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• Whenever you face a man who's playing your instrument, there's a competition.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Men, Faces, Instruments

  Interview with Steve LeVeille, radiofreesteve.wordpress.com. 1994.

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• Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in your category of strong desires. You must set in operation a process of competition, from which one must emerge a victor and the other set be defeated.

  Robert Collier

  Strong, Kindness, Desire

  Robert Collier (2013). “The Magic Word”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition.

  Robert B. Parker

  Funny, Writing, People

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• Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

  Gian Carlo Menotti

  Beauty, Art, Flower

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• Airlines go in the long run at the competition to reason. For the passenger the competition is good, because each competitor tries to undercut the other one.

  Niki Lauda

  Running, Long, Trying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades.

  John P. Kotter

  Change, Next, Speed

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• So I think instead of focusing on the competition, focus on the customer.

  Scott D. Cook

  Educational, Thinking, Focus

  Interview with Michael J. Miller, www.pcmag.com. November 18, 2003.

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• A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.

  Frank Shorter

  Softball, Sports, Athlete

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• Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Winning, Ninety Nine, Ideas

  "Rebuilding the rubble" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2002.

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• There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Two, Stronger, Pakistan

  Speech at Islamia College for women, March 25, 1940.

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• I look at sport and competition as something that has been personally enormously beneficial to me. It's helped me create life skills. And if we carry ourselves with grace and dignity and try our best - even when we fall on our faces, as will happen sometimes - then I think people will see that. And that will be the message of sport and the Olympics.

  Joey Cheek

  Sports, Fall, Thinking

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• Winning isn't getting ahead of others, it is getting ahead of yourself.

  Roger Staubach

  Success, Winning, Get Ahead

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• It's not rage that drives me, it's competition.

  Lennox Lewis

  Boxing, Rage

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• No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style.

  Jim Henson

  Style, Puppeteer

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• You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.

  Maya Lin

  Fun, School, Worry

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• I mean, the competition is really created by the buzz around the Emmys. It's a totally subjective thing.

  Michael C. Hall

  Mean, Buzz, Subjectivity

  "American Morning With Paula Zahn" with Bill Hemmer, www.cnn.com. August 2, 2002.

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• You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don't make moves and when you don't climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you're not competition.

  Nicki Minaj

  Moving, Love You, People

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• In life, we choose whether or not we want to be a winner or a loser.

  John Patrick Boles

  Want, Loser, Winner

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• You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting

  Ed Harris

  Religious, Fighting, Oil

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• We should know that only replacing the economics of competition and greed with the economics of equitable cooperation will guarantee a globalization that takes advantage of potential efficiency gains in ways that also promote environmental protection, international equity, economic democracy, and variety.

  Robin Hahnel

  Greed, Democracy, Environmental

  Robin Hahnel (1999). “Panic rules!: everything you need to know about the global economy”, South End Pr

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• Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition.

  T Bone Burnett

  Pregnancy, Civilization, Musician

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• You, and you alone, are the person who should take the measure of your own success. . . . I do not try to be better than anyone else. I only try to be better than myself.

  Dan Jansen

  Trying, Should, Persons

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• Running became boring because it's so predictable. I got to a point where I knew what my competition could do.

  Peter Snell

  Running, Boring, Predictable

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• Reality is a genre that seems to be here to stay. I don't know how many of the new shows will last, but the more competition you have, the harder that pie is to slice up.

  Jeff Probst

  Reality, Pie, Lasts

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• I think it's really important to look at the big picture instead of just one competition

  Shannon Miller

  Thinking, Important, Looks

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