Competen Quotes

#1. Which are you? ... competen t, inspiring, passionate, obsessed, provocative, impatient, hungry, driven, adoring, inspired, an artist, a genius, someone who cares ... ?
With all these remarkable, powerful, important options available to each of us, why do so many of us default to competent?

Seth Godin

#2. To see something as either black or white is easy. To see the entirety in something that has blending colors takes time. To see something that's not there, takes one who is a visionary.

Wes Adamson

#3. The game has changed. What's going on now is nonsense. You have guys complaining about not being paid.

David Wells

#4. I usually tell people that everything I learned about being an entrepreneur I learned by f'ing up at my first company.

Mark Suster

#5. Alone in my room, wrapped in a blanket, I whimpered and talked aloud to myself, recalling the lost glory of my youth when I considered myself, and was considered by others, a bright and capable person. It seemed that was all gone now.

Nicole Krauss

#6. My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.

Dolly Parton

#7. But her brain was not interested in the future. Loaded with the past and hungry for more, it left her no room to imagine, let alone plan for, the next day.

Toni Morrison

#8. We cannot organize revival, but we can set our sails to catch the wind from Heaven when God chooses to blow upon His people once again

G. Campbell Morgan

#9. Marx called Darwin a plagiarist and Malthus a fraud. Now all Marxists are Malthusian Darwinists.

A.E. Samaan

#10. Anthony Patch had ceased to be an individual of mental adventure, of curiosity, and had become an individual of bias and prejudice, with a longing to be emotionally undisturbed.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#11. I believe in treating other people with respect. My style is to speak to people, be available to them and willing to answer their questions. This also means being straightforward and honest with them.

Sanford I. Weill

#12. I took notes on the people around me, in my town, in my family, in my memory. I took notes on my own state of mind, my grandiosity, the low self-esteem. I wrote down the funny stuff I overheard. I learned to be like a ship's rat, veined ears trembling, and I learned to scribble it all down.

Anne Lamott

#13. Most of us would never consider getting our car repaired without first receiving an estimate of the charges, but this is exactly what we do when we need to go to a hospital for treatment.

Dan Lipinski

#14. Seriously, just find yourself a rebound." Dean whips up his arm. "I volunteer as tribute.

Elle Kennedy