Top 1200 Competition Quotes & Sayings - Page 19
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Last updated on December 26, 2024.
If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you'll be ineffective. If you're disciplined enough, you don't get down when you're behind, and you have a chance to create something positive.
Value is consequently the necessary theoretical starting point whence we can elucidate the peculiar phenomenon of prices resulting from capitalist competition.
What was that you were saying just before the food arrived? Something about me... no competition... best thing that ever happened to you.
While their competition is asleep, world-class leaders are up - and they're not watching the news or reading the paper. They are thinking, planning and practicing.
I've got to think through all of those things - competition for places, players who need match minutes, and keeping the unity of the squad.
I like to watch 'America's Got Talent' every Tuesday just to scout out the competition so I can see what I'm up against.
You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don't make moves and when you don't climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you're not competition.
The Scarlet Pimpernel is the most over-rated human being since Judas Iscariot won the A.D.31 'Best Disciple' competition.
Today, the forces of competition, technology, and globalization have converged to spur innovation and to transform the way business is done in the securities industry.
I think that the failure of newspaper competition in a community is a very serious handicap to the dissemination of the knowledge that the citizens need to participate in a democracy.
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.
Businesses always have competitors nipping at their heels. Historically, cities have not viewed themselves as subject to that same type of competition. But that's wrong.
Malfunctions are inevitable. It's important to push through them during practice - versus stopping to fix and restart - so that you're prepared for one mid-competition.
So long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.
The Vancouver Olympics was the first competition where I completed the short and free programs without any mistakes, and that in itself was a huge achievement.
The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.
Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.
The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.
It was great to win that competition and when people ask me what was my best moment in England, I always say winning my first FA Cup.
Competition in armament, both land and naval, is not only a terrible burden upon the people, but I believe it to be one of the greatest menaces to the peace of the world.
Competition whose motive is merely to compete, to drive some other fellow out, never carries very far.
There's fierce competition between all the networks to get the guest who can bring the most pertinent information about whatever the story of the moment happens to be.
The biggest competition is myself. I am not looking to follow others or pull them down. I'm planning to test my own boundaries.
You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
Believe it or not, one of the first poets I was aware of was Yeats. I recited 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' at a verse speaking competition when I was eight or nine.
Because the sport has changed, competition is not only stronger but it's deeper throughout the field than it's ever been. It's harder to win.
When I'm later in the competition, I get antsy. I'm seeing everybody else go and achieve things. It's like I'm just twiddling my thumbs.
Really good leading roles are few and far between, and there is so much competition because there are so many fantastic actresses in this country.
We can't have these great corporations crowding competition off the sidewalks. It's like an elephant saying, "Everyone for himself," as he dances among the chickens.
My competition is always with my previous song. Each time I start working on a new track, I try to make it better than my last one.
I resist the urge to pump my fist. I'm not sure why, but I feel like I've just won some sort of competition worthy of headlines.
The competition that is the Premier League is the biggest challenge in itself. It's my job to get the players to believe that they can go in to every match and win.
The descents are quite fun - everybody has a sort of competition and tries to go for it and then you compare top speeds when you get to the bottom.
Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if I won a helicopter in a crossword puzzle competition? There is not much hope though I am afraid, as they never give such practical prizes.
You are hungry all the time for the last two months before a competition. Every survival thing on your body is telling you that you must eat.
In New York, the former lack of real competition allowed taxis to extract excessive charges, regardless of the poor service.
I never say "get like me". I would hate for my competition to be on my level. In fact, stay exactly with what your doing.
If I'm training I'm cutting weight for a competition. I'm hard. I'm pretty much eating animal protein and that's it. No rice, no beans, certainly no sweets.
I do look at both of them and think: 'No matter what I have achieved in my career, my daughters are the best thing I have ever created.' No competition at all, really.
This is a business, and no one enters a race not to finish first. I wouldn't say I'm in it for the competition, but I'm certainly not just in it to coast along. I want to be the best I possibly can be.
In the career of a prodigy there invariably comes a time when it is compelled to relinquish being very clever for a child, and has to enter the business of life in competition with adults.
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.
If I didn't have competition and I didn't have people trying to take my spot, then it can make someone lazy. So it does the exact opposite. It motivates me.
I sometimes wonder what would've happened if I'd entered the competition instead - I'd probably have come nowhere and given up on the whole fiction game.
I try to keep things as simple as possible: my job as a javelin thrower is to stay in good shape and do my best at each competition.
I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can't see myself in competition, you know, with second or third generation rock stars.
I've always been one of those folks who think competition is actually a good thing. And if we're going to preach it as a party, we need to practice it.
To build a great business, you have to do something hard just to be able to withstand all the competition that will later come your way.
I'm here to work.. not to like or dislike people. Neither am I here to win a Miss Congeniality competition. I maintain professional relations with my co-stars.
We should not see print and electronic literature as in competition, but rather in conversation. The more voices that join in, the richer the dialogue is likely to be.
I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?
A good game will always snatch my attention. No matter the sport, the spirit of competition and audience is nostalgic and relaxing to me.
I always had a frisson when I heard the Champions League music. To play in that competition, to score a goal in it, is something special for me.
The closer you get to competition the volume of training you actually do is less, so as to allow your body to rest and recover between sessions.
I have seven brothers and two sisters, so there was always a little friendly competition in the house. I don't think that's anything unusual with that many siblings.
When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I was 8. I remember I shot around 125.
We need the ability to buy healthcare insurance across state lines that would increase competition and drive down cost.
I stopped worrying about competition in contemporary art. It feels a little bit more pure. That's where I am, one step back.
