Competing Quotes - Page 17

• Conflicts often stem from a couple of leaders on both sides that are badly brought up. They'd rather go to war than compromise. And in business, you're competing with other companies all the time, but you don't end up going to war with each other.

  Richard Branson

  Couple, War, Leader

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2013.

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• Ellen [Page] and I had only met a couple of times, but had mutual admiration for each other's work. When I first heard about the film [Into the Forest], I was excited to get a chance to work with one of my peers because it's usually one or the other. You don't get to work with all of the other actors that you're usually competing with.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Couple, Peers, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• You as the press secretary have to protect the president's interests and the White House's interests more broadly. And a lot of people inside the White House, as you learned, sometimes with painful experience, have competing agendas, have differing points of view, have priorities they're trying to protect.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Views, Painful Experiences, White

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Every press secretary faces an enormous amount of information. Events move really fast. You're responsible for a tremendous amount of information, and again, a tremendous amount on competing agendas. Not everybody grease in the White House.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Moving, White, House

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I think here is the irony of American history. We don't have an established church. When you have an established church nobody takes religion as seriously as we do here. We have a free market in religion. The religious groups are competing with each other.

  Eric Foner

  Religious, Thinking, Church

  "Life Is Getting More Difficult for Americans". Interview with Karen Andresen and Cordula Meyer, www.spiegel.de. October 30, 2008.

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• Ultimately when you have the perspective of why you're competing and what you're trying to pursue, the rest just falls into place.

  David Boudia

  Fall, Perspective, Trying

  "A conversation with U.S. Olympic gold medalist diver David Boudia". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. 2012.

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• The challenge when you think about product distribution is: how are you competing for potential customers or potential members time?

  Reid Hoffman

  Thinking, Challenges, Members

  "Lecture 13: How To Be A Great Founder". genius.com.

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• Determination is number one! You have to be trained physically. You have to have a good mental attitude - wanting it and enjoying the thrill of going fast. There is a certain level of aggression with competing at professional racing level but you have to control it as it is a high reaction, fast sport.

  Liz Halliday

  Sports, Determination, Attitude

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I have no social life. There is no time for one. Once in a while I may go to dinner with a friend but that is it. However I am much happier travelling and being busy competing in both my sports than having time off.

  Liz Halliday

  Sports, May, Dinner

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I think it is just the way he has changed the game overall and his own game because there are so many situations he has faced. He is now competing mostly against himself, like most great cricketers do. I think he has mastered all of them. The only challenge he has is to beat himself every time he walks out there because he has done almost everything.

  Kumar Sangakkara

  Thinking, Games, Challenges

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• When you play competitive tennis you are competing against someone else and you have to win. Playing music I didn't have to win I had to become better within myself.

  Aaron Zigman

  Winning, Play, Tennis

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• There is competition. It's almost like I'm back in tennis competing in a way. There are usually about twenty composers vying for the number one spot for a big or medium film.

  Aaron Zigman

  Numbers, Tennis, Competition

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• We are going to sign a treaty with Mexico. We are competing internationally. We need another international airport for international cargo, international travel, international businesses.

  Richard M. Daley

  Travel, Airports, Needs

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• When I was much younger and still competing in gymnastics, I could rarely find inspiration outside of the sport.

  Nastia Liukin

  Sports, Inspiration, Gymnastics

  Interview With Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• At the 2012 Olympic Trials, I wanted to make a second Olympic team. I fell face first, and in a blink of an eye, my dreams of competing in a second Olympics were over. Even so, I got up, finished my routine, and saw twenty thousand people cheering. It was my first standing ovation.

  Nastia Liukin

  Dream, Cheer, Team

  Interview With Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I'm pro-life. The law protects women's right to chose, and I think there's a competing right, which is the rights of the unborn. And as you get closer to term, I think the rights of the unborn become more and more prevalent.

  Jeb Bush

  Thinking, Rights, Law

  "SKIMM YOUR CANDIDATE: Fmr. Gov. Jeb Bush (FL), Republican". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2015.

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• I kissed my first girl when I was 15, and then I lost my virginity when I was 17. So that's pretty good. It was just that when you're in high school, you're sort of forced into the normal world, where you're competing with the football players, just kind of in that world where somebody like me didn't quite fit in.

  James Mercer

  Girl, Football, School

  "James Mercer of The Shins". Interview with Marc Hawthorne, music.avclub.com. February 9, 2007.

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• If I didn't even stand a chance of winning races and competing for the title, I don't think I would be that interested in continuing my career.

  Michael Schumacher

  Winning, Thinking, Race

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Once open source gets good enough, competing with it would be insane.

  Larry Ellison

  Insane, Would Be, Good Enough

  Transcript: FT interview with Larry Ellison, www.ft.com. April 18, 2006.

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• Science is a process for learning about nature in which competing ideas about how the world works are measured against observations.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Ideas, World, Process

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• The word religion literally means, in Latin, to link or bind together; and despite the vast variation in the world's religions, Wilson shows that religions always serve to coordinate and orient people's behavior toward each other and toward the group as a whole, sometimes for the purpose of competing with other groups.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Latin, Mean, People

  Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.233, Basic Books

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• I was competing for attention in a four-piece band that was phenomenal, and I was trying to attack the blues from a kind of white English viewpoint as a singer.

  Robert Plant

  White, Trying, Attention

  "Robert Plant, Blues Out of Africa". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel and Melissa Block, www.npr.org. May 9, 2005.

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• Philanthropic leaders genially speak of complementing government, not competing with it as if monopoly were good and competition destructive-thus unwittingly conspiring against the public interest.

  Richard Cornuelle

  Government, Leader, Competition

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• The other girls [in team] have experience. They've been competing on a lot of international world-class stages. They knew what to expect and what to do and what not to do. Me and Aly [Raisman] just gave them advice on the media side. We said, it's gonna be crazy. It's the Olympics. But it's gonna be fun!

  Gabby Douglas

  Girl, Fun, Team

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Competing loves are detected in the gap between saying and doing.

  James MacDonald

  Gaps, Saying And Doing

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