Competing Quotes

Wars raged everywhere as men found new, inventive ways to kill even more of their race. It was like a contest, the many tribes of mankind competing to see who could commit the worst atrocities.

For my father, being kind was natural... I have to really work at it. I love competing and winning, conquest - not words you usually associate with kindness.

Mitt Romney had a horse competing in the Olympics. He didn't win. But next year, he'll be competing in 'Dancing with the Stars.'

I got into music via the competitions; the first time I ever performed was in a kind of rap battle, competing for money.

Tennis is such an individual and competitive sport, but it is great being part of a team and getting to know the girls outside of tennis - even though we are all competing for the same thing!

Remember, we're competing in a rigged election [2016]. This is a rigged election, folks.

They all start competing against Lincoln as the greatest president. And the [library] building becomes the symbol, the memorial to that dream.

I attacked my cancer diagnosis the same way I attack training and competing, and that's pretty fearless.

The atmosphere at the different arenas has been pretty crazy. It's been a lot of fun coming to the rink every night and competing at this level and intensity. It's going to continue and get better.

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

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.

There is competition in Zen. Let's not be ridiculous. There is competition in everything in life; being a winner in Zen means, competing and winning in the world of enlightenment.

We are alive for a certain period of time in any given lifetime. We are competing against time. It is a race to see if we can wake up before we go to sleep again. That is the challenge.

I haven't been in a job situation in which I was competing with other women. As a writer, you're more likely to be treated as an individual.

Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided; more often it is a crisis invited.

There are so many music genres competing against each other, but I feel like country music has always been a unified front.

Golf really excites me only when the course is difficult and challenging. I love competing. The pressure of competition against fine holes and fine players makes me feel very much alive.

I don't really think in terms of competing with myself.

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.

I'm not a big fan of the comics competing against each other.

I enjoy competing in the marketplace of free ideas.

I don't want to think of life after competing. But if I were to do anything else I'd go down the psychology route. That's what interests me.

Trophies separate the winners from losers, and life is about winning and losing. Go into business and you see. You're competing every day.

I stay away from big chunks of carbs and try to keep it lean, even when Im competing.

Over the years, autism has almost been a diagnosis in the eye of the beholder, which allows for all kinds of arguments and dissension and theories and competing therapies to come into play.

Michael Jordan makes you bring your game to another level. That's why I loved competing against him.

Local competing businesses were thereby losing revenue.

I'm not competing in Iowa for a reason.

Politicians must pick sides regularly; every time they vote. So it's perhaps natural that they see the world as a battle between competing groups.

Governing involves choosing and making choices between competing goods.

Everybody knows the competing identities of people who have kids.

That this is not a sense of innovation and competition increasing prices because some other company is coming in and competing with Martin Shkreli. This is literally a monopoly.

It's very good for us to say, as liberals, that we should be moved by everything, but the fact is that there's just so much competing for our attention.

It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what I was getting into.

It's frustrating in the sense that I still think I could be competing at some sport at a fairly high level, which nobody cares about. Nobody wants to hear me say that.

I look forward to competing.

When you're young, you develop ways to win, and you think they will always work, but then you get to the top, competing against the other top athletes, and sometimes things don't work.

It took a lot of time for me to understand that I'm not competing against anybody but myself.

I think actually the marketing community is approaching a crisis: There are just too many messages competing for too little attention. That is the fundamental problem.

Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.

Acting is not a profession of competing with other actors, but rather a vocation of sharing with fellow human beings.

It was good to be out there again. Actually I told my wife the same thing: Itll be fun to go out in a stadium on a field competing. Even though it was just a scrimmage.

I had two older brothers, so I was always competing with them. The guys I grew up with on the golf course, when I was 13, they were 15 or 16, and I was always trying to beat them.

Switzerland is the perfect place where you have volatility at a municipal level that nothing up top - small units competing with each other.

If people go into music with the idea of competing with other artists, then they're doing it for all the wrong reasons.

Nations have the wrong granularity. They’re too small to be global and too big to be local, and all they can think about is competing.

I don't have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people.

I do miss competing, being out there - the atmosphere, I do miss it.

The virtue of losing is we get used to the fact that competing and to lose doesn't kill you. It just makes you stronger. It just helps you get used to it.

I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment.