A Quote by Paul Theroux

Writing ... is practically the only activity a person can do that is not competitive.

Paul Theroux

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Paul Theroux
American - Novelist
Born: April 10, 1941

I'm a competitive person and it is in my nature to try hard in every match I play. The only time I'm not competitive is when I'm playing against my mom.

Michael Chang

Hate, like prayer, changes the person involved in the activity, not the person the activity is aimed at.

John Templeton

Chomsky proceeds on the almost unthinkably subversive assumption that the United States should be judged by the same standards that it preaches (often at gunpoint) to other nations he is nearly the only person now writing who assumes a single standard of international morality not for rhetorical effect, but as a matter of habitual, practically instinctual conviction.

Christopher Hitchens

One of the most important elements of my identity is my identity as a reader. I love to read - really, if I'm honest with myself, it's practically the only activity that I truly love to do.

Gretchen Rubin

I'm a very competitive person. I always have been. And it's hard to be competitive about something as amorphous as acting. But you can be competitive on the track, because the rules are very simple and the declaration of the winner is very concise.

Paul Newman

I do consider myself a competitive person, but I'm not competitive to the point where I will do anything to win. I wouldn't step on somebody just to get to the next level. I would have to do it fair and square. I'm kind of competitive in a way to where I like to figure out things myself, and if I need help, I'll ask.

Jordin Sparks

I'm not into being competitive. I never saw myself as a competitive type of person.

Nonito Donaire

Here's the first major lesson: Writing is not an activity. It's not something you sit down at the keyboard, and just start doing. That's called 'typing.' Typing is an activity ... Writing is a process. And if you start thinking of it as a process, life gets so much easier.

Jeff Bollow

I've never felt competitive; I'm not a competitive person. In general, I try not to be!

Stefflon Don

Effective leadership is the only competitive advantage that will endure. That's because leadership has two sides- what a person is character and what a person does- competence.

Stephen Covey

Writing! The activity for which the only adequate bribe is the possibility of suicide, one day.

Joyce Carol Oates

There is practically no activity that cannot be enhanced or replaced by knitting, if you really want to get obsessive about it.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

I am a very competitive person in everything. Not only F1 but in everyday life.

Fernando Alonso

The Bible, taken as a whole, can be used to praise or condemn practically any human activity, thought, belief, or practice.

Peter McWilliams

If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.

Alan Bennett

The animal is one with its life activity. It does not distinguish the activity from itself. It is its activity. But man makes hislife activity itself an object of his will and consciousness. He has a conscious life activity. It is not a determination with which he is completely identified.

Karl Marx

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