Competing Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• 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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• 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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• I'm playing in the Masters. It's obviously very important to me, and I want to be there. I've worked a lot on my game and I'm looking forward to competing. I'm excited to get to Augusta and I appreciate everyone's support.

  Tiger Woods

  Games, Appreciate, Support

  "Tiger Woods is playing the Masters" by Tony Manfred, www.businessinsider.com. April 3, 2015.

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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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• The development of family entities enables men to cooperate far more effectively. Instead of constantly competing for the women with other men, each man essentially has a partner assigned to him, one with whom he can establish a family.

  Frans de Waal

  Men, Partners, Entity

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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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• Mind is politics, because mind is ambitious and ambition is the root of politics. If you are ambitious you are political. Your ambition may take the form of religion, but the politics is there. Then you are competing with other saints.

  Rajneesh

  Ambition, Roots, Political

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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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• 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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• '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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• 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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• 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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• The Iranian leaders describe the American government exactly the way American analysts describe the Iranian one, as an opaque, factionalized system with competing power centers, over which the president exercises very limited authority.

  Ali Khamenei

  Exercise, Government, Leader

  Source: www.newyorker.com

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• Yeah, no one really grows up competing in the bobsled. You have to be 16 years old before you can even drive one. And there are really only two places in the country where you can bobsled - Park City, Utah, and Lake Placid, New York.

  Elana Meyers

  Country, New York, Growing Up

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I don't have the body or the face for romantic comedies, so I've never been offered those. The challenge is that a lot of people see you only as your last character, so you're constantly competing with whatever your last movie was.

  Glenn Close

  Character, People, Challenges

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

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• When deciding between two competing theories, always go with the one that doesn't involve a magic spell.

  Emo Philips

  Two, Magic, Theory

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• They're a handful, but Emily deals with that all the time and, as an actor, I deal with that all the time, so you just ignore it. When Julia [Jones] first came on set, she was like, "How do you deal with it?," and I told her, "You just tune it out after awhile." They were competing with each other, doing push-ups and just being ridiculous, so you just have to zone out.

  Tinsel Korey

  Tunes, Actors, Firsts

  Source: collider.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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• You must always assume that the relationship between writer and producer is that of adversaries - however you slice it. They may be your dearest friends, and they'll invite you to dinner, but when all the smoke clears and the ozone lifts, your enemy is the producer, that's the guy you're competing with, and you have to battle him, just as if you were an adversary.

  Rod Serling

  Ozone, Guy, Enemy

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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