Competing Quotes - Page 6

• The problem, of course, is that the vacuum left by Younis Tsouli is quickly being filled by a larger, anonymous group of new cyber terrorists who are competing to follow in his legacy. He has become the inspiration for a second generation of "cyber terrorists" who are studying and learning from his mistakes.

  Evan Kohlmann

  Mistake, Inspiration, Legacy

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• It makes you realize how basically everything we do comes down to a) mating or b) competing for resources. It’s just like Animal Planet, only we’ve got Cover Girl and Victoria’s Secret instead of colored feathers and fancy markings, and the violence occurs at the Nordstrom’s Half-Yearly Sale.

  Deb Caletti

  Girl, Animal, Secret

  Deb Caletti (2010). “Nature of Jade”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• The virtue of losing is we get used to the fact that competing and to lose doesn't kill you. It just makes you stronger. It just helps you get used to it.

  Po Bronson

  Stronger, Losing, Helping

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I enjoy the competition and the process of learning as we compete. The whole thing is just fascinating. I don't know what I'll do when I retire. When I go sailing, I look around ... anyone want to race? I just love competing as opposed to just going out and watching the sunset.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspiring, Sunset, Race

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• I got into boxing for two reasons. One was that my father was a boxer. Secondly when I was young, all healthy men in the UK had to do two years "National Service" in one of the armed forces. I chose the Royal Air Force over the Army and Navy. My father's reputation went before me and therefore the RAF encouraged me to box. There is much rivalry in sporting competitions between the Army, Navy and RAF. Competing has great privileges. I didn't need too much encouragement with all these perks being offered, so I started training with a vengeance.

  Brian London

  Encouragement, Father, Army

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation.

  Camille Paglia

  War, Fate, Different

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• Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces.

  Steven Spielberg

  Phones, Cells, Two

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• When you reach that competing point, when you reach that time when the gun is about to go off, everyone's level is pretty much the same. The one thing that's going to separate you from everybody else is how you deal with those pressures, how you stay relaxed.

  Apolo Ohno

  Gun, Levels, Pressure

  Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. November 18, 2010.

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• The more I have to do, the better off I am. I'm not really one to sit around and relax and take it easy. I always like having something to do. Even though I'm not competing, I'm going to be making a lot of appearances, doing guest posings and seminars.

  Ronnie Coleman

  Relax, Guests, Appearance

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• Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.

  A.C. Grayling

  Children, Abuse, Religion

  A.C. Grayling (2012). “Against All Gods: Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness”, p.12, Oberon Books

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• A piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love.

  A. O. Scott

  Loyalty, Honesty, Drama

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• When Im competing, I need to be strong.

  Ashley Wagner

  Strong, Needs

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• Competing, to me is just a mentality that says you never back down.

  Shannon Higgins-Cirovski

  Never Back Down, Mentality

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• When a democracy reaches a point where the politicians cannot say no to the people, and both parties are competing for votes by promising even more spending or even lower taxes, or both, the experiment is about over.

  Pat Buchanan

  Party, People, Democracy

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• If you want to minimize the possibility of unexpected breakthroughs, tell people they will receive no resources at all unless they spend the bulk of their time competing against each other to convince you they know in advance what they are going to discover.

  David Graeber

  People, Want, Unexpected

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• Olympic athletes have to find a job right after they're done competing.

  Apolo Ohno

  Jobs, Athlete, Done

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• Industrialism is the religion with 'the machine' as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects.

  Dora Russell

  Prayer, Machines, Answers

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• We're living in what I like to call the 'Thank You Economy,' because only the companies that can figure out how to mind their manners in a very old-fashioned way - and do it authentically - are going to have a prayer of competing.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Thank You, Prayer, Educational

  Gary Vaynerchuk (2011). “The Thank You Economy (Enhanced Edition)”, p.27, Harper Collins

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• Paradox is the sharpest scalpel in the satchel of science. Nothing concentrates the mind as effectively, regardless of whether it pits two competing theories against each other, or theory against observation, or a compelling mathematical deduction against ordinary common sense.

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Two, Common Sense, Mind

  Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.204, Harvard University Press

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• I've always worked closely with the designers and whoever's making the costumes. Comfort is the last thing you want on your mind when you're competing. In an ideal situation, you'll have something where you'll put it on and you're fine and you don't have to worry about it at all.

  Kristi Yamaguchi

  Worry, Mind, Comfort

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• Acting is not a profession of competing with other actors, but rather a vocation of sharing with fellow human beings.

  Marjo-Riikka Makela

  Acting, Actors, Vocation

  speech at the opening ceremony for Chekhov Studio International, Los Angeles, 2009.

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• I make no pretensions to 'objectivity,' a fraudulent concept in an era of industrialized and politicized science in which intellectual mercenaries too often serve power and greed, the ambitions of competing nation-states, or the requirements of commerce.

  Hazel Henderson

  Ambition, Objectivity, Greed

  Hazel Henderson (1981). “The politics of the solar age: alternatives to economics”, Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Press/Doubleday

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• I think actually the marketing community is approaching a crisis: There are just too many messages competing for too little attention. That is the fundamental problem.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Thinking, Community, Marketing

  "Online Extra: Q&A with Malcolm Gladwell". Interview with Gerry Khermouch, www.bloomberg.com. July 30, 2001.

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• It's frustrating in the sense that I still think I could be competing at some sport at a fairly high level, which nobody cares about. Nobody wants to hear me say that.

  Lance Armstrong

  Sports, Thinking, Care

  Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

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• Practically every profession has a really political environment. I think the world has become more competitive. There are so many people in every place competing for small slices of success and power. It's a heated atmosphere and whenever you have competition, you're going to have more politics and manipulation.

  Robert Greene

  Thinking, People, Political

  "Interviewing Robert Greene about Mastery, Hustle, Fear, Boxing and MMA". Interview with Ben Thapa, www.bloodyelbow.com. November 12, 2012.

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