Quotes About Elite

I get to live a privileged existence.

Top players are privileged in the chess world.

Our democracies are increasingly captured by a ruling class that seeks to perpetuate its privileges.

Until you win a series, it's difficult to place yourself in that elite group of great Lions players. It's not enough to produce one-off performances or be nearly-men.

A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.

Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.

I don't think we're as divided as many in the elite would have us believe.

While I don't claim to be an expert, I know this: Americans want a government that serves them, not any elite or clique.

It is not a cliche to say golf is for the well-off. It is the reality. But the old system which used to make it elite is fading away.

If you're a talented player, and you're 20 years old, you should be playing in the UEFA Champions League or in the elite European teams like AC Milan, Juventus, or Chelsea.

If I had to identify the one skill set shared by most by the men who become part of the SEAL teams... it would be sheer brainpower.

It is really nice to play in the Champions League, because we play against the best teams and the best competition in Europe.

The big teams are about the Champions League.

In a well-run tech company, small, elite groups who have ownership in the company are given the freedom to define and achieve their tasks in line with a broader mission that they have internalized as their own.

I always thought golf was a game reserved for the rich and the elite... But it's a misconception. It's a highly technical game, and it's a game that you can play and master alone. You require sharp skills for it, and you can play the game alone.

When you are performing at the top level you don't get many chances to go back to basics as you are in elite performance mode. It's hard to break your technique or action down when it always needs to be at a match intensity.

Technological progress becomes even more exciting when it enters into the service of the social idea which demands that not only a small elite but humanity at large should profit by it.

lo que el 95 % de los trabajadores llaman «comportamiento quisquilloso» acerca de un proyecto importante, la élite del 5 % de los creadores saben que no es más que el precio de la admisión en la élite mundial.

Rest is the elite producer's secret weapon. Recovery is not a luxury—it's a necessity and a priority that is beyond important for sustaining world-class productivity over not just years, but decades.

las horas que el 95 % del mundo desperdicia son las que la élite del 5 % atesora. Las 5 de la mañana es la hora en la que las distracciones son menores y en la que la paz y la predisposición son mayores.

Bishops and cardinals were among the very best clients of 'usurers'. That is not surprising since nearly everyone holding an elite Church position had purchased his office as an investment, anticipating a substantial return from Church revenues.

In its 'totalising' vision the left fails to distinguish civil society from the state, and fails to understand that the ends of life arise from our free associations and not from the coercive discipline of an egalitarian elite.

avowed preference for an elite based on merit was misconstrued by enemies into a secret adoration of aristocracy.

elite pedigree on both sides of his family, Jefferson was anything but common. His father, Peter, was a tobacco planter, a judge of the court of chancery, and a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, while his mother, Jane Randolph, came from a prominent family. By the time Peter Jefferson died, he bequeathed to his children more than 60 slaves, 25 horses, 70 head of cattle, 200 hogs, and 7,500 acres; two-thirds of this bountiful legacy went to his eldest son, Thomas.