Quotes About Competition

No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square.

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.

On the second verse of 'Tears to Snow,' I talk about rappers and the way they view me now, rappers in the underground world who I might've know for a little bit, or they might've opened a show for me. A lot of them talk crap about me behind my back, and they'll smile in my face.

I came second in a 1,500-metre running race at school. I knew I couldn't have come first, so second was my version of first.

You can win a world title now ranked as seven, eight or nine in the world, and say you are a champion, because you have a version of it.

Su niekuo ji nesutikdavo – buvo pernelyg išdidi, kad kovot? d?l pirmos vietos, ir per daug ambicinga, kad pasitenkint? antr?j?.

Deep Blue didn't win by being smarter than a human; it won by being millions of times faster than a human. Deep Blue had no intuition.

Miami drivers have long ago take the simple chore of going from one place to another and turned it into a kind of high-speed, heavily armed game of high-stakes bumper cars.

But the rules are made by people who couldn't win without 'em.

Four hours and forty-two minutes after Knepper began the game by striking out Wilson, the Mets swarmed the field and swallowed Orosco. Mike Scott was named NLCS MVP. New York was going to the World Series. It was time to destroy an airplane.

But game theory only works when the rules are clearly set out ahead of time. In the Nash bargaining game here, neither of the players was aware of another rule presently at work: that what they were bargaining over—me—might be a player in the game too. As

Playing chess or Go or Tigris and Euphrates—a very good game, by the way—I can watch people as they choose their strategy and note how they respond to something I've done. Even

If the rag Daily Herald outsold

But he knew that on the day of a general election, every candidate is convinced he is going to win, even the Liberals. Giles

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our common humanity made it possible to find common cause in the midst of competition and that peace depended on our own virtue and ethical behavior.

The end result of all this consumption is a society running furiously to stay in place. The overwork by each member of society puts a burden (a negative externality) on others, who must also run hard to keep up. Consumers also run because others are running, with everybody finding themselves in a race they'd rather do without. The

The television show from inside the spacecraft would be even worse, with the happy, cocky Americans showing off for their countrymen back home—and showing up the people of Russia.

With the launch of Sputnik 7 in 1957 the Soviet Union had scored the first victory in what would be a three–decade space race. But in the crucial area of photographic reconnaissance satellites, it was the United States that jumped ahead, even if its success was not trumpeted. It was an advantage the United States never relinquished, always remaining ahead in crucial areas of reconnaissance satellite technology.

Life is unfair and there are winners and losers, regardless of how much overprotective parents attempt to shield their offspring from reality.

On the very outside chance that we might play again, you should know that pool is the closest thing I have to a religion. Don't ever throw a game with me again.

It was high school. Evil is kind of the name of the game.

Mas los que comparecieron para la lucha ya no la iniciaron en la pista, sino entre la pista y el altar

If you are Pakistani or Indian you might just as well commit suicide when the team is humiliated; if you're West Indian, you might feel the world has fallen apart when things go wrong at the Oval. But these are countries where cricket is one of the leading suppliers of national pride. In England, you don't support cricket teams, you follow them. It's the game you support, not the team.