Competition Quotes - Page 13

• Most women prefer circles of sharing to pyramids and hierarchies. They prefer conversation to construction. They will usually choose nurturance and empathy over competition and climbing. They will normally choose connection over simple performance games.

  Richard Rohr

  Simple, Climbing, Games

  "Gender, God and Spirituality" by Richard Rohr, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 28, 2012.

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• Competition for status is a zero sum game

  Richard Layard, Baron Layard

  Zero, Games, Zero Sum Game

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• Elderly people are like plants. Whereas some go to seed, or to pot, others blossom in the most wonderful ways. I believe beauty competitions should be held only for people over seventy years of age. When we are young, we have the face and figure God gave us. We did nothing to earn our good looks. But as we get older, character becomes etched on our face. Beautiful old people are works of art. Like a white candle in a holy place, so it the beauty of an aged face.

  James Simpson

  Beautiful, Art, Believe

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• We care about equality and democracy within the band and outside the band. For us life is about cooperation and solidarity, not about egotism, greed, or competition. This means that we prefer to work with people and bands that have a similar sort of mentality and attitude.

  G.W. Sok

  Attitude, Mean, People

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• We are not competing for the good when we only compete for numbers, being preoccupied with how many converts we are gaining. The true competition for good only happens when we are implementing our values of justice.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Numbers, Justice, Competing

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• There's always competition, especially in the EDM scene, but that keeps me motivated and focused. Everybody is really friendly though. I always enjoy seeing other guys at gigs or festivals. So yeah, there is competition but there are also lots of good vibes.

  Martin Garrix

  Edm, Guy, Friendly

  Source: elliesimpsonblog.wordpress.com

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• I'm not in a competition with any other artist, anything that's goin' on - I'm strictly competing with myself.

  Joe Budden

  Artist, Competing

  Source: djbooth.net

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• I know in college, a player is playing for something every year so it is constantly competitive while in residency although you're playing with the top players in your age, you don't have many competitions other than the U-17 or U-20 World Cups.

  Steve Purdy

  Player, College, Years

  "Profile of a Golden Bear: Steve Purdy". BerkeleySportsBlog.com Interview, www.californiagoldenblogs.com. October 26, 2009.

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• I have been in competitions for commissions. I've won most and lost some. Mostly, I've won.

  Robert Barry

  Lost, Has Beens

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Billy Beane was a guy who had been devalued by the sport as a player and now is working as a GM for a small-market team.There is such a gulf in what these teams have to spend on talent [that] they can never play equally - they can never have a true competition.

  Brad Pitt

  Sports, Team, Player

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Human rights groups are locked in a fierce competition for big checks from wealthy donors and they need to generate big headlines.

  Paul Kagame

  Rights, Groups, Needs

  "Exclusive interview: Paul Kagame, president of Rwanda". Interview with Tony Metcalf, www.metro.us. August 29, 2012.

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• It's easy to get young gay men to tickle each other, right? Let's come up with a challenge: Let's get heterosexual men. How do we do that? We make it a competition, because then it's not gay. That explains the antipathy behind the gay-journalist comment.

  David Farrier

  Gay, Men, Challenges

  "He made a movie about competitive tickling. But then things got truly weird". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. July 2, 2016.

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• Here, the certain temple rule, this seems to me to have a certain responsibility to look after the well-being of society and look after Buddhism and culture. I consider these part of the practice of spirituality. There is no competition between spiritual practice and party politics. That is outdated. We already, since 2001, have elected political position. My position is semi-retired. I am looking forward to complete retirement.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Retirement, Party

  Source: www.opti-mystical.com

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• Going back to the elementary school days, I was always drawing. I entered a Victory poster competition and won the top award that recognized my artistic instincts.

  Paul Smith

  School, Drawing, Awards

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• Chief Justice [John] Roberts compared judges to umpires, who apply rules they did not write and cannot change to the competition before them.

  Orrin Hatch

  Writing, Umpires, Justice

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I love to watch football.I actually really love to watch almost any competition with a score at the end.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Football, Watches, Ends

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• My sport has transformed my body to be powerful for a specific task over years of training and competition. The more tuned for competition I am, the less "feminine" I look, and it has made me feel powerful on the track but self-conscious in the sack. That transformed for me as I let go of feminine ideals of all kinds, in work, parenting, etc.

  Lauren Fleshman

  Sports, Letting Go, Powerful

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• I'm a rock climber. I really specialize in doing first ascents, and finding new routes outside, as opposed to doing competitions. I focus my energy on going out into nature and finding these new climbs. For me, it's not just this athletic pursuit - it's a really creative, artistic thing of finding these amazing formations out in nature, and mixing that with this high level of athleticism.

  Chris Sharma

  Rocks, Focus, Creative

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• I don't underestimate the power of mental preparation throughout all of my training. I'm in a much better state of mind about competition.

  Amanda Beard

  Preparation, Training, Mind

  "Olympic Gold Medalist Amanda Beard on Competing, Cross-Training & Children". Interview with Chelsea Logan, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 1, 2014.

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• When people say that kids change your life, it's no small feat what they do. I've stressed about competition my whole life, but the minute I held my son Blaise in my arms for the first time, those stresses diminished.

  Amanda Beard

  Stress, Kids, Son

  "Olympic Gold Medalist Amanda Beard on Competing, Cross-Training & Children". Interview with Chelsea Logan, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Malfunctions are inevitable. It's important to push through them during practice - versus stopping to fix and restart - so that you're prepared for one mid-competition.

  Amanda Beard

  Practice, Important, Stopping

  "Olympic Gold Medalist Amanda Beard on Competing, Cross-Training & Children". Interview with Chelsea Logan, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I thank my dad for my mental longevity and for the fact we played against better competition.

  Karch Kiraly

  Dad, Facts, Longevity

  Source: www.stack.com

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• Playing against better competition makes you better and more focused, so you can do what you have to, to win.

  Karch Kiraly

  Winning, Can Do, Focused

  Source: www.stack.com

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• I think the most important thing when you are in a competition and you have, let's say, ingredients you have to use make something you did already because none of the judges, you know, probably had it in our lifetime, so I think do something you feel confident with, not something completely new where you are not sure how many hours or how many minutes you have to cook it or if the seasoning is right or if the combinations of spices and herbs are right.

  Wolfgang Puck

  Thinking, Judging, Important

  Source: seriesandtv.com

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• It took me a full year of black eyes and a bruised and battered tailbone to learn how to do a crippler in the half-pipe. It was a trick that no one else was really doing, and it was scary! But I stuck with it, and one day, it finally clicked. The crippler has been my signature trick ever since, and it's what helped me be so successful in competition.

  Gretchen Bleiler

  Eye, Successful, Years

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