leaders.

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

The key thing is that for it to work, there has to be interpersonal influence.

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

I'm not disputing Olivia's competence, we need people but she's also a political liability

like smoking, or vaccination, or product adoption, or other kinds of behaviors that relate to interpersonal influence.

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.

If I were you, I'd be doing everything in my power to demonstrate my competence right now.

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?

Japan's problem has been that she has continued to view international relations as an extension of her hierarchical interpersonal relations at home.

I've been continuing to explore this interpersonal dimension of robots, now at the media lab with my own team of incredibly talented students.

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.

like dieting behavior, or book purchasing, or drinking, or bicycle helmet other safety practices, or products that people might buy, purchases of electronic goods, anything in which there's kind of an interpersonal spread.

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.

Likewise, we use force to indicate not only physical force, as in, Rose forced the door to open, but also interpersonal force, as in, Rose forced Sadie to go, not necessarily by manhandling her, but by issuing a threat.

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.

In rural Uganda, Paul Bolton and his colleagues, using villagers, demonstrated that they could deliver interpersonal psychotherapy for depression and, using a randomized control design, showed that 90 percent of the people receiving this intervention recovered as compared to roughly 40 percent in the comparison villages.

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.