Truly competent Literary Detectives are as rare as…

“The Special Operations Network was instigated to handle policing duties considered either too unusual or too specialized to be tackled by the regular force.…

— Jasper Fforde

How infinitely happier and more grateful is the whole personality or spirit when it finds something nourishing in art or writing or thinking, than…

— Kenny Smith

Not everyone in an organization is in a position to accumulate power through competent performance because most people are just carrying out the ordinary…

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

But medicine has long had all its means to hand, and has discovered both a principle and a method, through which the discoveries made…

— Hippocrates

As for mathematicians themselves: don't expect too much help. Most of them are too far removed in their ivory towers to take up such…

— Apostolos Doxiadis

As part of our ongoing series of reports on the environment, 'America Goes Green,' we take on the question that can make otherwise competent…

— Brian Williams

We could encourage the best qualities of youthfulness - curiosity, adventure, resilience, the capacity for surprising insight simply by being more flexible about time,…

— John Taylor Gatto

I have so many positive points. I am not corrupt, I am competent.

— Tamilisai Soundararajan

I remember when President Bush, George W. Bush, came into office, he focused on No Child Left Behind, and with - and before very…

— Lamar Alexander

If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these…

— Bill Wyman

There's always, I guess, a philosophy that if you come in, you want to change all the parts, you want to change everything over.…

— Pat Gillick

While photography is the easiest medium in which to be competent, it is the hardest in which to develop an idiosyncratic personal vision.

— Chuck Close

You basically have a group of four spies who are chosen for a mission they feel for the fact of how competent they are…

— Matt LeBlanc

“In your goals to go the extra mile, prepare to pay an extra cost. Excellence is to be exceptional, surpassing, more competent and a…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Almost everywhere we find . . . the use of various coercive measures, to rid ourselves as quickly as possible of the child withinus--i.e.,…

— Alice Miller