Competing Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• 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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• 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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• So many dictators trying to blackmail the free world because they have no way to compete on ideas, innovation or creativity. The Cold War was two competing visions of the future. I was always anti-communist but it was an idea at least, an alternative idea. We do not have a competing vision for the future because the ideals of these dictators are in the past. They are time travellers. They need confrontation and destruction to survive. The problem is, many people in the free world are sympathetic to Vladimir Putin.

  Garry Kasparov

  War, Creativity, Past

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• Competing with other women wastes a lot of time, and I'm just not very good at it.

  Sandra Bullock

  Waste, Very Good

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• Antitrust law isn't about protecting competing businesses from each other, it's about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.

  Al Franken

  Law, Competition, Antitrust

  "How Privacy Has Become an Antitrust Issue". Al Franken's speech to the American Bar Association Atnitrust Section, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2012.

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• If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

  Marilyn Monroe

  Men, Ulcers, Bank Accounts

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• In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the scientific method that can determine in a robust way which ideas match the real world, and which ones can be ruled out. So conflicting ideologies persist indefinitely.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Real, Ideas, People

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• Imagine how foolish you'd look if, like one clever salesman who once pitched to me, you tried to license your product to a big industry player without knowing they just launched a competing product. With the right background research, he could have avoided that and other landmines - and so can you.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Clever, Player, Knowing

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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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• 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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• I just always expect the best because I'm a competitor and if I'm competing, then obviously I'm trying to be better in everything.

  Lil Wayne

  Trying, Competitors, Ifs

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• I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Football, Team, Sacrifice

  "Failure to Launch: When Beauty Fades". www.elle.com. May 20, 2009.

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• I think you can get a sort of intensity and an edginess offering nine stories in a book. Competing versions of things.

  Colm Toibin

  Book, Thinking, Offering

  "Exclusive Interview: Colm Toibin Talks About His New Story Collection". Interview with Anis Shivani, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2011.

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• There are so many noises and pulls and competing demands in our lives that many of us never find out who we are. Learn to be quiet enough to hear the sound of the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in other people.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  People, Sound, Demand

  Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.61, Beacon Press

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• I am taking a risk with my claycourt schedule. It is pretty heavy from now up until Roland Garros. I am scheduled to have one week off before Paris. Playing here is not as tiring as competing abroad. I wanted to see this tournament happen and now that we have the event, I want to see it grow.

  Juan Carlos Ferrero

  Paris, Risk, Events

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• Every Super Bowl, I do different food each quarter from each of the hometowns of the teams competing. So I’m always hoping for cities with a gastronomic soul—not so much Indianapolis or Denver, right? For halftime we have New York hot dogs from Papaya Dog. And at the end of the game I’ve chosen a dessert based on who I think is going to win.

  Mario Batali

  Dog, New York, Team

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• I think I dreamed about competing at the Olympics, maybe hoping to win a gold medal. Not that I ever thought that I would, but I dreamed about it.

  Dorothy Hamill

  Winning, Thinking, Gold

  "Gold Medal Figure Skater". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 17, 2000.

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• Brett Favre plays for championships. That's the only reason he puts up with all of this stuff. He's going to start to figure out, if it's true, that the Packers are not going to be competing for championships. The moment that comes into his heart - oh my gosh, the Packers are not going to be able to make it - that's the day he retires. It won't take much once he realizes that's where the Packers are going.

  Steve Young

  Heart, Play, Able

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• "Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to choose from. But my all-time favorite moment in collegiate sports has to be in 1982 when we won UCLA's first NCAA title in track."

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Inspirational, Basketball, Sports

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• By being a racing driver you are under risk all the time. By being a racing driver means you are racing with other people. And if you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver because we are competing, we are competing to win. And the main motivation to all of us is to compete for victory, it's not to come 3rd, 4th, 5th or 6th. I race to win as long as I feel it's possible. Sometimes you get it wrong? Sure, it's impossible to get it right all the time. But I race designed to win, as long as I feel I'm doing it right.

  Ayrton Senna

  Motivation, Mean, Winning

  Interview at the 1990 Australian Grand Prix, November 1990.

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• The deepest bonds of unity are forged through the trial of competing ideals that have compatible values.

  Wes Fesler

  Unity, Trials, Forged

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• Banks and other providers of credit to households have been competing vigorously to expand or protect their market share. In the process, lending standards have been progressively eroded so that lenders are now engaging in practices that would have been regarded as out of the question five or ten years ago.

  Ian Macfarlane

  Years, Practice, Competition

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• What you really are afraid of is that you're competing against somebody who is rich and irrational. I mean, it used to be a given, a saying in the industry: Don't ever bid against Rupert Murdoch for anything Rupert wants, because if you win you lose. You will have paid way too much.

  John C. Malone

  Mean, Winning, Way

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