Competition Quotes - Page 29

• Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

  Bill Bradley

  Basketball, Sports, Baseball

  Bill Bradley (2010). “Life on the Run”, p.216, RosettaBooks

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  If you can't be better than your competition, just dress better.

  Anna Wintour

  Fashion, Hair, Monday Morning

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• You've got to win in your mind before you win in your life.

  John Addison

  Inspirational, Positive Thinking, Winning

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• Our most consequential human problems will be resolved, not through competition, but collaboration... what we need in education is a learning climate in which students work together. In such an atmosphere, truth emerges as authentic insights are conscientiously exchanged.

  Ernest L. Boyer

  Carpe Diem, Atmosphere, Together

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• This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future.

  Albert Einstein

  Attitude, Educational, Evil

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.35, Open Road Media

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• Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism. In the process we have created [a] privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at non-competitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals. Eliminating such restrictions would reduce at least some of the income inequality.

  Alan Greenspan

  America, Labor Force, Immigration

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• Personally, I do not see in Canada it would be a feasible thing if any Ministry organized taking over both the Health and the Disease of the entire community... even in the most favourable circumstances... there would be that absence of competition and that sense of independence... I do not believe it would be good for the profession or good for the Public.

  William Osler

  Believe, Health, Community

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• Enjoy the successes that you have, and don't be too hard on yourself when you don't do well. Too many times we beat up on ourselves. Just relax and enjoy it

  Patty Sheehan

  Success, Sports, Failure

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• The Most Important Thing I Know About the Spirit of Sport... It instills in us the ability to recognize and appreciate the talents of others as well as the gifts we have been given and the ability to work with others as a team. It also allows us to face the challenge of competition, learn from our successes and failures, altogether making us true champions in life.

  Dot Richardson

  Success, Sports, Team

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• It feels amazing - really, really great! It was so nice to be out there and be cherished by all the people. It has been a great event, the best you can experience as an athlete. We are very happy with how everything has worked out in the competition. Everything was very good and we're really happy we accomplished our goal.

  Margaretha Sigfridsson

  Nice, Athlete, People

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• Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be assured to them. Patent fees are so much wasted money. The flying machine of the future will not be born fully fledged and capable of a flight for 1,000 miles or so. Like everything else it must be evolved gradually. The first difficulty is to get a thing that will fly at all. When this is made, a full description should be published as an aid to others. Excellence of design and workmanship will always defy competition.

  Lawrence Hargrave

  Future, Science, Ideas

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• No organization engaged in any specific field of work ever invents any important developers in that field, or adopts any important development in that field until forced to do so by outside competition.

  Reginald Fessenden

  Hard Work, Science, Organization

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• I've been reading an Alabama newspaper that one man shot another man because he beat him in a Bible-quoting competition.

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheist, Reading, Men

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• You might not be able to outthink, outmarket or outspend your competition, but you can outwork them.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Sports, Might

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• A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. When the opponent expands, I contract; and when he contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity, "I" do not hit, "it" hits all by itself.

  Bruce Lee

  Dream, Fighting, Artist

  "Fictional character: Lee". "Enter the Dragon", 1973.

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• Forget your opponents; always play against par.

  Sam Snead

  Golf, Play, Focus

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• I just feel that my competitive drive is far greater than anyone else that I've met, and I think that I thrive on that.

  Michael Jordan

  Motivational, Greatness, Thinking

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• You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession. For instance, if a man has decided that he is going to bite off your nose no matter what happens to him in the process, the chances are he will succeed in doing it. He may be severely beaten up, too, but that will not stop him from carrying out his objective. That is the real fighter.

  Bruce Lee

  Determination, Real, Fighting

  "The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee" by John Little, (p. 161), 1996.

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• Overly focused, it's far from the time to rest now. Debates growin bout who they think is the best now

  Drake

  Time, Determination, Thinking

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• I looked up and saw my flag. But I didn't hear my anthem. The quotation above from 6 ft 4 inch, 286 pound Silver Medalist Ghaffari (who broke down in tears on the medal stand) summed up his disappointment after an overtime loss to Aleksandr Karelin of Russia. A win would have given Ghaffari not only the Olympic gold medal but also his first victory over Karelin, something of which he has literally dreamed about after 20 meets between the two. Karelin dominates international competition in the sport.

  Matt Ghaffari

  Sports, Disappointment, Loss

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• Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition with other groups. It is this motive, in the main, which determines the subjects taught, the knowledge offered and the knowledge withheld, and also decides what mental habits the pupils are expected to acquire. Hardly anything is done to foster the inward growth of mind and spirit; in fact, those who have had the most education are very often atrophied in their mental and spiritual life.

  Bertrand Russell

  Spiritual, Religious, Educational

  "The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959".

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• The nature of competition is such that any number of people invariably have their eyes on the same prize you do. Recognize your assets and employ them to the best of your ability.

  Larry Bird

  Educational, Eye, Numbers

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  Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you.

  Mark Cuban

  Success, Encouragement, Business

  Mark Cuban (2011). “How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It”, p.81, Diversion Books

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• You've got to look for a gap, where competitors in a market have grown lazy and lost contact with the readers or the viewers.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Inspirational, Educational, Lazy

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• Most of your competition spend their days looking forward to those rare moments when everything goes right. Imagine how much leverage you have if you spend your time maximizing those common moments when it doesn't.

  Seth Godin

  Educational, Maximizing, Rare Moments

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