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• We can't worry about competition. Besides, you aren't competing with anyone but yourself. They have nothing to do with whether you make a good movie or not.

  Chris Wedge

  Worry, Competition, Good Movie

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• Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.

  Ron Blomberg

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music.

  Henry Flynt

  New York, Artist, Indian Music

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• The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere.

  Jared Diamond

  Loss, Literature, Individual

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• What is the point of competing for a trophy if everyone gets a trophy?

  Glenn Beck

  Trophies, Ifs

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• You have to compete with others in the field. Sometimes the competition gets pretty fierce because you're competing for funds or grants to do your work, the financial work.

  Clyde Tombaugh

  Competition, Fields, Financial

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• I intend to fight to ensure that Connecticut workers have a level playing field when competing for jobs.

  Christopher Dodd

  Jobs, Fighting, Level Playing Field

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• Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it.

  Sarah Palin

  Party, Games, Challenges

  Republican Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.

  C. Wright Mills

  Government, Issues, Political

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Power Elite”, p.242, Oxford University Press

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• A competitive world offers two possibilities. You can lose. Or, if you want to win, you can change.

  Lester Thurow

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

  Ayn Rand

  Motivational, Dance, Teamwork

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.99, Penguin

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• You can't take up golf on a whim and find yourself competing against Tiger Woods in the Masters six months later.

  Richard Roeper

  Golf, Finding Yourself, Six Months

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• We're all Americans trying to compete. Magic was competing for his team and Larry for his team.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Team, Magic

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• NAFTA recognizes the reality of today's economy - globalization and technology. Our future is not in competing at the low-level wage job; it is in creating high-wage, new technology jobs based on our skills and our productivity.

  John F. Kerry

  Jobs, Technology, Reality

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• People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  People, Religion, Arguing

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• I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well

  Victoria Principal

  Found, Wells, Ideals

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• Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic consequences of slave labor.

  Norbert Wiener

  Technology, Slave Labor, Machines

  Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use Of Human Beings: Cybernetics And Society”, p.112, Hachette UK

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• You should know how many incompetent men I had to compete with-in vain.

  Inge Lehmann

  Men, Ignorant People, Incompetence

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• I'm a great believer in the character of the club. To me, character has a lot to do with how you compete. That creates urgency and toughness. That elevates the talent that you have.

  Tony La Russa

  Sports, Baseball, Character

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• Anytime a woman competes with another woman she demeans herself.

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  Sherry Argov

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Women

  Sherry Argov, “Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl - A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship”

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• When men lose against me, they always have a headache ... or things of that kind. I have never beaten a completely healthy man!

  Susan Polgar

  Funny, Women, Humorous

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• If you are unable to compete with the pious in their good
  deeds, compete with the sinful in their repentance.

  Ibn Rajab

  Religious, Islamic, Competition

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• The principle is competing against yourself.

  Steve Young

  Motivational, Sports, Football

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• If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard. The thrill of competing carries with it the thrill of a gold medal. One wants to win to prove himself the best.

  Jesse Owens

  Sports, Athlete, Winning

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• Stop competing on price; compete on value. Deliver total consumer solutions, rather than just your piece of the solution.

  Faith Popcorn

  Pieces, Consumers, Solutions

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