Competition Quotes - page 5

The Champions League is a big ambition, and all the footballers want to play in it; it is a very important competition. (Fernando Torres)
Real competition can drive up testosterone, which boosts libido. View quote
Helen Fisher
Encourage kids to enjoy running and play in athletics. Don't force them to run too much competition. View quote
Arthur Lydiard
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that. View quote
Bill Joy
Nature is based on harmony. So it says if we want to survive and become more like nature, then we actually have to understand that it's cooperation versus competition. View quote
Bruce H. Lipton
Evolution is all about processes that almost never happen. Every birth in every lineage is a potential speciation event, but speciation almost never happens, not once in a million births. Mutation in DNA almost never happens - not once in a trillion copings - but evolution depends on it. Take the set of infrequent accidents - things that almost never happen - and sort them into the happy accidents, the neutral accidents, and the fatal accidents; amplify the effects of the happy accidents - which happens automatically when you have replication and competition - and you get evolution. View quote
Daniel Dennett
It is nice to have valid competition; it pushes you to do better. View quote
Gianni Versace
Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don't support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck. View quote
James Altucher
We humans have always sought to increase our personal energy in the only manner we have known, by seeking to psychologically steal it from the others--an unconscious competition that underlies all human conflict in the world. View quote
James Redfield
Adam Smith had one overwhelmingly important triumph: he put into the center of economics the systematic analysis of the behavior of individuals pursuing their self-interest under conditions of competition. View quote
George Stigler
I have some women friends but I prefer men. Dont trust women. There is a built-in competition between women. (Edna O'Brien)
On the light side everyone thinks they are the most important, that their own understandings, or their group's understandings, are the key. There's a diversity of cultures and opinions, so there is competition, diffusion, and no single focus. View quote
Carlos Barrios
When I broke in, in 1957, it was wide open. Now you're up against strong competition. View quote
Larry King
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. View quote
Leon Jouhaux
The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away. View quote
Walter Wriston
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. View quote
Alberto Salazar
Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy. View quote
Wendell Berry
Competition can be the most nerve-racking experience. Some people just thrive on it. View quote
Itzhak Perlman
I view my strongest competition as myself. You're always trying to top yourself, rather than worrying about what other people are doing. View quote
John C. Reilly
There are horses people use for competition, and if they don't perform well or go lame, then people ask the vet to put them down to get the insurance money. And my vet knows I love horses, so he gives them to me. View quote
Daryl Hannah
I mean, the competition is really created by the buzz around the Emmys. It's a totally subjective thing. (Michael C. Hall)
Competition is an easy way to get into flow. View quote
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
There's fierce competition between all the networks to get the guest who can bring the most pertinent information about whatever the story of the moment happens to be. View quote
Bob Schieffer
It was a natural process, because when we go to the ring we are human beings, but once you feel the punches and the competition that's when the beast comes out and takes hold of us. View quote
Alexis Arguello
I am reaching a point in my life where the basketball chapter in my life is slowly closing from a competition standpoint. View quote
Alonzo Mourning