Competitiveness Quotes - Page 6

• I don't think you can be a director without a kind of sense of competitiveness.

  David Heyman

  Thinking, Directors, Kind

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Energy is significantly underpriced in many parts of the world, leading to wasteful consumption, price volatility and fuel smuggling. It's also undermining the competitiveness of renewables.

  Fatih Birol

  Business, Energy, Climate

  "Phasing out fossil fuel subsidies 'could provide half of global carbon target'" by Duncan Clark, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2012.

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• Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.

  Ben Horowitz

  Smart, People, Problem

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• Modern schools and universities push students into habits of depersonalized learning, alienation from nature and sexuality, obedience to hierarchy, fear of authority, self-objectification, and chilling competitiveness. These character traits are the essence of the twisted personality-type of modern industrialism. They are precisely the character traits needed to maintain a social system that is utterly out of touch with nature, sexuality and real human needs.

  Arthur Evans

  Real, School, Character

  Arthur Evans (1978). “Witchcraft and the Gay counterculture: a radical view of Western civilization and some of the people it has tried to destroy”, Bookpeople

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• Today's competitiveness, so much imposed from without, is exhausting, not exhilarating; is unending-a part of one's social life, one's solitude, one's sleep, one's sleeplessness.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Sleep, Competition, Solitude

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• When women finally get liberated, they'll do the same that men do--dog eat dog-- that's what our culture is.... Not cooperation but assassination. Women will cooperate until they attain certain goals. Then one will begin to destroy the other.

  Alice Neel

  Dog, Men, Goal

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• You must not only have competitiveness but ability, regardless of the circumstance you face, to never quit

  Abby Wambach

  Never Quit, Faces, Quitting

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• The key problem is the debt restructuring in the euro zone. As long as the debt burden is not reduced, there is no chance of the weaker EU countries regaining competitiveness.

  George Soros

  Country, Keys, Long

  "George Soros on the Euro Crisis". Interview with Der Spiegel, www.georgesoros.com. June 26, 2012.

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• Seeing the same coverages, the same personnel, and for us to change the whole scenery, and bring somebody else in that’s necessarily competitive, a professional competitiveness, where guys are respecting each other’s careers, but yet are getting better. For us to come out here and a get a win, I think it helped us with those practices.

  Cam Newton

  Winning, Player, Thinking

  "Interview With Carolina Panthers' Cam Newton After Win Over the Miami Dolphins". Interview with Jason Fletcher, www.rantsports.com. August 23, 2015.

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• While directing in theater that the actors will - I don't know if it's competitiveness or what it is, but they love to make each other laugh. They love to impress each other in rehearsal. They'll try something for a reaction. But in film, you're very often not all together in the room at the same time. You're shooting one day, somebody else is shooting the next. It's a totally different dynamic.

  Israel Horovitz

  Laughing, Trying, One Day

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• We [chefs] are competitive, although I think you need to be careful with competitiveness as it can become quite negative.

  Paul Rankin

  Thinking, Negative, Needs

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I try to have a very well-rounded group of friends that did a lot of different things and weren't just performers. Because I feel like there's both less feeling of competitiveness, and it put my own career in perspective.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Careers, Perspective, Feelings

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Again and again, universities have put a low priority on the very programs and initiatives that are needed most to increase productivity and competitiveness, improve the quality of government, and overcome the problems of illiteracy, miseducation, and unemployment.

  Derek Bok

  Government, Priorities, Quality

  Derek Curtis Bok (1990). “Universities and the Future of America”, p.41

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• There is a great sense of community within the Montessori classroom, where children of differing ages work together in an atmosphere of cooperation rather than competitiveness. There is respect for the environment and for the individuals within it, which comes through experience of freedom within the community.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Community, Atmosphere

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• Excellence and competitiveness aren't incompatible with honesty and integrity.

  Jack Welch

  Positive, Honesty, Integrity

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