Competing Quotes - Page 5

• The belts to me, they don't really mean much to be honest. It's the people who I fought and me going out there competing and fighting.

  Bonnie Canino

  Mean, Fighting, People

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• Poor-country surf communities can be complex and, to some extent, leveling. The fisherman's kid is competing head to head with the plutocrat's gilded son. Your father can't buy you a good frontside hack.

  William Finnegan

  Country, Father, Kids

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• 'DWTS' came to America and I was ranked first in the U.S. When I got the call, I turned them down. That's why I missed the first season because I felt like I was still seriously competing and it would have been distracting. They called me again for the 2nd season and I said yes. I wanted to see what it was like to do something different and here we are.

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy

  America, Different, Firsts

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• I think most of us look at personal delights as somewhere between minimally important and borderline immoral. We like them, but we're not sure we ought to. We seldom give them a high priority when other demands are competing for our attention. Nevertheless, the soul feeds on simple joys and withers without them.

  Victoria Moran

  Simple, Thinking, Giving

  Victoria Moran (1997). “Shelter for the Spirit: How to Make Your Home a Haven in a Hectic World”, Harpercollins

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• Set aside the many competing explanations of the big bang; something made an entire cosmos out of nothing. It is this realization - that something transcendent started it all - which has hard-science types... using terms like "miracle."

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Miracle, Bangs, Cosmos

  "The New Convergence". www.wired.com. December 1, 2002.

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• I can't spend the rest of my life competing for your attention and coming in last.

  Barbara Delinsky

  Attention, Lasts, I Can

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• If Reince Priebus is, in fact, the chief of staff and operating as chief of staff, he is the most important staffer the president Donald Trump has. And it is not unusual for a president to set up some competing power centers, as Ronald Reagan did, but there`s nothing like being the chief of staff, which has so much say over what the president reads, who the president sees, who`s the last person the president talks to before he makes a decision.

  Susan Page

  Decision, Important, President

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• We're really friendly. The cool thing about skiing is you're competing against the clock. Even though you're competing against your teammates, it's not head-to-head. And we can all do better. You can always do better. You never really have a perfect run. And someone beats you. So you can't really blame anyone.

  Julia Mancuso

  Running, Perfect, Friendly

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• What sense would it make to classify a man as handicapped because he is in a wheelchair today, if he is expected to be walking again in a month, and competing in track meets before the year is out? Yet Americans are generally given 'class' labels on the basis of their transient location in the income stream. If most Americans do not stay in the same broad income bracket for even a decade, their repeatedly changing 'class' makes class itself a nebulous concept. Yet the intelligentsia are habituated, if not addicted, to seeing the world in class terms.

  Thomas Sowell

  Men, Years, Class

  Thomas Sowell (1995). “The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy”, Basic Books

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• Competing in gymnastics is the greatest reminder of being alive as a human being.

  Raj Bhavsar

  Motivational, Gymnastics, Alive

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• We have to remember that we're no longer competing for anything anymore. We're not competing for life and death. Now we need to go back to when we would raise our children together and be able to have that strong unit of community, which is our strength. So women together, as a tribe, to me, are the strongest force. But we were put in a position to have to compete with each other, and that's got to stop. We've got to know that whenever that creeps up in our head, that that's not our true nature. That was something that was embedded in us, and that needs to start to go away.

  Kate Hudson

  Strong, Children, Life And Death

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• This use of advertising - to add a subjective value to the product - becomes increasingly important as the trends in our technology lead to competing products becoming more and more the same.

  James Webb Young

  Business, Technology, Important

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• Last year I was the favorite going into the world champs in Beijing, but I felt like I had to do something phenomenal in order to win. Instead of just having fun and competing, it became "I want to win so bad." But the person who wants it the most doesn't win. It's the person who executes. I still look back on that 200-meter race and say what the hell happened? I wasn't hurt, I wasn't sick, the conditions were perfect, and I ran like total crap.

  Ashton Eaton

  Hurt, Fun, Winning

  Source: www.mensjournal.com

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• Trade has played a vital role in the social evolution of humankind. It allowed people to specialise, which raises both skill levels and efficiency. It brought people from different lands together, co-operating rather than competing over resources.

  Julian Baggini

  Land, Skills, People

  "Why business needs to concentrate on value - not just profit" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2013.

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• There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not forget this, Winston— always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever.

  George Orwell

  Forever, Enemy, Victory

  George Orwell, Michael Sherborne (2005). “Nineteen eighty-four, [by] George Orwell”

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• I love the sport. I love competing. I love battling. I love being out there and, you know, playing in front of crowds. This is what I have been doing since I was a child, so, you know, there's nothing else that I want to do at this point.

  Jelena Jankovic

  Sports, Children, Love Is

  Interview, 2014.usopen.org. August 29, 2014.

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• Ed Lawler and I document that the key to creating good, productive jobs in all industries is to organize work processes and systems in ways that allow employees to contribute significant amounts of "added value" to the products they make and services they provide. When mangers give employees the organizational structure, resources, and authority needed for them to contribute their ideas and efforts, American workers, like those at Harley-Davidson, almost always prove capable of effectively competing against their overseas counterparts.

  James O'Toole

  Giving, Effort, Authority

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I created my own concept art and went in and did a 90-minute presentation that cost me a lot of money.And, the great thing is though, when I got the job, they had to buy all of it from me, because one of the set pieces in the middle of the movie was the scene I wrote, and they needed to own everything because a lot of it ended up being the movie we made, so I got all my money back. I was committed. I was going to outspend every competing director.

  Scott Derrickson

  Art, Scene, Committed

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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• The reason why it is so difficult for existing firms to capitalize on disruptive innovations is that their processes and their business model that make them good at the existing business actually make them bad at competing for the disruption. Companies in fact are specifically organized to under-invest in disruptive innovations! This is one reason why we often suggest that companies set up separate teams or groups to commercialize disruptive innovations. When disruptive innovations have to fight with other innovations for resources, they tend to lose out.

  Clayton Christensen

  Team, Fighting, Innovation

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Our missile technology, our equipment, is better than anybody by a factor of five. I mean look, we have, in terms of technology, nobody can even come close to competing. Now we're going to start getting it, because the military has been cut back and depleted so badly by the past administration and by the war in Iraq, which was another disaster.

  Donald Trump

  Military, War, Mean

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Maybe the discipline in North America is just consolidation, right? I mean, it may be that if there were more vigorous pursuit of antitrust in America, there would have more competitors competing on price, and then airlines wouldn't be making any money again.

  Paul Solman

  Mean, Discipline, Airline

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Physically I'm not as strong as I was, but I try to make up for it mentally. It's a big challenge, and I relish it, competing with guys half my age.

  Karch Kiraly

  Inspirational, Funny, Volleyball

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• A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.

  Edward de Bono

  Ego, Battle, Should

  Edward de Bono (2010). “How To Have A Beautiful Mind”, p.5, Random House

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• Achamian tossed his hands skyward in dismay. “Foolish boy! How many faiths are there? How many competing beliefs? And you would murder another on the slender hope that yours is somehow the only one?

  R. Scott Bakker

  Boys, Hands, Belief

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• People are offering competing visions of what happened in the past. And the justice system is willing to accept either of those competing visions and to impose consequences as a result. When you think of it that way, it's a little bit startling, because we want to believe that there is one truth and, therefore, one justice, whereas, if you have practiced law as long as I have, you realize that there is actually a range of acceptable outcomes.

  Scott Turow

  Believe, Thinking, Past

  Source: www.pbs.org

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