Quotes About Dominance

Sometimes people need to think of themselves as lions or tigers. Even panthers.

Football is a game with tight results in which you don't need to be the dominant team; if you're a bit lucky and make the right decision at the right time, then you can be as successful as well.

No disrespect to Gronk - Travis Kelce is the best tight end in football.

By the late 1990s Xerox had lost its dominance in photocopiers. Its past success had paralysed it and consigned it to history.

The confidence of the tiger does not try to dominate others. Rather, it conquers our own doubt, enhancing our awake and positive qualities.

Thus in the highest position there is the least freedom of action.

In general, this is what destroys great states: one group wants to overcome the other in any possible way and then to take a bitter vengeance on the defeated.

ubi intenderis ingenium valet; si libido possidet, ea dominatur, animus nihil valet.

People are always busy in trying to manipulate and dominate others!

You're a magician or some kind of weird, witchy woman. I don't know how you do it. You never lose," he said one night, exasperated after I pummeled him game after game. "You're like Wonder Woman or some backgammon superhero. Hey, I've got it—you're Backgammon Girl.

I think Serena Williams is the best tennis player of this generation, if not the best ever. It is amazing for her to be playing as well as she is at the age of 31.

Dullness is so much stronger than genius because there is so much more of it, and it is better organised and more naturally cohesive.

I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession

Power is always gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.

A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone.

There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.

Cultural assertion follows material success; hard power generates soft power.

The attribution of value to a traditional religion," Ronald Dore noted, "is a claim to parity of respect asserted against 'dominant other' nations, and often, simultaneously and more proximately, against a local ruling class which has embraced the values and life-styles of those dominant other nations.

The West is the only civilization which has substantial interests in every other civilization or region and has the ability to affect the politics, economics, and security of every other civilization or region.

Son, this whole town's my personal urinal. Makes me feel like I own it, pissin' all over the fuckin' thing.

The planet has been taken over by testosterone-fuelled madness.

Certainly our market economy places less value on the work of cleaning houses or working in a child-care center than it does on financial management, the practice of medicine, or jobs in manufacturing. To the extent that these latter fields have been understood as male domain, they represent a piece of the male-dominated system that keeps women in subjugated roles.

They felt kind of like dolls, with Ali arranging their every move.

Now you know who bows down to whom. - Emma