Competing Quotes

The principle is competing against yourself.

I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well

Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.

I think every album you have, especially if it's done well, you feel like you're competing with yourself.

Olympic athletes have to find a job right after they're done competing.

I have been truly blessed with the ability to compartmentalize the many competing agendas in my mind. Because of this I can shut it off and enjoy the moment.

A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.

Nothing is more difficult than competing with a myth

I'm not competing with anyone, or begging someone to love me. I feel like I'm loved and I deserve to be where I am.

I'll quit competing when my heart quits beating

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".

What does the name Virgin mean? We are a company that likes to take on the giants. In too many businesses, these giants have had things their own way. We are going to have fun competing with them.

Whenever the C++ language designers had two competing ideas as to how they should solve some problem, they said, "OK, we'll do them both". So the language is too baroque for my taste.

Industrialism is the religion with 'the machine' as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects.

I loved competing and winning and also wanted to continue my career for the fans, knowing they were there for me and enjoyed watching me fight.

This use of advertising - to add a subjective value to the product - becomes increasingly important as the trends in our technology lead to competing products becoming more and more the same.

There is no point in competing with young talent...I just concentrate on getting better each day.

When I was much younger and still competing in gymnastics, I could rarely find inspiration outside of the sport.

We are going to sign a treaty with Mexico. We are competing internationally. We need another international airport for international cargo, international travel, international businesses.

Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests.

I just like to play anything that's competitive. If I'm not competing against somebody, then I might as well play something I can enjoy.

My dad always told me to play hard and know that the people you're competing with and against are working just as hard or harder. So don't let them out-work you.

Until we do something about wild dogs, kangaroos competing for pasture, your fortunes in life aren't gonna turn around.

In L.A., everyone is competing for the next job, and in New York, it's pretty much the same thing: competing for a better job.

Having loved sport my whole life, competing in a Paralympics would be a dream come true.

I wanted the challenge of competing against the best players in the world.

When I started competing, you had to have your coach there. Now you can be coached from a home office via Skype or video. That's not the same as having them on the field with you.

Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal

Pragmatism is the disguise progressive and other ideologues do when they want to demonize competing ideologies.

Once open source gets good enough, competing with it would be insane.

I'm afraid to win, and afraid to lose; I hate a draw and can't stop competing; otherwise I'm fine.

I had a couple friends from all the different cliques in school, but my true friends were my gymnastics teammates. I grew up competing with them for ten years.

You can't lose a game in which you're not even competing.

Competing, to me is just a mentality that says you never back down.

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

If right and left are competing to be the biggest victim, who is competing to be the government?

A piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love.

There is competition. It's almost like I'm back in tennis competing in a way. There are usually about twenty composers vying for the number one spot for a big or medium film.

When you play competitive tennis you are competing against someone else and you have to win. Playing music I didn't have to win I had to become better within myself.

People, instead of competing, they can actually support each other, in music.

Too many multi-vitamins are packaged as one size fits all, but you should be more specific about what you need. When I was competing as a dancer, I took zinc for healthy skin and immune system.

I always liked running as a kid. You know how eating chocolate or ice cream makes you feel good? That's the same way that running and competing makes me feel.

I can't spend the rest of my life competing for your attention and coming in last.

I don't know how long I'll be competing but I'll always be surfing. I'll be surfing until I'm old.

These days you're not just competing with the tedium, you're competing with the cellphone.

Competing helps me to polish my shape.

The belts to me, they don't really mean much to be honest. It's the people who I fought and me going out there competing and fighting.

Devolving APD to Scotland is merely tinkering with it. We have to get shot of this hated tax right across the country to ensure all of our airports are competing on level terms.

If you are competing with slaves, then you are a slave yourself.

I think you can get a sort of intensity and an edginess offering nine stories in a book. Competing versions of things.