“ Good designers relentlessly generate lots of ideas and open-mindedly consider alternative solutions. At no time are good designers frightened to entertain a crazy, competing, or uncomfortable idea. ”
- Karl Ulrich- Copy
- 937
“ I don't like being compared to anyone or being in a class with someone. I'm a teen actress and therefore I'm competing against Hilary Duff. We're different people like everyone else. ”
- Amanda Bynes- Copy
- 557
“ The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self improvement, about being better than you were the day before. ”
- Steve Young- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Of all that Orient lands can vaunt, of marvels with our own competing, the strangest is the Haschish plant, and what will follow on its eating. ”
- John Greenleaf Whittier- Copy
- 2.3K
“ If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard. The thrill of competing carries with it the thrill of a gold medal. One wants to win to prove himself the best. ”
- Jesse Owens- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will. ”
- Ron Blomberg- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Ultimately, being a part of a team means competing, working, living and winning and losing together. And in the end, a teammate's nationality, his language, his taste in music or his religion aren't sources of division, but in fact mediums of greater friendship, understanding and success. ”
- Steve Kerr- Copy
- 3.9K
“ I know it sounds like a cliche, but the greatest gift that you can give yourself comes from helping someone else. We get so caught up in our own lives and in our unrealistic worlds. We're so busy achieving and competing and worrying about silly little minutiae that we lose sight of the larger picture. ”
- Norma Kamali- Copy
- 487
“ As soon as you concern yourself with the "good" and "bad" of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weaken and defeat you. ”
- Morihei Ueshiba- Copy
- 1.9K
“ There is a hereditary selective advantage to membership in a powerful group united by devout belief and purpose. Even when individuals subordinate themselves and risk death in common cause, their genes are more likely to be transmitted to the next generation than are those of competing groups who lack equivalent resolve. ”
- Edward O. Wilson- Copy
- 1.3K
“ In 1906 the Pennsylvania began to dispose of the bulk of its holdings in competing properties, the most notable transactions being the sale of its entire interest in the Chesapeake and Ohio to independent interests and a substantial part of its Baltimore and Ohio holdings to the Union Pacific Railroad. ”
- John Moody- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Carrying out this policy of promoting harmony among competing lines, the New York Central and Pennsylvania Railroad early in 1900 acquired a working control of the Reading Company, which in turn controlled the New Jersey Central and dominated the anthracite coal traffic. ”
- John Moody- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests. ”
- C. Wright Mills- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Sexually,we are all competing for the same seat on the bus and the thing that holds it together is the tightly held conceit that we are all sexual gods. How can I believe in my own uniqueness when there's a cat out there exactly the same as me? ”
- Jeff Melvoin- Copy
- 2.9K
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