Quotes About Competition

There is no doubt about precisely when folks began racing each other in automobiles. It was the day they built the second automobile.

As in combat, the key to this game was to get inside your opponent's decision cycle, making him react to what you were doing, rather than the reverse.

The ego hates losing – even to God.

Above all, those with a strategic sense argued that the US had to challenge Russia over Ukraine as a warning to China over its possible ambitions in the South China Sea and Taiwan.

God says, Which one of you fuckers can get to me first?

Put bluntly, professionals tend not to like sharing what they know with other professionals.

Watson Doesn't Know It Won on "Jeopardy!

We get into fights or lust for imperial dominion over another nation for reasons of pride.

Human competitiveness still has elements of the primate system of achieving status by individual combat.

In societies with no restaurants or supermarkets, the need for a wife can lead a man to desperate measures. Among the Inuit, where a woman contributed no food calories, her cooking and production of warm, dry hunting clothes were vital: a man cannot both hunt and cook. The pressure could drive widowers or bachelors to neighboring territories in an attempt to steal a woman, even if it meant killing her husband.

The proposal that the human household originated in competition over food presents a challenge to conventional thinking because it holds economics as primary and sexual relations as secondary.

American exports reduced the cost of food in Europe faster than at any time since the Neolithic era. European peasants could not compete with cheap American grain and meat. Forced off the land, many of them immigrated to the United States. Some became American farmers; more became American workers.16

Checkmate, bitch.

That's pretty hot," he said. "Punching me in the eye?" "Well, no. Of course not. I meant the idea of getting rough with you is hot. I'm a big fan of full-contact sports." "I'm sure you are.

You were wrong. She really is the new general in town." I smiled back, hoping he wasn't aware of my body's reaction to us standing so close. "Maybe. But, it's okay. You can still be colonel." He arched an eyebrow. "Oh? Did you demote yourself? Colonel's right below general. What's that make you?" I reached into my pocket and triumphantly flashed the CR-V keys I'd swiped when we'd come back inside. "The driver," I said.

We all stared at the scoreboard in stunned silence. Only Carter was able to get anything out. "That," he told Robert exuberantly, "is how a bird in the hand gets up before the early worm." "That doesn't make any sense," said Roger. Carter pointed at the scoreboard. "Neither does that, but there you have it.

A man can never compete with a woman's father

Oh, I thought. It's on, bitch!

History's like that. There are wars, and unfortunately, in the end, who wins and who loses is more important than who's right or wrong.

You must not have played chess in a while. The king is the weakest piece in the game." He gave Justin a level look. "The queen's the strongest.

What's your sport?" Trey held his chin up, looking very pleased with himself. "Football. A real man's sport.

Don't be envious of the runner in the lane next to you; just focus on finishing your race.

there can't be two geniuses in the same bed.

hypercompetition" to characterize markets in which a firm's competitive advantage would be quickly competed away.8