Competing Quotes - Page 22

• There's no New York rapper who's out that is competing with me because first of all, I'm the best.

  Fabolous

  New York, Rapper, Firsts

  Source: www.complex.com

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• Nothing is more difficult than competing with a myth

  Francoise Giroud

  Difficult, Myth

  Françoise Giroud, Claude Glayman (1974). “I Give You My Word”

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• The essence and the glory of the free market is that individual firms and businesses, competing on the market, provide an ever-changing orchestration of efficient and progressive goods and services: continually improving products and markets, advancing technology, cutting costs, and meeting changing consumer demands as swiftly and as efficiently as possible.

  Murray Rothbard

  Cutting, Technology, Essence

  Murray Newton Rothbard (1978). “For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto”, p.242, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• You can spend your life competing in a world that talks too loud / You can lose your own direction getting lost among the crowd / Confusion - is it any wonder that the road ahead's not clear / Well you can try too hard to find it now I realise it's here

  Kim Wilde

  Confusion, Trying, World

  Song: It's Here, Album: Love Moves

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• The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology.

  J. G. Ballard

  Reason, Driven, Psychopathology

  "J.G. Ballard Quotes: Does the Future Have a Future?". Book edited by V. Vale and Mike Ryan, 2004.

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• It has been our experience that women usually prefer thin, undernourished, flatchested females, dressed to the teeth, as a concept of "feminine beauty" -- and that men prefer exactly the opposite: voluptuous, well-rounded and undressed. The women's idealization of woman is actually a male counterpart, competing with man in society; man's view of women is far more truly feminine.

  Hugh Hefner

  Women, Views, Feminine Beauty

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• Where jargon turns living issues into abstractions, and where jargon ends by competing with jargon, people don't have causes. They only have enemies.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Issues, People, Enemy

  V. S. Naipaul (2012). “Literary Occasions: Essays”, p.201, Pan Macmillan

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• When we look to presumed sources of origin for competing evolutionary explanations of the giraffe's long neck, we find either nothing at all, or only the shortest of speculative conjectures. Length, of course, need not correspond with importance. Garrulous old Polonius , in a rare moment of clarity, reminded us that "brevity is the soul of wit" (and then immediately vitiated his wise observation with a flood of woolly words about Hamlet 's Madness.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Wise, Long, Soul

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• Who can guarantee that he [Alexander Milinkevich, a Belarussian opposition presidential candidate] is the most promising candidate capable of competing with the incumbent president?

  Alexander Lukashenko

  Guarantees That, Presidential, Candidates

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• It's just fun to go out and compete. It doesn't matter what your record is or what the other team's record is. You're playing in an NFL game, and you are out there competing with great players.

  Jamie Martin

  Fun, Team, Player

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• To be completely honest, I didn't want to compete with myself. I wanted to reinvent myself. This seemed like the perfect way to step back in without competing with what I've already done, because I can't win that battle.

  Marta Kauffman

  Winning, Perfect, Battle

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• There is a sense of competition in Zen. You are competing with your thoughts and trying to overcome them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Competition, Trying, Overcoming

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• I think the first thing that you need to detach yourself from is numbers, because music has now splintered off into so many different forms of media, MTV doesn't play videos, the radio is now competing with the Internet.

  Adam Levine

  Thinking, Numbers, Media

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The theory of Zen is non-competition. But that is not really true at all. People who practice Zen are very competitive. They are competing against emptiness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Practice, People, Competition

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• A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms.

  Zenkei Shibayama

  Flower, Thinking, Doe

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• I don't even need to do anything; I am always amped to skate. Always amped to be competing. I love competing - that's what I do. Any contest, it doesn't really take much. Just get me on the course and I'll get going.

  Ryan Sheckler

  Needs, Contests, Courses

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• Some people steal from others, or defraud them, or enslave them, seizing their product and preventing them from living as they choose, or forcibly exclude others from competing in exchanges. None of these are permissible modes of transition from one situation to another.

  Robert Nozick

  People, Transition, Stealing

  Robert Nozick (1974). “Anarchy, state, and utopia”

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• One night, I was lying in bed, and I was channel surfing between reality TV programs and actual war coverage. On one channel, there's a group of young people competing for I don't even know; and on the next, there's a group of young people fighting in an actual war. I was really tired, and the lines between these stories started to blur in a very unsettling way. That's the moment when Katniss's story came to me.

  Suzanne Collins

  War, Lying, Tired

  "A Killer Story: An Interview with Suzanne Collins, Author of ‘The Hunger Games’ | Under Cover". Interview with Rick Margolis, www.slj.com. September 1, 2008.

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• As a cultural form, database represents the world as a list of items and it refuses to order this list. In contrast, a narrative creates a cause-and-effect trajectory of seemingly unordered items (events). Therefore, database and narrative are natural enemies. Competing for the same territory of human culture, each claims an exclusive right to make meaning out of the world.

  Lev Manovich

  Order, Enemy, Events

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• Prayer is looking out from a different set of eyes, which are not comparing, competing, judging, labeling or analyzing, but receiving the moment in its present wholeness and unwholeness. That is what is meant by contemplation.

  Richard Rohr

  Prayer, Eye, Judging

  "Richard Rohr on Praying like St. Francis". St. Anthony Messenger interview, www.franciscanmedia.org.

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• I think the great Mexican cuisine is dying because there are fast foods now competing, because there are supermarkets, and supermarkets can't afford to keep in stock a lot of these very perishable products that are used for fine Mexican cooking. Women are working and real Mexican cooking requires enormous amounts of time.

  Alma Guillermoprieto

  Real, Food, Thinking

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• Set higher standards for you own performance than anyone around you, and it won't matter whether you have a tough boss or an easy one. It won't matter whether the competition is pushing you hard, because you'll be competing with yourself.

  Rick Pitino

  Boss, Competition, Matter

  Rick Pitino (1997). “Success is a Choice: Ten Steps to Overachieving in Business and Life”, Broadway

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• As Walt Whitman correctly surmised, we are large and we harbor multitudes within us. And those multitudes are locked in chronic battle. There is an ongoing conversation among the different factions in your brain, each competing to control the single output channel of your behavior. As a result, you can accomplish the strange feats of arguing with yourself, cursing at yourself, and cajoling yourself to do something - feats that modern computers simply do not do.

  David Eagleman

  Brain, Battle, Different

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• The Bible gives no hint that a Christian "belief system" might be isolated from the life of the Church, subjected to scientific analysis, and have its truth compared with competing "belief systems".

  Peter Leithart

  Christian, Giving, Church

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• So . . . I feel in regard to this aged England . . . pressed upon by transitions of trade and . . . competing populations,-I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well remembering that she has seen dark days before;-indeed, with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day, and that, in storm of battle and calamity, she has a secret vigor and a pulse like a cannon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kindness, Dark, Secret

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