Competency Hearing

Famous quotes containing the words competency and/or hearing:

“Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“There is all the poetry in the world in a name. It is a poem which the mass of men hear and read. What is poetry in the common sense, but a hearing of such jingling names? I want nothing better than a good word. The name of a thing may easily be more than the thing itself to me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)