Quotes About Competition

The city seemed untroubled by the war. Broadway—"the Great White Way," so dubbed for its bright electric lighting—came brilliantly alight and alive each night, as always, although now with unexpected competition. A number of restaurants had begun providing lavish entertainment along with meals, even though they lacked theater licenses. The city was threatening a crackdown on these maverick "cabarets.

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

We have very primative emotions. It's impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though.

It was not brilliant bull-fighting. It was only perfect bull-fighting.

Everything kills everything else in some way.

What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.

Que va," the boy said. "There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only you.

We, in games, are not fascinated by death, its nearness and its avoidance. We are fascinated by victory and we replace the avoidance of death by the avoidance of defeat.

It was like mentioning one general favourably to another general. You could always mention a general, though, that the general you were talking to had beaten. The general you were talking to would praise the beaten general greatly and go happily into detail on how he had beaten him.

No horse named Morbid ever won a race.

If he's just watching, then we're all unwilling participants in the universe's biggest reality show—the original Survivor.

A definition I have found helpful is that envy relates to something you want but do not have, whereas jealousy relates to something you have but are afraid of losing. Therefore, envy is a tango between two people, yet the dance of jealousy requires three. Envy and jealousy are close cousins and often become intertwined.

People punch up," he said. "They punch the ones who are better than them. Nobody likes a kid who does something well. That

Rather than creating more competition, it has created immensely powerful new monopolists like Google and Amazon.

I can't compete with the woman in your head, Cam. I don't even know if she's real.

Nesses estúdios decorria muita colaboração; conta-nos Vasari que quando, certo dia, Leonardo pintou um anjo numa obra de Verrocchio e se saiu melhor que o mestre, Verrocchio desistiu pura e simplesmente do pincel e deixou de pintar. Já fora ultrapassado.

We probably wiped out other human types, we certainly wiped out other mammals; and throughout our history we have, in the intervals between making art and love, tried very hard to wipe out each other. We began, and we remain, agents of instability.

Son zamanlarda, demokrasiler birbirleriyle yar??an siyasi partilerin oy verenlerine daha iyi materyal bir gelecek (daha fazla e?ya) vaat etmeleri üzerine kurulmu?tur, her y?l her nesilde artan materyaller. Ama bilim ve bar?? gezegenin popülasyonunu do?al kaynaklar?n kar??layabilece?inden daha fazla artt?rd??? için bu uzun sürekli bir teklif de?ildir.

This is some next-level Lance Armstrong bionic shit going on.

Reports had long held that Bykov had backed Lebed with funds, hoping for a cozy relationship. But the enmity, the aide said, had run deep from the start. When Lebed arrived in town to assume the governorship, Bykov had come calling. The two had locked themselves in the governor's office, told everyone to go home, taken off their suit coats, and brawled. "They beat the hell out of each other," the aide said. "And the fight continues to this day.

In the summer of 1979 another boyfriend, Adam Russell, completed his language degree at Oxford and decided to spend a year travelling. He left unspoken the fact that he hoped the friendship between himself and Diana could be renewed and developed upon his return. When he arrived home a year later it was too late. A friend told him: "You've only got one rival, the Prince of Wales.

One of the reasons why people come to America is that there are fewer speed bumps to the top of the ladder in comparison with other countries.

Competition among insurers would bring down the cost of health care insurance, just as it brings down the cost of car or homeowners insurance.

Chequers and No. 10 enjoyed surprisingly haphazard security against assassination and terrorism. John Martin recalled that there was a competition in the Foreign Office to see who could get into Downing Street with the least adequate credentials. A railway season ticket and golf club membership card were runners-up, but 'finally the prize went to a man who walked confidently through the entrance holding out a slice of cake.