Quotes About Competition

When under attack, our heart can take a similarly sudden and unconscious turn. When faced with pressure and strong opinions, we often stop worrying about the goal of adding to the pool of meaning and start looking for ways to win, punish, or keep the peace. Winning

They're not people at all, they're graduate students, there's a difference. They fuck like bunnies and drink like fish and stay up late worrying that somebody somewhere is getting something that they're not getting. - Erika Jones

I wasn't destined for greatness; I knew this. But I was figuring out how to steal it from someone stupid enough to relax their grip on it.

But coming close wasn't the same as winning, was it? ... He had won because winners won and everyone else just went home

I didn't know what the other guy was playing for, maybe just bragging rights. But this was my one chance to become someone who was looked at, not seen, listened to, not heard.

Bagi para pengejar layang-layang, hadiah yang paling berharga adalah layang-layang yang terjatuh paling akhir dalam sebuah turnamen musim dingin. Itulah trofi kehormatan yang diperebutkan, sesuatu yang bisa dipajang untuk dikagumi para tamu.

The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what the Russians would eventually learn by the late 1980s: that Afghans are an independent people. Afghans cherish custom but abhor rules. And so it was with kite fighting. The rules were simple: No rules. Fly your kite. Cut the opponents. Good luck.

A l'école, nous jouions à un jeu appelé sherganji, la bataille des poèmes.

Dia menang, karena pemenang selalu menang dan semua orang lain harus pulang.

But Laila knew that her future was no match for her brothers' past. They had overshadowed her in life. They would obliterate her in death.

Tapi hampir menang tidaklah sama dengan menang, bukan?

Campionatul de vân?toare de zmeie era un vechi obicei de iarn? în Afganistan. Începea dimineaÈ›a devreme È™i nu se termina pân? când pe cer nu mai r?mânea, plutind, decât zmeul câÈ™tig?tor.

În curând începu t?ierea È™i primul zmeu înfrânt, sc?pat de sub control, se pr?buÈ™i într-un vârtej. C?deau din cer ca stelele c?z?toare, cu cozile lor lungi, scânteietoare, pres?rând cartierele de dedesubt cu daruri pentru competitorii r?maÈ™i, fiindc? erau ele însele mult-râvnitele trofee.

The mistress and her servant - you two are sharing the same man, aren't you? Don't lie to this old woman, some gigolo must have grabbed both of you like a pair of chopsticks.

Jake's POV: Meanwhile, Ally was here with Marshall Moss, who she was obviously going to hook up with later. They'd barely stopped touching each other all night. Even now, they were out in the middle of the dance floor dancing to some Black Eyed Peas song. No reason to be touching for a fast song, but they were. Holding hands while they bounced around with friends. She looked happy. Which made me want to punch someone. Preferably Marshall Moss.

I'd never seen a man who could outshop me, but Jenks was a master.

You want to play the winner?" I called out to Ivy, lounging on a chair with her back to the wall as she pretended to read a magazine and watch us without being obvious about it. She'd put herself right in the sun, which told me she'd had a rough morning. She sat in the sun only when she was frustrated.

Vampires and five-year-olds played by the same rules, and both threw tantrums when they lost.

They played chess and Frank won. John laughed. How stupid, he said. What do you mean? Games don't mean anything. Are you sure? Sometimes life seems like a kind of game to me. John shook his head. In games there are rules, but in life the rules keep changing. You could put your bishop out there to mate the other guy's king, and he could lean down and whisper in your bishop's ear, and suddenly it's playing for him, and moving like a rook. And you're fucked.

The urge to excel and the urge to lead aren't the same. Sometimes I think they may be opposites.

The urge to excel and the urge to lead aren't the same. Sometimes I think they may be opposites.

Survival of the fittest, which Sax had always considered a useless tautology. But if social Darwinists were taking over, then maybe the concept gained importance, as a religious dogma of the ruling order....

the way like-minded people working to solve the same problem will engage in continuous civil war with each other over methods, thus destroying their chances of success.

Wherever there's a commons there's enclosure. And enclosure always wins.