Contests Quotes - Page 20

• There is but one pursuit in life which it is in the power of all to follow, and of all to attain. It is subject to no disappointments, since he that perseveres, makes every difficulty an advancement, and every contest a victory; and this is the pursuit of virtue.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Disappointment, Victory, Advancement

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.40

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• We're not encouraging idols other than on the TV show, you know and that's the wrong way to do it. If we had become famous from a contest show we'd be embarrassed in my generation. But if that's the benchmark then I thought well young people who want to be filmmakers, or musicians, or whatever are screwed. But maybe they're not because what they're doing is they're creating their own thing.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Idols, Tv Shows, Creating

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Will you be wanting to contest the divorce?" I asked Mrs. Davis. "I should think not," she said calmly, "although I suppose on of us should, for the fun of the thing. An uncontested divorce always seems to me contrary to the spirit of divorce.

  Donald Barthelme

  Fun, Divorce, Thinking

  Donald Barthelme (1982). “Sixty stories”, Plume

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• He (King Philip) wanted as many Greeks as possible to take part in the festivities in honour of the gods, and so planned brilliant musical contests and lavish banquets for his friends and guests. Out of all Greece he summoned his personal guest-friends and ordered the members of his court to bring along as many as they could of their acquaintances from abroad.

  Diodorus Siculus

  Kings, Greek, Musical

  Histories 16.91.5-6,

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Good advertising is a happy wedding of words and pictures, not a contest between them.

  Leo Burnett

  Advertising

  4 Copy quote

• To know John Kennedy, as I did, was to understand the true meaning of the word. He understood that courage is not something to be gauged in a poll or located in a focus group. No adviser can spin it. No historian can backdate it. For, in the age old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity's approval.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Focus, Age, Approval

  Remarks by President Gerald R. Ford on Receiving the 2001 Profile in Courage Award, www.jfklibrary.org. May 21, 2001.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Love does not dwell on how much one receives in return. If there is ever any balance in love, it is in a contest of who can love who more.

  Criss Jami

  Balance, Doe, Return

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.32, Criss Jami

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A good 80 percent of the vault is still physical and another percentage of it, 20, 25 percent is mental. Mental is always the mental strength, the confidence building up to that contest or repetition, practice, practice, and practice.

  Bela Karolyi

  Building Up, Practice, Vaults

  "Gymnastics Vault Needs 'Speed, Explosive Action'". Interview with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. July 31, 2012.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Playing guitar is not a beauty contest.

  Ernie Isley

  Guitar, Playing Guitar, Beauty Contest

  8 Copy quote

• There is a big risk for the Republicans in a race, especially with Hillary Clinton as a likely Democratic nominee in a contest that will focus on the possibility of the first woman president to be six months suspending up the nomination of a black woman, who is imminently qualified.

  Barack Obama

  Race, Focus, Risk

  Source: www.foxnews.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• In an archery contest, when the stakes are earthenware tiles a contestant shoots with skill. When the stakes are belt buckles he becomes hesitant, and if the stakes are pure gold he becomes nervous and confused. There is no difference as to his skil.

  Zhuangzi

  Confused, Skills, Differences

  21 Copy quote

• Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis best to argue with judgments below our own, that the frequent spoils and victories over their reasons may settle in ourselves an esteem and confirmed opinion of our own.

  Thomas Browne

  Men, Victory, Desire

  1634-5 Religio Medici (published 1643), pt.1, section 6.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The civilities of the great are never thrown away.

  Samuel Johnson

  Political, Campaigns, Civility

  Samuel Johnson (1782). “The Beauties of Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous ... Second Edition, Enlarged and Corrected, Etc”, p.39

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I entered a poem in a poetry contest around 1987, and the poem won and I received $1,000 for it. That made me realize that maybe what I was writing was worth reading to people. After that, for some reason, I turned to novels and I've written mainly novels ever since.

  Sharon Creech

  Reading, Writing, People

  4 Copy quote

• I remember I was so crabby in my third trimester - I got gestational diabetes because I'd been acting like I was in a one-woman pie-eating contest.

  Caroline Rhea

  Pie, Acting, Remember

  4 Copy quote

• Bodybuilding is men on a stage in their underwear wearing brown paint showing other men their muscles. It is training for appearance only, and at the contest level requires a degree of vanity, narcissism, and self-absorption that I find distasteful and odd

  Mark Rippetoe

  Bodybuilding, Men, Vanity

  49 Copy quote

• I never count countries. Travel is not a contest.

  Andrew Evans

  Country, Travel

  4 Copy quote

• Despite the amount of suffering, pain, misery, sorrow and travail which can exist in life, the reason for existence is the same reason as one has to play a game-interest, contest, activity and possession. The truth of this assertion is established by an observation of the elements of games and then applying these elements to life itself.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Pain, Games, Play

  L. Ron Hubbard (1976). “Scientology, a New Slant on Life”, p.99, Bridge Publications, Inc.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• A clean, hard-fought wrestling match is the most honest of athletic contests. There is no technological interventions, no teammates to blame, no panel of judges to bias the score. In wrestling, you compete or you quit. No alibis. I like that

  Dan Gable

  Wrestling, Judging, Athletic

  Gable, Dan (1998). “Coaching Wrestling Successfully”, p.25, Human Kinetics

  177 Copy quote

  Show source

• You are not a leader to win a popularity contest-you are a leader to lead.

  Jack Welch

  Winning, Leader, Popularity

  14 Copy quote

• I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others... An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.... Power is not alluring to pure minds and is not with them the primary principle of contest.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Exercise, Men, Mind

  4 Copy quote

• If you sent me to cover a pie-baking contest on Mother's Day, I'm going to ask dear old Mom why she used artificial sweetener or stole the apples!

  Sam Donaldson

  Mom, Mother, Apples

  7 Copy quote

• The problem is maddening. The thing you seek is so close, you feel you could reach out and touch it. You feel it is your immutable destiny to do so. You have not come this far and at such a cost merely to turn around and go back. There is a solution. Of this you are certain. Now, no longer a game of mass, a game of destiny, it has become, instead a contest of wills. You focus on That Which You Seek as if your gaze alone might bring it closer or narrow the distance between you. Just as it feels as if your mind itself will explode from the strain.

  Dave Sim

  Distance, Destiny, Games

  5 Copy quote

• I must only warn you of one thing. You have become a different person in the course of these years. For this is what the art of archery means: a profound and far-reaching contest of the archer with himself. Perhaps you have hardly noticed it yet, but you will feel it very strongly when you meet your friends and acquaintances again in your own country: things will no longer harmonize as before. You will see with other eyes and measure with other measures. It has happened to me too, and it happens to all who are touched by the spirit of this art.

  Eugen Herrigel

  Country, Art, Archer

  29 Copy quote

• Role-playing games are contests in which the players usually cooperate as a group to achieve a common goal rather than compete to eliminate one another from play.... Role games ... bring players together in a mutual effort.

  Gary Gygax

  Player, Playing Games, Goal

  25 Copy quote