Famous quotes containing the words competency and/or convention:
“Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)