Competition Quotes
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If I were in a position to announce a public competition to coin a new word, I would do so right now.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
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Reflection brakes men cowards. There is no object that can be put in competition with life, unless it is viewed through the medium of passion, and we are hurried away by the impulse of the moment.
William Hazlitt
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My hands are heavy and most importantly they are very fast. I have been called the fastest white man alive. I don't work submissions and not because I am trying to prove something I'm just frankly not very good at 'em. I am very good at getting away. I've never fought anybody whether it was in practice or competition who could hold me down. Even if I thought I could get a submission I'm not laying underneath a grown man with my legs spread on worldwide T.V. Some guys subscribe to that theory but I am a Republican and we don't do that
Chael Sonnen
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I've always felt, and I think I'm qualified to say so because I've won a few awards, that it's a terrible shame to put something in competition with something else to be able to sell something.
John Hurt
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Todd brings a veteran presence to the team and he'll be one of the catchers in the competition for the backup spot behind Mike Matheny.
Brian Sabean
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A lot of people still like Solaris, but I'm in active competition with them, and so I hope they die.
Linus Torvalds
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I want the films of every person I am compared to and am reportedly in competition with to do better than me.
Varun Dhawan
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As Maharashtrian actors, we are very conscious about our decisions in Bollywood. It's not cakewalk. Bollywood is vast, and there is a lot of competition. I don't want to be doing something small there.
Amruta Khanvilkar
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Whenever competition is feasible it is, for all its imperfections, superior to regulation as a means of serving the public interest.
Alfred Kahn
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It's competition. It's putting them in environments, in situations where I want to see who the fighters are and who they guys are that are going to compete. And there will be rewards at the end of the day. Gatorade if you win. You drink out of a water hose if you lose and do some running. And that includes the coaching staff.
Urban Meyer
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My imagination was no competition for nature.
Jim Toomey
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Don't fear sharing your best ideas online: 1) Competition already knows what you are up to 2) People like leaders not followers.
David Meerman Scott
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There is competition. It's almost like I'm back in tennis competing in a way. There are usually about twenty composers vying for the number one spot for a big or medium film.
Aaron Zigman
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As much as I very much want audiences to watch FX's carefully curated and highly contextualized television shows, I'm now glad when anyone takes the time to watch even our competition's television series, as long as it demands their sustained attention and challenges their knee-jerk perceptions.
John Landgraf
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Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition.
Dwight Morrow
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It was my first competition of the year, so I did feel some pressure.
Yelena Isinbayeva
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Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy.
John Ralston Saul
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Greed and competition are not the result of immutable human temperment…greed and fear of scarcity are in fact being created and amplified …the direct consequence is that we have to fight with each other in order to survive
Bernard Lietaer
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Anyone living, especially your peers, is a threat. You're judging them, they're judging you. This sort of criticism is as close to human nature as you can get. That can be a good thing sometimes. Jealously, rancor, competition, those can be good things in art. But it mostly puts you in a dangerous and disadvantageous position, and one that just takes away from you so much.
Raymond Pettibon Black Flag
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This is my future and I will take personal responsibility for making sure all competition requirements are met.
Kim Collins
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I get to a competition and feel out the slopestyle course and kind of see which directions the jumps are flowing and which way I feel like I can do my tricks.
Jamie Anderson
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To tell you the truth, if you're looking at rising pretty high, then you need to find a way of taking care of these problems and not taking time off. At the end of the day, it is a very tough competition. And in a very tough competition, if you just take breaks, then it's going to become much, much more difficult.
Arundhati Bhattacharya
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Continued innovation is the best way to beat the competition.
Thomas A. Edison
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Banks and other providers of credit to households have been competing vigorously to expand or protect their market share. In the process, lending standards have been progressively eroded so that lenders are now engaging in practices that would have been regarded as out of the question five or ten years ago.
Ian Macfarlane