Competing Quotes - Page 11

• I look forward to competing.

  Li Na

  Looks

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• I am also hugely excited to then be competing to defend my three Paralympic titles at the Paralympic Games. I believe we will see some amazing times posted and I am very much looking forward to what will be an incredible Olympics and Paralympics in London.

  Oscar Pistorius

  Believe, Games, Titles

  "London 2012 Olympics: Amputee Oscar Pistorius picked for men's 400m" by Owen Gibson, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2012.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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'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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• 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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• 1 of the hardest parts about being a founder, is that there are a 100 important things competing for your attention each day.

  Sam Altman

  Important, Attention, Each Day

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• This is true for most new products. The majority of people you're competing with are non-users. They are people who have never used your service before. And what they say is actually the most important. What they say is the thing that blocks you from expanding the size of your market with your features.

  Emmett Shear

  Block, People, Important

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• Being champion is just priceless. I'm not trying to sound arrogant or anything but being Olympic champ, you have every country coming together and competing. Doing what they do best, getting awards, money. Coming together and competing in the most competitive way possible with the best from all these different countries on Earth and winning. To me that's priceless.

  Henry Cejudo

  Country, Winning, Awards

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• There are sharply different, competing models of what trans advocacy looks like - those that seek to follow the path laid out by the most visible and well-funded lesbian and gay rights organizations in the US and those that seek to use grassroots strategies, center issues of race and poverty, and aim to dismantle harmful institutions and conditions to redistribute life chances.

  Dean Spade

  Gay, Organization, Issues

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• If you fight for a living you can't give a damn about the opponent because they're trying to take food out of your mouth and your kids' mouths. You're in competition with everybody. The trick is, just don't let them know you're competing against them.

  Gene LeBell

  Kids, Fighting, Giving

  Source: writingfighting.wordpress.com

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• Competing for Wales in the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne 2006 at the age of 16 was daunting for me. It was my first major senior competition and to go out there in front of such a huge crowd was terrifying at the time, but I've had so many senior internationals since then, I feel that this experience has given me the confidence to give it the best shot that I can.

  Jazmin Carlin

  Senior, Commonwealth Games, Giving

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• You will be competing against athletes from many nations. But, most important, you are competing against yourself. All we expect is for you to do your very best, to push yourself just one second faster, one notch higher, one inch further.

  Ronald Reagan

  Athlete, Important, Olympics

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• I think for a film that has real theatrical potential a sales agent is key. For a film that may find it tougher in the American marketplace, such as many of the docs in the world competition that may not be competing for deals - any subtitled film has a harder time in this marketplace - for those films I don't know that a sales agent necessarily helps for the kinds of smaller deals that may or may not be offered.

  Thom Powers

  Real, Thinking, Keys

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Up here in Alaska we're sitting on billions of barrels of oil. We're sitting on hundreds of trillions of cubic feet of natural gas onshore and offshore. And it seems to be only the Republicans who understand that companies should be competing for the right to tap those resources, and get that energy source flowing into these hungry markets so that we will be less reliant on foreign sources of energy. In a volatile world, relying on foreign regimes that are not friendly to Americans, asking them to ramp up resource production for our benefit, that's nonsensical.

  Sarah Palin

  Oil, Feet, Alaska

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• One friend dies and we remain indifferent; another dies, perhaps less intimate, and we see ourselves as dead, and weep, mourn, tear our hair or find ourselves caught up in the madness of the wake, competing with others as to who was closest, now suffers most.

  Fay Weldon

  Hair, Mourning, Suffering

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• Well, what there ought to be is an international labor organization, a confederation of the trade unions of all the countries speaking for the workers who are competing with one another, and talking about the difference in wage levels between, say, Europe and Indonesia.

  Richard Rorty

  Country, Talking, Europe

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• What a racially segregated system once taught the young black about living with his inferiority is now taught by a benevolent social welfare system. The difference was that in an earlier age a black parent could fight the competing influences.

  Charles A. Murray

  Fighting, Differences, Parent

  Charles A. Murray (1984). “Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980”, p.188, Basic Books

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• If right and left are competing to be the biggest victim, who is competing to be the government?

  David Frum

  Government, Victim, Left

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• I don't see myself as competing with other actresses. I mean, I went through a time when I was in New York, and I was going to lots of auditions and trying to get parts, but even then, you're not really competing with the other actresses. There is a competition going on, but it's not like something you can win in that way.

  Annette Bening

  New York, Mean, Winning

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Too many multi-vitamins are packaged as one size fits all, but you should be more specific about what you need. When I was competing as a dancer, I took zinc for healthy skin and immune system.

  Anton du Beke

  Zinc, Dancer, Healthy

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• I think every album you have, especially if it's done well, you feel like you're competing with yourself.

  Alan Jackson

  Thinking, Albums, Done

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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