Quotes About Competition

The chip industry faced an organized assault by the world's second-largest economy and the one-party state that ruled it.

The winner of a knife fight was the man who bled to death slowest.

So the big day finally arrives, you are set to enter the ring as a judge for the first time. You have refreshed your memory by re-reading the breed Standard, watching the breed video until you can hum the theme by heart, and studying an Illustrated Standard. You know all you need to know about the idiosyncrasies of the breed, where the breed is strong, and where improvement is needed.

A y regarder de près, les 7 péchés capitaux sont éminemment favorables à l'économie : l'envie, la gourmandise, la luxure font acheter, la colère fait travailler, la paresse fait jouir, l'orgueil avive la compétition et l'avarice favorise l'épargne. C'est d'ailleurs le propre du système capitaliste que de transformer ainsi tout ce qu'il touche, même le pire, en or.

she belonged to the great race of human beings who regard life as a series of piracies of all powers.

First game I win, I get your panties. The second game I win, I make you scream.

Have to do what? One-upmanship. I kill one, you have to kill two. The big bad hunter flexing his muscles. It's annoying. You are not going to whine simply because I have superior hunting skills, are you? He rubbed her knuckles along his jaw, wanting the contact. Needing to show her what he felt too deeply to say. It did not occur to me you would whine.

We don't mind enemies. We wouldn't know what to do without them.

Anyone who wears a tiara and sequins is always going to be the winner.

In whatever kind of a "race" life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

A terrible thing has now happened to religion. Except in the places where it can still enforce itself by fear superimposed on ignorance, it has become one opinion among many. It is forced to compete in the free market of ideas and, even when it strives to retain the old advantage of inculcating its teachings into children (for reasons that are too obvious to need underlining), it has to stand up in open debate and submit to free inquiry.

There was also the time that competitors were asked to submit a paragraph of a Graham Greene parody: Greene himself entered under a pseudonym and placed third.

Capitalism. Downfall.

In a society in which the dream of success has been drained of any meaning beyond itself, men have nothing against which to measure their achievements except the achievements of others.

Soon a whole guild of low-priced shrine keepers around Europe named their own pope - Boldface the Relatively Shameless, Discount Pope of Prague. The price war was on [...] The Retail Pope would offer cheesy bacon toppings on the Host with communion and the Discount Pope would counter with topless nun night for midnight mass.

I'm feeling full of tiny princes, bustling to get out into the world and start plotting against one another.

Losers can only flourish until a dominant species appears

En efecto, fue un macho beta sumamente habilidoso quien descubrió el fuego, aunque, como era de esperar, un macho alfa se lo arrebatara casi enseguida (los alfa fracasaron en el descubrimiento del fuego, pero, como no entendían que no había que agarrar el palo por el lado caliente y anaranjado, se les atribuye en cambio la invención de la quemadura de tercer grado).

The Beta Male is seldom the strongest or the fastest, but because he can anticipate danger, he far outnumbers his Alpha Male competition. The world is led by Alpha Males, but the machinery of the world turns on the bearings of the Beta Male.

The Beta Male is seldom the strongest or the fastest, but because he can anticipate danger, he far outnumbers his Alpha Male competition. The

Why, I'll bet my uncle Davey could take you out in the first round, ya macaroon.

Hey, Barry, climb off, motherfucker, I'm up next, then it's Jeff's turn. I put it on the board. Blue, don't let him do that to your ear, baby, you won't hear for a month.

Why does everything have to be so hard? [Eragon] wondered. Because , said Saphira, everyone wants to eat, but no one wants to be eaten.

Only men would think of cutting themselves to determine who the packleader is. Idiots.