Quotes About Competition

Asher has learned that people have a powerful need to feel superior to others. It doesn't matter who they are – they have to find someone who's beneath them.

It's a tendency to be sybaritic, to live in a state of mild semiconsciousness, to fritter your life away on petty pleasures, to dislike effort and be devoid of any penchant for competition.

It's a tendency to be sybaritic, to live in a state of mild semiconsciousness, to fritter your life away on petty pleasures, to dislike effort and be devoid of any penchant for competition. Long mornings, unopened letters, things put off for later, abandoned projects. A dislike of any authority and a refusal to submit to it, going your own way in a taciturn, idle manner. You could say such people are of no use at all.

all you have to do to become invisible is be a woman of a certain age, without any outstanding features: it is automatic. Not only invisible to men, but also women, who no longer treat her as competition. It is a new and surprising sensation, how people's eyes just sort of float right over her face. They look straight through her, no doubt looking past her at ads and landscapes and schedules.

The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.

In war there is no second prize for the runner-up.

Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us.

The moment you introduce property rights into the equation, everything changes: the starfish organization turns into a spider. If you really want to centralize an organization, hand property rights to the catalyst and tell him to distribute resources as he sees fit. With power over property rights, the catalyst turns into a CEO and circles become competitive.

Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.

Winners hate losing more than changing while others hate changing more than losing.

He's not a killer. He just wins... Thoroughly

I don't care if I pass your test, I don't care if I follow your rules. If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first. - Ender

Ender Wiggin isn't a killer. He just wins—thoroughly.

Humanity? Don't be silly. I know. It is knocking down your fellow-men for the sake of your own happiness.

Can't a man be satisfied without having to beat everybody at everything?

La sociedad. (...) una lucha entre individuos. Y una lucha en que el ganarla lo supone todo. El ser humano no obedece a nadie.

Men are strange creatures. Can't a man be satisfied without having to beat everybody at everything?

That's because he's desperate to have others believe him omnipotent. Pure stupidity! The world's not like that. You've got to bow before someone to get on. That's the only way—struggle ahead one step at a time while keeping the others back.

Haters need to see you go down to lift themselves up.

The top challengers are usually understood, but there are always a few dark horses in the running for every major tournament.

I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.

I am also hugely excited to then be competing to defend my three Paralympic titles at the Paralympic Games. I believe we will see some amazing times posted and I am very much looking forward to what will be an incredible Olympics and Paralympics in London.

Education is...[A process] which makes one rogue cleverer than another.

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.