Best 1389 quotes in «competition quotes» category

Mr. Stock came out of the competition tent carrying his zeppelin marrow on one shoulder and demanding to know what was going on. When he saw the hordes advancing on Aidan, he charged off that way, whirling the great vegetable. The Puck, who was rushing behind the horde, yelling at them to grab Aidan and kill Rolf, was Mr. Stock's first victim. The marrow caught him THOCK! on the side of the head. It laid the Puck out cold on the grass, but the mighty vegetable remained intact, mottled and glossy

Murdoch paid too much for the Wall Street Journal even when he didn't have any competition.

My acting style and my physicality lends itself to doing things like putting a scene together for a dancing competition.

My best year of track competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet.

My dad's so likeable, you wouldn't feel in competition with him. If any boyfriends have ever felt that, they're long gone.

My driver Kellie Frost and I would race these fellows home and they were always faster on the highway. We did the same with Daniel and his driver, and thus began a long series of jokes and competitions to alleviate the impossible hours and tensions this film provoked.

My Emmy competition is awfully good. My stomach is already in knots. The problem is that I don't drink, so I can't calm myself that way. I wish I could be better at pretending I don't care.

My dreams are who I'm racin wit but you can see I'm pacin it so that I'm always chasin it.

My instinct is to assume that we consumers are an inconsistent bunch. We like competition if it delivers low prices, but grumble if it delivers the bad news that prices need to go up.

My motivation for 20 years, for 10 years with WikiLeaks, has been to publish true information that is otherwise unsayable. So we're not in competition, if you like.

My hat's in the ring. The fight is on and I'm stripped to the buff.

My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas.

My operating assumption is we will always have very tough competition. And even with some European banks struggling right now, some of them can reemerge - and maybe even stronger.

My position is such that there is no necessity for me to enter into competition with struggling humanity. As to expensive and ruinous pleasures, I am a sceptic who knows how much they are worth, or rather, knows that they are not worth anything.

My sister Liza and I have never felt that we were in competition.

Nature has a drive for wholeness and has created us only in relationship like one giant superorganism. It's a fact there is a connection between atoms and all of us in relationship with each other and with our environment. In all of our societal relationships there is a bond so profound and intricate that it's impossible to say where one thing stops and another thing begins. So you see this mirrored in every aspect, from the subatomic world to the world that we're more familiar with. So competition ends up being a false creation in our society.

No amount of artificial protection can permanently maintain an obsolete product, an inferior process or a moribund organization against competitors which are based on scientifically improved products or methods.

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.

One thing is sure: if you want running fast in competition, you must run fast in training. The problem is WHEN and HOW, not IF.

One thing I learned in '97, when I thought the right time to found a company was during a swing-up, is that it's much better to start during an economic downturn. Partnerships are easier; hiring is easier; and the competition starts later.

Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.

No competition, no progress.

No matter what you are, you're a mess." That's what the world tells us. "Every other woman is your competition. You feel bad about yourself and every other woman think she's perfect.

No matter what the competition is, I try to find a goal that day and better that goal.

No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square.

No one can see ahead three years, let alone five or ten. Competition, new inventions - all kinds of things - can change the situation in twelve months.

No one intimidates me because I'm not trying to do what you do, because I can't do what you do. I can only do what Mary J. Blige can do, so that relaxes me right there, and it gets me out of the competition and that whole thing.

North and West have always vied for power and territory, but their recent competition as to which one is more insidious of the twohas been more peaceful.

No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style.

Not too worried about fighting for titles, but just fighting the best competition at the Welterweight division. I'll be happy with that.

No violence, No competition, No Groups, No Chiefs.

Nowadays young people have great choice of occupations, hobbies, etc, so chess is experiencing difficulties because of the high competition. Now it's hard to make living in chess, so our profession does attract young people.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Now I'm 'Blake Lewis' to the world, but I will always still be Bshorty from Bothell... I've never looked at it like a competition so I think I've won regardless. I won when I got to the top ten; I've already reached my goal.

Now the struggle for life is so sharp, competition is so severe, that few men can succeed who carry a useless burden. The businessmen of our country are compelled to lead temperate lives, otherwise their credit is gone.

Oh that was your girl? I thought I recognized her.

Olympics is global competition in which eighty, ninety, hundred, hundred and ten countries participate.

Once I started playing the piano, after my first small competition, I realized that the piano was the right instrument for me.

One good act of vengeance deserves another.

One of the dogs in the competition, a Portuguese Water Dog, is related to President Obama's dog, Bo. But they only see each other at funerals and weddings.

One of the biggest lies in capitalism is that companies like competition. They don't. Nobody likes competition.

Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far. I won't even call a friend on the day of a match. I'm scared of disrupting my concentration. I don't allow any competition with tennis.

Only in situations where competition is illegal will competition not act naturally to bring the best product at the lowest price to the consumer.

Only dead mathematics can be taught where the attitude of competition prevails: living mathematics must always be a communal possession.

One of the reasons that I'm a lurker on Twitter is that every time I tweet an idea, I feel like I'm delivering something to the competition that I ought to be giving to a reporter here.

One of the reasons why they are optimistic is that there is more competition. Red Bull has become more competitive, the races have become more attractive - and that is what fans want!

Our competition is different. They're confused. They chased after netbooks. Now they're trying to make PCs into tablets and tablets into PCs. Who knows what they'll do next?

Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world.

Our competition in life is solely with our old self.

Our government needs to adopt a pro-market agenda that doesn't pick winners and losers, but it invites competition and it levels the playing field for everyone.