Competency Framework Quotes & Sayings

Begging your pardon, sir, but you're crazy enough to be a Wraith."
"Until you've crewed with me for a few years, kid, you have no idea what 'crazy' means. — Aaron Allston

When you lose a friend or a lover, those who remain in your life gain (more of your attention). — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

What's in your other hand?" "A message I need to have sent," he lied blithely. "I'll leave you to your work." "Without a kiss?" He definitely felt his mouth twitch that time. "You're baiting me." "And enjoying it very much, thank you." "I haven't the time for it now," he said. "I've a very important matter to attend to. Perhaps later. — Lynn Kurland

The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background. — Edith Wharton

Never was there any one so beautiful as [he]... The wolves did not ravage, the frost winds did not bite... — Ella Young

There is no ideal in observation. When you have an ideal, you cease to observe, you are then merely approximating the present to the idea, and therefore there is duality, conflict, and all the rest of it. The mind has to be in the state when it can see, observe. The experience of the observation is really an astonishing state. In that there is no duality. The mind is simply - aware. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

People give the worst advice about lost things. Retrace your steps. Pray to Saint Anthony. Think about where you last saw it. But that doesn't apply to the things that matter. Those are right in front of you, except they can't be found by looking for them. Only by looking at everything else. — Kristen Lepionka

Fine things in wood are important, not only aesthetically, as oddities or rarities, but because we are becoming aware of the fact that much of our life is spent buying and discarding, and buying again, things that are not good. Some of us long to have at least something, somewhere, which will give us harmony and a sense of durability - I won't say permanence, but durability - things that, through the years, become more and more beautiful, things we can leave to our children. — James Krenov

I feel relief about the Oscars. You know, you're not in this business for prizes but, okay, I missed one. — Philippe Falardeau

The longer a thing is to take doing, the more reason to begin at once — Ethel Lilian Voynich

I try to explain the difference to a client between cleaning and restoration.Cleaning is simply removing some light to moderate soils. Restoration is removing those hardened deposits and stains that require heavier cleaners and much more time. Or on a building that has just been built or renovated it's removing all the construction debris. Setting expectations can go a long way to having and keeping satisfied customers. — Tony Evans

All invitations must proceed from heaven perhaps; perhaps it is futile for men to initiate their own unity, they do but widen the gulfs between them by the attempt. — E. M. Forster

The woman's face was like a stone tablet, as if the president of the chess club had wandered over to the Goth corner of the schoolyard and asked to touch a tongue piercing. — Elizabeth Bard