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She transcends her sport, which is what any sport needs...And she does it while smiling the whole time. It's kind of a joke, but then again it's not, especially if you're a male pro trailing in her wake. To have this woman in the middle of such a suffer fest out there crushing people and smiling all the way...

Shindana na wenzako kuwa juu zaidi katika tasnia uliyojichagulia.

Sikujui.

Since as far back as I could remember, I'd felt that Lisa's responses toward me usually bordered on the brink of hostility. Years later, a therapist would explain that growing up with few resources had turned us into competitors- over food, over our parents' love, over everything. At the moment, we were competing for who had the better handle on Ma's illness, and we both knew she was winning.

Skills make dreams happen. They build economies. They make people rich and famous. In today’s world, the demands for skills are staggering. Government, business and individuals have too much to achieve, their goals are huge. They are constantly, and I do mean constantly, looking for people with the right skills. People that can get the job done.

Somewhere along the line you quit etching your kills on the side of your fighter.

Step up your game and success will step up to you.

strategy is about confronting an opponent and fighting over a given piece of land that is both limited and constant.

Successes are those highlights of life we look back on with a smile. But it's the day to day grind of getting them that defines the laugh lines etched until the end of time. Enjoy each moment along the way

Strategy is heavily influenced by its roots in military strategy. The very language of strategy is deeply imbued with military references— chief executive “officers” in “headquarters,” “troops” on the “front lines.” Described this way, strategy is all about red ocean competition. It is about confronting an opponent and driving him off a battlefield of limited territory.

Strength should always be complimented by softness. If you resist too much, you will break. Thus, the strong person knows when to use strength and when to yield, and good fortune and disaster depend on whether you know how and when to yield.

Successful people compete against themselves, not against other people.

strategy perforce becomes a zero-sum game where one company’s gain is another company’s loss

Sympathetic joy is a practice. It takes time and effort to free ourselves of the scarcity story that most of us have learned along the way, the idea that happiness is a competition, and that someone else is grabbing all the joy.

Suppose you want something very much. You think that if you don’t get that something, happiness won’t be possible. You get caught in that idea. But, in reality, there are people who have that thing who are miserable, and there people who don’t have that thing who are perfectly happy.

That person staring back at you when you look in the mirror... that's your competition.

Talent silences your competition; genius deafens them.

Take time to define your own goals and stay focused on achieving them. You're your own competition.

Tambua vitu vya muhimu katika maisha yako ijapokuwa unaweza kuacha alama katika dunia bila kujitambua baada ya kuondoka.

Teams that spend a lot of time learning the tricks of the trade will probably never really learn the trade.

The average Harvard freshman in 1952 would have placed in the bottom 10 percent of the incoming class by 1960.

The fact that compulsive drives for success will arise only in a competitive culture does not make them any less neurotic.

The best way to intimidate your opponents is with your brilliance.

The game ain't always fair and that's the thing, though. You can play your heart out, everybody don't get a ring though.

The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating.

The high road of grace will get you somewhere a whole lot faster then the freeway of spite.

The great compete not only against others, but also against themselves.

The highway of grace will get you somewhere a whole lot faster then the freeway of spite.

The information age is converting a human from loving to logical and replacing his peace with the pain.

The last goose in the column is flying just as high.

The labourer seeks to maintain the total of his wages for a given time by performing more labour, either by working a greater number of hours, or by accomplishing more in the same number of hours. Thus, urged on by want, he himself multiplies the disastrous effects of division of labour. The result is: the more he works, the less wages he receives. And for this simple reason: the more he works, the more he competes against his fellow workmen, the more he compels them to compete against him, and to offer themselves on the same wretched conditions as he does so that, in the last analysis, he competes against himself as a member of the working class.

The only competition that matters the most, is competing to become better than your best old self.

The only competition that matters the most in life, is the one between you and your old self.

The only person worth competing with is yourself. Work to be a better version of you, not a better version of someone else.

The only person you should compete with is you.

The phrase "it's better to be lucky than good" must be one of the most ridiculous homilies ever uttered. In nearly any competitive endeavor, you have to be damned good before luck can be of any use to you at all.

The pace and ability at which an organization is able to effectively innovate will be the determining factor of competitiveness in the future. The future is now.

The pinnacle of human consciousness must be the rejection of unhealthy competition, war and violence.

The problem is politics is made a sport, almost as much a sport as football or baseball. When it comes to politics, adults and politicians do more finger-pointing and play more games than children ever do. Too often are we rooting for the pride of a team rather than the good of the nation.

the prudent business mind must not only think of competing with the prevailing giants in the market but must also not be oblivious of the latent deft of the masses who are yet to dare

There is a scene in one of the Rocky movies where after the match Apollo Creed and Rocky are waiting for the scoring of their brawl all beat up and battered, obviously both fighters gave all they had to win, and Apollo Creed says to Rocky - "Your not getting a rematch" and Rocky says "I don't want one". I love that scene. That's when you know that you left no doubt - that your opponent, win or lose, never wants to compete against you ever again. That's fighting.

There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin.

There is no Situation in which Arms can get an Answer. Arms only ensure, that there would Never be an Answer.

There is not the slightest analogy between playing games and the conduct of business within a market society. The card player wins money by outsmarting his antagonist. The businessman makes money by supplying customers with goods they want to acquire.

There is no such thing as loving a child too much.

There is no such thing as "healthy" competition within a knowledge organization; all internal competition is destructive. The nature of our work is that it cannot be done by any single person in isolation. Knowledge work is by definition collaborative.

The smart business person sees an opportunity to generate referrals by collaborating with their competitors.

There's more to a person than flesh. Judge others by the sum of their soul and you'll see that beauty is a force of light that radiates from the inside out.

The secret to unseating great power, is not to move the other direction, but to compete directly against their goals.

There's a lot of good things about England, but I don't want to tell you too many of them.