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Quotes About Competing

There are very important and practical issues raised by following this alternative route which says, let's look to material conditions, to the systems of production, to the needs that human beings have, and to competing alternative solutions to the satisfaction of those needs.
~ Marvin Harris
When I took over at Everton, the challenge for us was to try to go toe-to-toe with a club having success in Europe and sometimes competing for the Premier League.
~ David Moyes
I'm excited to see Jake Hager debut for Bellator in 2018. When I heard he was seriously interested in competing in MMA, and when you look at what he did at the collegiate level, I was very interested in having him on our roster.
~ Scott Coker
Our mission and task has always been to find a pragmatic balance among competing interests that will serve the greatest common good.
~ Carrie Lam
Sometimes you get into fights if a teammate is getting taken advantage of, sometimes just from competing and you feel someone takes a cheap shot. It's just the intensity. It's an intense game, sometimes you just get too fired up and fights happen.
~ Jarome Iginla
I just enjoy every day, being with my teammates, going out to perform. I just love competing and I have an extreme passion for the sport.
~ Zdeno Chara
Competing absolutisms respect each other more than either respects those who are allergic to absolutes as an absolute principle.
~ Adam Gopnik
Racing, competing, it's in my blood. It's part of me, it's part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.
~ Ayrton Senna
The bottom line is this: in an era of mounting fiscal challenges and competing demands, we must actively seek ways to free up time, money, and manpower to invest back into our top priorities.
~ Mark Esper
My father was one of the first Tae Kwon Do Masters to come to the states in the '60s. He had one of the first all-African-American fighting teams, and I was basically raised in a karate studio since I was 3. It's part of my blood, competing, and all that stuff was responsible for a lot of me just growing up.
~ Will Yun Lee
The two sides projected competing nightmares of what would happen if the other side prevailed.
~ Ron Chernow
Representing Australia has always been a honour and a privilege, and the older and more experienced I get, the more I enjoy it.
~ Cadel Evans
By ideology, Count Antoine Destutt de Tracy meant those ideas drawn from competing political philosophies designed to inspire political loyalties and motivate political action (Lakoff 2011).
~ Donald R. Kinder
Whirlwind's configuration of activities produces a different kind of value with a different cost profile. Looking at competing value chains side by side highlights those differences. If your value chain looks like everyone else's, then you are engaged in competition to be the best.
~ Joan Magretta
I'll be in an institution for paupers, happy in my utter defeat, mixed up with the rabble of would-be geniuses who were no more than beggars with dreams, thrown in with the anonymous throng of those who didn't have strength enough to conquer nor renunciation enough to conquer by not competing.
~ Fernando Pessoa
As far as Alistair goes, he's got a great fan base, he's a great name fighter, and I look forward to competing against him.
~ Travis Browne
The Chattanooga killer was inspired by a foreign terror organization. It's hard to entangle which particular source... there are lots of competing poisons out there.
~ James Comey
The truth, however, is that the conflict between religion and science is unavoidable. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.
~ Sam Harris
It's frustrating in the sense that I still think I could be competing at some sport at a fairly high level, which nobody cares about. Nobody wants to hear me say that.
~ Lance Armstrong
Every newspaper in the country covers stories that other newspapers cover. Every industry is filled with people who are competing to do the best job providing a particular service.
~ Ezra Klein
I welcome Microsoft having a store on Windows; what I've always resisted was a push to close down Windows to competing stores.
~ Tim Sweeney
Winning isn't everything, but playing and competing and striving and going through things can be a lot of fun and really important. As long as you're doing it in a way that's healthy, sports can be an incredible opportunity.
~ Andrew Shue
I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition.
~ Suzanne Farrell
The world, including America, is filled with alternative, competing visions of reality—what is ultimately and "really" real behind what everyone sees every day. These visions of reality are philosophies of life, worldviews, or metaphysical perspectives.
~ Roger E. Olson