Mildred Dresselhaus Quotes

Some people don't like competition, but competition is fine. It generates new ideas, keeps you alert.

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• I think I tried to separate indoors and out. And so when he beat me indoors, I did not see that as letting anybody down, I saw it as a good head to head competition, and so it was. It was fine.

  

  Ralph Boston
  • Good
  • Think
  • Competition

• We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal competition and external competition. We simplified and rationalized the tax system. We made risk-taking much more attractive.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • People
  • Government
  • Risk

• I think that tennis has been in a place for many years without any change. Davis Cup and Fed Cup has always been a very exciting platform for players because it is such an individual sport, and we get to play a team competition. We love being part of a team.

  

  Mahesh Bhupathi
  • Think
  • Team
  • Change

• My highest point was the first thing I won, a short story competition in a women's magazine in the Eighties. It was the first time I'd had my writing validated, and the first thing I'd ever shown anyone else.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Women

• America's peak years of indigenous innovation ran from the 1820s to the 1960s. There were a few financial panics and two depressions, to be sure. But in this period, a frenzy of creative activity, economic competition and rapid growth in national income provided widening economic inclusion, rising wages for all, and engaging careers for most.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • America
  • Growth
  • Period

• A friend told me about a Nike competition, where they give you one minute to do tricks with a basketball. I wasn't going to go, but they were giving away free sneakers. I ended up coming in second place.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Up
  • Free
  • Giving

• I train for around 3-4 hours everyday. It can go up to 6-7 hours when a competition is approaching.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Up
  • Competition
  • Everyday

• A variety of factors contribute to the price of gasoline in the United States. These factors include worldwide supply, demand and competition for crude oil, taxes, regional differences in access to gasoline supplies and environmental regulations.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Competition
  • Environmental

• Small- and medium-sized businesses need access to a diverse range of finance options, including non-bank lending. These new forms of finance are still small in scale today but they should, over time, bring additional choice and greater competition to the lending market.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Time
  • Today
  • Small

• Tennis is a hard sport. There is a lot of competition all year and you play alone.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Alone
  • Competition
  • Year

• I had a novel in the back of my mind when I won an Ian St James story competition in 1993. At the award ceremony an agent asked me if I was writing a novel. I showed her four or five chapters of what would become 'Behind the Scenes at the Museum' and to my surprise she auctioned them off.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • She

• What typically emerges from looking at kids, gifted and ordinary, is that, from the kids’ point of view, accomplishment, that is, the private sense of mastery, the hard thing suddenly made easy, counts for far more in their inner lives than does the achievement-the competition won, the reward secured.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Kids
  • Competition
  • Achievement

• Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force you to accept a rate of return less than you hoped for, or for that matter to accept temporary losses.

  

  Alfred P. Sloan
  • May
  • Competition

• Thou shalt not covet, but traditionApproves all forms of competition.

  

  Arthur Hugh Clough
  • Competition

• Liberals hate religion because politics is a religion substitute for liberals and they can't stand the competition.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Hate
  • Competition

• The benefit is competition, the thrill of playing in the Olympics, being an Olympian, playing against the best.

  

  Joe Sakic
  • Competition

• When a company identifies how to integrate the processes needed to give the consumer a sense of job completion, it can blow away the competition. A product is easy to copy, but experiences are very hard to replicate.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Job
  • Competition
  • Blow

• Hence we did not foster competition in our school, on the contrary.

  

  Dora Russell
  • School
  • Competition

• Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don't support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck.

  

  James Altucher
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• Reality TV finds talented people. There are no scripts. The editing is what it's all about. Great editing makes those shows.

  

  Pete Waterman
  • People
  • Great
  • Reality

• When theologians read the Bible through the lens of the Exodus narrative, they are called “liberation theologians,” but their counterparts who read it through the Greco-Roman narrative are never labeled “domination theologians” or “colonization theologians.” Similarly, we have “black theology” and “feminist theology,” but Greco-Roman orthodoxy is never called “white theology” or “male theology.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • Bible
  • Theologians
  • Exodus narrative

• I didn't know any poets growing up in Kansas.

  

  Kevin Young
  • Up
  • Growing

• Some people don't like competition, but competition is fine. It generates new ideas, keeps you alert.

  

  Mildred Dresselhaus
  • Competition
  • Alert
  • Generates