Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill.
~By Rem Koolhaas ~
I love competition and really going for it and doing my best, but losing isn't really upsetting to me. I feel like if I do lose, the other person really deserved it.
~By Corbin Bleu ~
I have always been vitally interested in physical conditioning. I have long believed that athletic competition among people and nations should replace violence and wars.
~By Johnny Weissmuller ~
Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers. In the United States, we import everything consumers want. So why not pharmaceuticals?
~By Chuck Grassley ~
Today, the forces of competition, technology, and globalization have converged to spur innovation and to transform the way business is done in the securities industry.
~By Arthur Levitt ~
I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.
~By Walt Disney ~
Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes.
~By Nafisa Joseph ~
The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but his practice suffered financially for some years.
~By Anthony Holden ~
We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
~By Vernor Vinge ~
There are 20 million unemployed and what does the Constitution offer us in the Europe of 25, 27 and soon to be 30: policies of unrestricted competition to the detriment of production, wages, research and innovation.
~By Laurent Fabius ~
Today, the competition is considerably more intense.
~By Bobby Rahal ~
But we're all so different, we're different ages; we're not vying for the same roles. There's no competition, there's really kind of a sisterhood, on and off the set, you know?
~By Jeanne Tripplehorn ~
I have no problem with battling for a position. I have no problem trying to beat somebody out. It's a sport, competition, so I'm used to it.
~By Chris Bell ~
In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.
~By Thomas E. Mann ~
Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.
~By Henry Ford ~
The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you get frustrated.
~By Simon Cowell ~
The team which I led to the 1992 European Championship Finals is the only one in the history of the entire competition to have won every single one of its qualifying matches.
~By Michel Patini ~
The limit is not as narrow as it might be. I do not claim for this action, as it now goes on, an ideal degree of efficiency. What I do claim is that this type of competition already reveals its nature and its ultimate power to hold seeming monopolies in check.
~By John Bates Clark ~
So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.
~By William Morris ~
With competition everyone has to try harder.
~By Harold H. Greene ~
The only thing that's changed is the competitiveness of the series. It's only become harder to win in our series as the years have gone by. Competition breeds good things, and that's what's happened here.
~By Al Unser ~
Value is consequently the necessary theoretical starting point whence we can elucidate the peculiar phenomenon of prices resulting from capitalist competition.
~By Rudolf Hiferding ~
During such a competition players are there for a long time as well as all the people around them. They need to train, to eat, to go out. There ought to be something in it for everyone. On that particular point, my experience has been a bonus.
~By Michel Patini ~
You have to compete with others in the field. Sometimes the competition gets pretty fierce because you're competing for funds or grants to do your work, the financial work.
~By Clyde Tombaugh ~
I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that.
~By Walter Cronkite ~
The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades.
~By John P. Kotter ~
It's not rage that drives me, it's competition.
~By Lennox Lewis ~
Well, it's still another two-day competition, so it's really important to show that you're ready. Every meet is really important right now. You've got to keep showing you can hit.
~By Carly Patterson ~
Good will is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.
~By Marshall Field ~
Without competition, the spectacular development of technology that we have seen in the last one hundred years in this country would not have happened.
~By Lee R. Raymond ~
For me, half the joy of achieving has been the struggle and the fight, the pitting myself against the world and all its competition - and winning.
~By Conrad Veidt ~
I think the touchstone is to give consumers a full, fair choice without the power of a monopoly operating system pushing them in a direction that free competition might or might not achieve.
~By Jim Barksdale ~
I'm a free market person, a free trader. But if we had a market in California, there would be competition.
~By Anna Eshoo ~
If I read not amiss, this powerful race will move down upon Mexico, down upon Central and South America, out upon the islands of the sea, over upon Africa and beyond. And can any one doubt that the results of this competition of races will be the "survival of the fittest?"
~By Josiah Strong ~
Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.
~By LaToya London ~
Reality is a genre that seems to be here to stay. I don't know how many of the new shows will last, but the more competition you have, the harder that pie is to slice up.
~By Jeff Probst ~
We got to know the competition very well. In the '50s popcorn made a big growth in sales. Our main push was to produce the best quality and sell in quality retail outlets.
~By Orville Redenbacher ~
So the programs all start to all look the same. I watched one free skating competition, and I thought I was watching a short program. Everyone was doing exactly the same elements.
~By Brian Boitano ~
Because up to sixteen years old you feel gymnastics more. You can show your emotion, grace, like woman gymnastics, not kid's gymnastics. I feel I have good shape, and I can do it elements everything, but, it's not competition for me.
~By Olga Korbut ~
The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.
~By Avery Brundage ~
I went to national piano competitions and did that whole circuit. Then I played professionally to support myself when I moved out to LA.
~By Alicia Witt ~
I dig all kinds of competition.
~By Randy Castillo ~
I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
~By Fidel Castro ~
The time has come for the American government to recognize the damage that has occurred to our economy, and to take firm action to curtail what I believe is both unfair and illegal foreign competition.
~By Norm Dicks ~
Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy.
~By John Ralston Saul ~
By overhauling current rules and speeding the entry of competitors in the market, we encourage competition and provide our constituents with new choices and cheaper bills.
~By Melissa Bean ~
Whenever the competition is sleeping is when I shine.
~By Kim Collins ~
Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people.
~By David Sarnoff ~
Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
~By Jesse Owens ~
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition.
~By Suzanne Farrell ~
In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition.
~By Helmut Jahn ~
Common sense tells us that this explosion of media sources should eliminate any concern over a lack of diversity of views in the marketplace and competition.
~By Fred Upton ~
I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location.
~By John Forbes Nash, Jr. ~
Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.
~By Fred Allen ~
Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.
~By Herbert Hoover ~
We see ourselves as first helping to open up markets to competition.
~By Kenneth Lay ~
Anytime you have a difficult encounter with your child, there is a good chance that at least one of these factors is bringing out the worst in him or her: transitions, time pressure, competition for your attention, conflicting objectives.
~By Cathy Rindner Tempelsman ~
Just as predatory animals follow a similar general design and behave in similar ways, so organizations, especially those in competition with one another, must follow certain design principles if they are to succeed and prevail.
~By Robert Shea ~
I don't see myself as competing with other actresses. I mean, I went through a time when I was in New York, and I was going to lots of auditions and trying to get parts, but even then, you're not really competing with the other actresses. There is a competition going on, but it's not like something you can win in that way.
~By Annette Bening ~
Activity in politics also produces eager competition and sharp rivalry.
~By John George Nicolay ~
That's what really makes great skating competitions. When you have two top skaters in good form giving superb performances.
~By Dick Button ~
As a Republican, I am all for competition.
~By Michael Burgess ~
At the very least we should be given a bit of credit and a little bit of space, and maybe the media should think we could help them discover why English teams do not win European competitions.
~By Jose Mourinho ~
America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
~By Barack Obama ~
Hence we did not foster competition in our school, on the contrary.
~By Dora Russell ~
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
I think I tried to separate indoors and out. And so when he beat me indoors, I did not see that as letting anybody down, I saw it as a good head to head competition, and so it was. It was fine.
~By Ralph Boston ~
So I had the opportunity to do what the kids in the Hershey program do, except that the Hershey program lets them do it on such a larger scale, with the regional and national competitions.
~By Rafer Johnson ~
There's always competition out there. That's what makes life exciting.
~By Carolyn Murphy ~
The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way.
~By Richard Stallman ~
A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.
~By James Cash Penney ~
I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?
~By Cate Blanchett ~
I don't try to be a threat to MicroSoft, mainly because I don't really see MS as competition. Especially not Windows-the goals of Linux and Windows are simply so different.
~By Linus Torvalds ~
The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears.
~By Phil McGraw ~
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.
~By Indira Gandhi ~
The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.
~By Colin Powell ~
Our role is to maintain and monitor a framework in which fair competition can flourish.
~By Arthur Levitt ~
You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting.
~By Ed Harris ~
I started singing at the Met when I was seven, and the competition was so fierce that it really prepared me.
~By Emily Rossum ~
Of course, most people remember that I received the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics competition.
~By Nadia Comaneci ~
The pressure people put on themselves and the rivalry between the teams is much more marked. And I think that's a good thing. As long as that rivalry remains within the spirit of competition, it con only spur everyone on.
~By Eric Cantona ~
When we say that the persistence of competition is ensured by fate, we mean that individual freedom is so guaranteed. The one thing to which fate binds us is liberty.
~By John Bates Clark ~
No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style.
~By Jim Henson ~
The Olympic Games is the ultimate level of competition.
~By Russell Mark ~
The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled.
~By Josiah Strong ~
The kind of society which we still have is maybe, in some cases, getting worse. Competition is becoming a virtue. Intense competition drives people to go more and more into self-interest. Even to see other folks as competition.
~By Major Owens ~
I started singing about three years ago, I entered a local singing competition called Stratford Idol. The other people in the competition had been taking singing lessons and had vocal coaches. I wasn't taking it too seriously at the time, I would just sing around the house. I was only 12 and I got second place.
~By Justin Bieber ~
Then I received support from the Government to compete for my country, and to represent Cuba in competition.
~By Alberto Juantorena ~
First off, it's wonderful how much people are supporting me and felt I should have stayed in the competition.
~By LaToya London ~
Indeed, we must foster cost-saving competition. And that means joining the marketplace of other industrialized countries - not just for the manufacturers who sell drugs, but for consumers as well.
~By Olympia Snowe ~
There is plenty of competition in a Glasser Quality School in that there is winning but no losing.
~By William Glasser ~
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
~By Andrew Carnegie ~
Global competition is about winners and losers.
~By David Korten ~
I've always considered making it legal for Americans to import their prescription drugs a free-trade issue. Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers.
~By Chuck Grassley ~
Competition is good and has served us well.
~By Harold H. Greene ~
Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.
~By George Reisman ~
After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson's bold vision for westward expansion for America.
~By Russ Carnahan ~
Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. Blood doesn't run in races! Come on!
~By Beah Richards ~
As soon, however, as capitalist competition has definitively established the equal rate of profit, that rate becomes the starting point for the calculations of the capitalists in the investment of capital in newly-created branches of production.
~By Rudolf Hiferding ~
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