Competition Quotes - Page 28

• The old system where every child was locked away and set into nonstop, daily cut throat competition with every other child for silly prizes called grades is broken beyond repair. If it could be fixed it could have been fixed by now. Good riddance.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Children, Silly, Learning

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• School presents daily exercises in dis-association. It forces unwelcome associations on most of its prisoners. It sets petty, meaningless competitions in motion on a daily basis, pitting potential associates against one another in contests for praise and other worthless prizes.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Learning, School, Exercise

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• When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

  Laozi

  Relationship, Respect, Being Yourself

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• More than ever, the creation of the ridiculous is almost impossible because of the competition it receives from reality.

  Robert A. Baker

  Science, Reality, Ridiculous

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• It seems to me that today, if the artist wishes to be serious - to cut out a little original niche for himself, or at least preserve his own innocence of personality - he must once more sink himself in solitude. There is too much talk and gossip; pictures are apparently made, like stock-market prices, by competition of people eager for profit; in order to do anything at all we need (so to speak) the wit and ideas of our neighbors as much as the businessmen need the funds of others to win on the market. All this traffic sharpens our intelligence and falsifies our judgment.

  Edgar Degas

  Cutting, Artist, Winning

  Edgar Degas' notebook entry (circa 1860), as quoted in "Artists on Art: From the XIV to the XX Century" edited by Robert Goldwater, 1945.

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• You're not in competition with other women. You're in competition with everyone.

  Tina Fey

  Business, Another Woman, Bossypants

  "Bossypants". Book by Tina Fey, April 05, 2011.

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• I think it's the mark of a great player to be confident in tough situations.

  John McEnroe

  Success, Sports, Self Confidence

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• All great stars are competitive. That's a sign of a true artist - if you don't have the fire of competition deep down inside, you're never going to achieve anything. You have to want to be king of the heap.

  Camille Paglia

  Dance, Kings, Stars

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• Competition [in a scene] is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get along. And they are therefore not first-rate actors.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Healthy, Acting, Actors

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• Competition is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get along. And they are therefore not first-rate actors. The good actor is the one who competes, willingly, who enjoys competing. An actor must compete, or die...Peacefulness and the avoidance of trouble won't help in his acting. It is just the opposite he must seek.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Opposites, Healthy, Acting

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• Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.

  Michael Caine

  Acting, Done, Film

  Michael Caine (2000). “Acting in Film: An Actor's Take on Movie Making”, p.64, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.

  Nido R Qubein

  Inspirational, Workout, Badass

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• Advertising and the free society are closely connected. Advertising helps to make a free society remain so by increasing competition, and by helping to maintain the freedom of the mass media themselves. The free society is one where advertising and advertising agencies are likely to be in considerable demand, though it is true that even in a totally centralist society there would still be a need for organisations and people to have access to mass communication media.

  John Treasure

  Business, Communication, Agency

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• Never letting the competition define you. Instead, you have to define yourself based on a point of view you care deeply about.

  Tom Chappell

  Being Strong, Winning, Views

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• You have to establish your love. You should feel a hankering for others. Now the competition has to change, the style of competition among Sahaja Yogis. The competition should be how much you love. Who loves more ? Let there be a competition who obliges more, who shares more ? Who loves others more ?

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• When blessed with wealth, let them withdraw from the competition of vanity and be modest, retiring from ostentation, and not be the slaves of fashion.

  William Wilberforce

  Fashion, Blessed, Vanity

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• My grandmother lived in a universe filled with life. It was impossible for her to conceive of any creature - even the smallest insect, let alone a human being - as insignificant. In every leaf, flower, animal, and star she saw an expression of a compassionate universe, whose laws were not competition and survival of the fittest but cooperation, artistry and thrift. . . .

  Eknath Easwaran

  Stars, Flower, Grandmother

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• Realize that the reason most people fail isn't because of the competition but because of the limits they place upon themselves, allowing defeat to take over. Take responsibility for your destiny. You can come up with a performance, if you can reach down and dig deep enough into your competitive soul. You can overcome tremendous obstacles.

  Bruce Jenner

  Self Esteem, Responsibility, Destiny

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• It's all about the journey, not the outcome.

  Carl Lewis

  Motivational, Athlete, Journey

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• The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Sports, Fun, Athlete

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• Sometimes it's just the beer and bikinis that get people to come and watch, but it's the competition that's keeping them there.

  Kerri Walsh

  Athlete, Beer, People

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• The most important attribute a player must have is mental toughness.

  Mia Hamm

  Athlete, Player, Important

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• Competitive toughness is an acquired skill and not an inherited gift.

  Chris Evert

  Meaningful, Athlete, Skills

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• When I'm in my groove there is no thinking. Everything just happens.

  Ozzie Smith

  Athlete, Thinking, Groove

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

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• You've got to look for tough competition. You've got to want to beat the best.

  Grete Waitz

  Motivational Sports, Athlete, Looks

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