We need to be aware of all aspects: To check how they travel, how they eat, the competition conditions.
~By Alberto Juantorena ~
In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition.
~By Helmut Jahn ~
A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.
~By Frank Shorter ~
Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition.
~By T-Bone Burnett ~
No matter what the competition is, I try to find a goal that day and better that goal.
~By Bonnie Blair ~
I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school.
~By Alberto Salazar ~
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
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 ~
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 ~
But my middle daughter, Kate, is very involved in martial arts, and I was just at one of her competitions.
~By Meredith Baxter ~
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 ~
Unless a player goes in for intensive play and tournament competition, two racquets are sufficient.
~By Helen Wills Moody ~
Like getting into a bleeding competition with a blood bank.
~By Richard Branson ~
They gave me away as a prize once - a Win Tony Curtis For A Weekend competition. The woman who won was disappointed. She'd hoped for second prize - a new stove.
~By Tony Curtis ~
The tension between centrality, on the one hand, and competition, on the other, is probably the oldest of all market structure issues.
~By Arthur Levitt ~
I think competition is very important; it breeds many good things in a person.
~By Brian McBride ~
We had a great group of guys when I was there, five of us, I think. It's a great competition. Every practice was hard. I think that's helped us a lot, everybody that was there.
~By Peter Forsberg ~
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 ~
The whole competition thing disturbs me. Not that I wasn't a part of it when I first started.
~By George Murray ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
~By Fulton J. Sheen ~
Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.
~By Herbert Hoover ~
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 ~
Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.
~By Sam Donaldson ~
I make appearance at local park and recreation agencies when the program starts, when they have the qualifying meets at the local levels. Then I try to go to the regional competitions, and of course I'm there in Hershey, Pa., in August for the North American final.
~By Rafer Johnson ~
I don't see women and think of them as competition or with judgment. Women really move me. I feel connected to all kinds of women. I am angry because I think we've been mistreated throughout history in different countries, including America. I admire women.
~By Salma Hayek ~
I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing.
~By Roger Waters ~
Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
~By Jesse Owens ~
The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies.
~By Francis Wright ~
From the fall of October, 1980 to March, 1984 I never lost a competition.
~By Scott Hamilton ~
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 ~
Whereas there's a wealth of galleries in Australia, everyone's got a gallery in Australia or wants your work. Because the art scene is smaller in Indonesia, there's not so much competition.
~By Andrew Jack ~
All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism.
~By Edward Bond ~
Most other competitions are individual achievements, but the Olympic Games is something that belongs to everybody.
~By Scott Hamilton ~
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 ~
Our government needs to adopt a pro-market agenda that doesn't pick winners and losers, but it invites competition and it levels the playing field for everyone.
~By Sarah Palin ~
Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people.
~By David Sarnoff ~
In the tail above the giant resonance, you can get not just one neutron emitted but two, three, four or five, and so there are a lot of things one can measure, looking at the competition with the emission of neutrons and protons and so on.
~By John Henry Carver ~
I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.
~By Peggy Fleming ~
There's always competition out there. That's what makes life exciting.
~By Carolyn Murphy ~
I don't think that the Pulitzer should be given the way it is. I think the competition should be anonymous. I think completely different people would win it if the names were taken off because a lot of it is done on relationships and names.
~By John Corigliano ~
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 ~
Running became boring because it's so predictable. I got to a point where I knew what my competition could do.
~By Peter Snell ~
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 ~
I started singing at the Met when I was seven, and the competition was so fierce that it really prepared me.
~By Emily Rossum ~
You may call me a Klansman if you will, but, potentially, every white man is a Klansman, as far as the Negro in competition with whites socially, economically and politically is concerned, and there is no use lying.
~By Marcus Garvey ~
I'm a great believer in the competitive system, and think that competition will bring us greater innovation and put American industry in information ahead of everyone also.
~By Harold H. Greene ~
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 ~
At Leeds the idea of an international labour organization appeared in a trade-union text which also drew attention to the danger to the working classes inherent in the existence of international capitalist competition.
~By Leon Jouhaux ~
The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist.
~By George Stigler ~
Competition is good and has served us well.
~By Harold H. Greene ~
I think in terms of family, in terms of relationships, in terms of work, competition to be the favorite, to be the noticed, to be the one - I don't know if it exists for all personalities, but I know for sure it did with me.
~By Marcia Gay Harden ~
Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I'm going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again.
~By Jerome Lawrence ~
Research your idea. See if there's a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don't know if there's a need for it. You also have to research your competition.
~By Magic Johnson ~
I believe in competition.
~By Craig Benson ~
Athletic competition clearly defines the unique power of our attitude.
~By Bart Starr ~
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 ~
I find very often that very ugly women have really handsome men and vice versa because they don't have any competition. Sometimes handsome men have avoided me.
~By Hedy Lamarr ~
Murdoch paid too much for the Wall Street Journal even when he didn't have any competition.
~By Sumner Redstone ~
The stark reality facing us today is that without the labour reforms, workers will get neither the income nor jobs in the face of cut-throat global economic competition.
~By Kim Y. Sam ~
Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.
~By Henry Ford ~
I never dislike anyone that I am in competition with. I welcome the challenge. Besides, I get along with just about everyone.
~By Dante Hall ~
I don't think about goals and records. Competition is what keeps me playing.
~By Lou Brock ~
Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.
~By Lamar S. Smith ~
Time will tell how you rate against the rest of the competition. I'll let everyone else worry about championships. I'm going to worry about qualifying at Pomona.
~By Larry Dixon ~
I think we all have had better days in competition.
~By Carly Patterson ~
We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair.
~By Xavier Becerra ~
The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
~By Thomas Hobbes ~
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 ~
Good will is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.
~By Marshall Field ~
Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.
~By Ludwig Borne ~
Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill.
~By Rem Koolhaas ~
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 truly don't know why the boys are getting all the votes - it could be because they are really amazing, and that's all there is to it. They're really, really good and every single boy deserves to be in the competition right now, and so do the two girls.
~By Pia Toscano ~
The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
~By Washington Allston ~
So the competition isn't once you got the license, running the station; it's getting the license.
~By Robert McChesney ~
No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style.
~By Jim Henson ~
I want to be the first lady to land a quadruple jump in competition. As I grow older, I know that my skating style will develop and mature.
~By Sasha Cohen ~
With competition everyone has to try harder.
~By Harold H. Greene ~
The professionalism of wire service reporters is constantly being tested because reporters know that if they're late or sloppy on a story, it will show up because the competition is likely to be not late and not sloppy.
~By Bob Greene ~
I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.
~By Edna O'Brien ~
Now a movie goes out to two, three thousand theaters and by Friday night at 10 o'clock they know if you are in or out. That desperate competition is, I think, horrendous. It's awful.
~By Mark Rydell ~
They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers.
~By Frederic Bastiat ~
Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.
~By Marshall Field ~
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 ~
All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.
~By Marquis de Sade ~
Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.
~By Major Owens ~
Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force you to accept a rate of return less than you hoped for, or for that matter to accept temporary losses.
~By Alfred P. Sloan ~
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
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 ~
Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
I kinda see everyone as competition. I'm a very competitive person. But I think that's good. Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool.
~By Janet Jackson ~
The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.
~By Rutherford B. Hayes ~
My main point in this regard was to compete for my country and my people and to receive the support of the entire Cuban society, to carry my flag in whatever competition I was in, the Olympic Games, Pan-American Games.
~By Alberto Juantorena ~
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 ~
Whenever the competition is sleeping is when I shine.
~By Kim Collins ~
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 ~
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 ~
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