Quotes About Competition

were ready to lose with fire and fury. They were not ready to win.

Trump simply could not abide the knowledge that somebody was getting a leg up at his expense. His was a zero-sum ecosystem. In the world of Trump, anything that he deemed of value either accrued to him or had been robbed from him.

In politics somebody has to lose, but invariably everybody thinks they can win. And you probably can't win unless you believe that you will win - except for the Trump campaign.

Il n'y a pas beaucoup à gagner dans ce monde

The putting to death of morality had, on the whole, become a sort of ritual sacrifice necessary for the reassertion of the dominant values of the group—centered for some decades now on competition, innovation, and energy, more than on fidelity and duty.

You must participate in competition, in struggle, in the life of the world. If you stop, you no longer exist. If you fall behind, you're dead.' Denying any notion of eternity, defining itself as a process of permanent renewal, advertising aims to vaporize human subjects, to transform them into obedient phantoms of becoming. And this skin-deep, superficial participation in the life of the world is supposed to take the place of the desire for being.

aunque fuese cada vez más patente que habían perdido la partida imprudentemente entablada con los chinos, los americanos quizá tenían aún algo que decirnos, al fin y al cabo habían dominado el mundo durante cerca de un siglo, debían de haber adquirido cierta sabiduría, de lo contrario era para desesperarse.

There is a graceless human tendency to wish upon others the ills visited upon oneself. Instead of pointing successors towards short cuts, you relish seeing them clambering through identical hoops.

I'm going to do what you did," it ran, "only I'm going to do it quicker, better and for more money. Because I'm me.

I like playing defense, but sometimes I think it might be fun to score the goals. It would be nice to be the good guy for a change.

So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear: There is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.

Choas errupted amoung the watchers. They didn't think it was over at all. "He cheated! He used fire!" "No, he won fairly enough!"

Tot zijn verbazing schoot Renn een pijl af, en even later plofte een sneeuwhoen op het mos neer. Toraks mond viel open. 'Hoe deed je dat?' Renn bloosde. 'Nou ja, ik oefen veel.' 'Maar... Ik heb nog nooit iemand zo goed zien schieten. Ben je de beste schutter van je stam?' Ze keek niet erg op haar gemak. 'Is er iemand die beter is?' 'Eh, niet echt.

Everybody wants to do whatever they can go give their kids an edge, even if it is ridiculous.

British climbers were driven as much by the fear of shame as they were by the lure of fame and glory. 4

Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said "sure, every time".

Show me a man with a million dollars, and I'll show you a million guys trying to take it away from him.

He did not perceive his father nor his brothers to be any competition regarding the attention he received from the two females in his life. Therefore, as an adult Mhlengwa did not consider any male as competition.

All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men.

Competition is enjoyable only when it is a means to perfect one's skills; when it becomes an end in itself, it ceases to be fun.

The roots of the word "compete" are the Latin con petire, which meant "to seek together.

In our studies, we found that every flow activity, whether it involved competition, chance, or any other dimension of experience, had this in common: It provided a sense of discovery, a creative feeling of transporting the person into a new reality. It pushed the person to higher levels of performance, and led to previously undreamed-of states of consciousness. In short, it transformed the self by making it more complex. In

Using this scheme, it can be said that games offer opportunities to go beyond the boundaries of ordinary experience in four different ways. In agonistic games, the participant must stretch her skills to meet the challenge provided by the skills of the opponents. The roots of the word "compete" are the Latin con petire, which meant "to seek together." What each person seeks is to actualize her potential, and this task is made easier when others force us to do our best.

In many ways, competition is a quick way of developing complexity: "He who wrestles with us," wrote Edmund Burke, "strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.