Competition Quotes
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Thou shalt not covet, but traditionApproves all forms of competition.
Arthur Hugh Clough
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Competitions make me nervous. When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating and not, 'I have to do this to win.' I forget it is a competition.
Katarina Witt
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Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people.
David Sarnoff
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I loved the game - I loved the competition. But I never had any fun. All hard work - all the time.
Carl Yastrzemski
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Competition like that seen between Blue Origin and SpaceX is key to rapid progress in space.
Bruce Pittman
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I didn't realize until I was doing commentary what a gladiator-like competition tennis is - other than no one dies. The crowd is waiting for the players to come, and they walk through the tunnel, and they get on the court, and they get out their rackets, their weapons, and now they start.
Martina Navratilova
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A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.
James Cash Penney
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Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
Bill Joy
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I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience.
Maria Sharapova
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Even if we were friends, I consider this a sport, a competition, so there are no ill feelings towards any other fighter or whatever.
Alistair Overeem
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Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers. In the United States, we import everything consumers want. So why not pharmaceuticals?
Chuck Grassley
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This level of competition is extremely high. Everybody is trained. Everybody has a game plan. Everybody has a nutritionist. Everybody has everything. It's here that you realize, as people, we're all equal.
Alistair Overeem
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An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.
Patti Smith
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Even though I enjoy that head-to-head competition part, one of the things that drove me to long track was if I won or if I lost I want to know it's all on my shoulders and it didn't have anything to do with anybody else.
Bonnie Blair
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The only way to beat the competition is to stop trying to beat the competition
W. Chan Kim
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A gene that promotes nurturing behavior postcopulation could... spread throughout the population, to the extent that the offspring of people with the nurturing gene fare better, as a group, in the competition for resources and mates.
Daniel Levitin
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Abolish competition and replace it with association.
Friedrich Engels
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Barring some competition from whales, wolves are probably America's most popular wild animal. Wolves are also contenders for America's most unpopular wild animal, with perhaps some competition from coyotes.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
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I don't want to be in competition with anyone. I'm friends with women I work with and I applaud any success they have in their careers. And I'm not just saying that because it sounds good, I genuinely want people to do well and have success.
Charissa Thompson
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Human nature being what it is, peace must inevitably be a relative condition. The essence of life is struggle and competition, and to that extent perfect peace is an almost meaningless abstraction. Struggle and competition are stimulating, but when they degenerate into conflict it is usually both destructive and disruptive. The aim of political institutions like the United Nations is to draw the line between struggle and conflict and to make it possible for nations to stay on the right side of that line.
Javier Perez de Cuellar
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My crazy training-and-competition schedule leaves very little time to focus on my hair.
Lindsey Vonn
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I was kind of freaked out by the art world in the 1980s. Just the money thing. All the competition over artists.
Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
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In the arts they call it plagiarism, in business they call it competition.
Andrew Mason
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My mother was willing to support art as a summer program for me. She never supported it as a career decision until I won the National Gallery Portrait Competition.
Amy Sherald