Quotes About Competition

Courtiers don't take wagers against the king's skill. There is the deadly danger of winning.

Competition only exists in your head, not in the marketplace.

To compete with your reflection, is to have already won long term.

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

strong actors have a lower interest in a fight's outcome because their survival is not at stake, whereas weak actors have a high interest in a fight's outcome because their survival is at stake.

Sexism is clearly not the continuation of patriarchal power relations in modern societies. Rather, it is a hitherto unthinkable individual degradation of one-half of humanity on a socio-biological grounds. The lower prestige assigned by patriarchal societies (of the Mediterranean or of any other type) must therefore be carefully distinguished from the personal degradation of each individual woman who, under the regime of sex, is forced to compete with men.

Homo economicus was surreptitiously taken as the emblem and analogue for all living beings. A mechanistic anthropomorphism has gained currency. Bacteria are imagined to mimic "economic" behavior and to engage in internecine competition for the scarce oxygen available in their environment. A cosmic struggle among ever more complex forms of life has become the anthropic foundational myth of the scientific age.

In America today, there are over 1.1 million nonprofit organizations, and almost all are 501(c)(3)s. There are about 370,000 churches. Just twenty years ago, in 1995, there were 500,000 active 501(c)(3)s and about 370,000 churches. What these numbers show is that in twenty years the competition has nearly doubled. Each year finds the number of nonprofits in America growing.

So that's little Scorpious. Make sure you beat him in every test, Rosie. Thank god you've inherited your mother's brains.

He can run faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo.

Rita looked as though she would have liked nothing better than to seize the paper umbrella sticking out of Hermione's drink and thrust it up her nose.

The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

P.S I love soccer

Your good...real good! But were not gonna lose.

At that point, when she'd been staring down the account-whoring, turbo-bitch's face, she wouldn't have much cared if her head spun around and she'd yarked up pea soup at warp speed all over her. At least it would have matched Linda's new color ranking.

Then I guess this is Donovan versus Davis. See you here tomorrow at six. Don't forget your thong and your flogging thingy.

The goal is not to be better than the other man, but your previous self.

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.

Second Place is just the first place loser.

It's a never ending battle of making your cars better and also trying to be better yourself.

You win some, lose some, and wreck some.

Competition is my life; winning is my only goal

It's no laughing matter when you have to fight with the roaches to see who gets the cornflakes.

They are being driven by a psychopathic Indian apparently bent on killing them all, overtaking on blind rises, racing some other bus to settle an old score, hurtling into corners without slowing down.