![The competition between human beings destroys with cold and diabolic brutality... Under the pressure of this competitive fury we have not only forgotten what is useful to humanity as a whole, but even that which is good and advantageous to the individual. [...] One asks, which is more damaging to modern humanity: the thirst for money or consuming haste... in either case, fear plays a very important role: the fear of being overtaken by one's competitors, the fear of becoming poor, the fear of making wrong decisions or the fear of not being up to snuff...](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-competition-between-human-beings-destroys-with-cold-and-diabolic-brutality.jpg)
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But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. C. S. Lewis
play age entertainment
And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion. Aldous Huxley
play symphony actors
A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors. Colin Wilson
play meat inspired
The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I flatter myself, is exactly what I smacked them with. Clare Boothe Luce
play focus jazz
I still play jazz, and I've always got that trumpet very handy, but I'm coming to feel the classical venues are where my main focus is, in the realm of symphonic pops. Doc Severinsen
play symphony community
Have you seen a symphony orchestra? There is a person at the back carrying a triangle. Now and again the conductor will point to him or her and that person will play "ting." That might seem so insignificant, but in the conception of the composer something irreplaceable would be lost to the total beauty of the symphony if that "ting" did not happen. Desmond Tutu
play people watches
If they watch me play, people will say I'm not into it or whatever. That's okay. I kind of like it. People don't know how much work I'm putting into it. They don't need to know. Derrek Lee
play wells brady
Tom Brady rises up to the occasion and plays well. That is just who he is. Deion Sanders
play waiting pockets
Russell [Wilson] plays really well in the pocket [and] outside the pocket. He’s just a play waiting to happen.
decisions-we-make evil littles
Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.
decision president caution
Make decisions about the President's personal security. He can overrule you, but don't ask him to be the one to counsel caution. Donald Rumsfeld
decision intuition
When you are under time pressure for a decision, you need to follow intuition. Daniel Kahneman
decision hindsight made
When I was younger, I made some decisions that I shouldn't have. And, in hindsight, I've almost always been wrong when I haven't listened to myself. Daniel Day-Lewis
decision quests information
We live in a world that is subjectively open. And we are designed by evolution to be "informavores", epistemically hungry seekers of information, in an endless quest to improve our purchase on the world, the better to make decisions about our subjectively open future. Daniel Dennett
decision meals fasting
If you're having a difficult time making the best decision then consider fasting. Fasting is simply taking something you regularly do and replacing it with praying and seeking God. For example instead of eating a meal you can take that time to seek God and allow Him to speak to you about the decision. Dan Black
decision leader conservative
We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress. David Frum
decision environment natural
You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for. David Attenborough
decision pushing events
I'm not big on looking back beyond the moment in which decisions and events occur. I'm always pushing forward. David Stern
competition five four friday itself last register team won year
The team that won last year prides itself on being the last team to register. So they usually register around 4:30 p.m. on the Friday of the competition and they have won the last four or five years that they've been playing. Jim Gray
competition course friendly golf huge match spread
We've got a big golf course here, but what we've got are 16, 17 and 18, that if you come out and play a friendly match or if we have a competition here, there can be a huge spread of scores. Steve Smyers
competition running wherever work
They want me to play running back. Wherever you go, you've got to work to be the best. Competition is good.
competition casinos commodity
Lets embrace productive capitalism, not casino capitalism, by restoring transparency and true competition in the commodities markets. Maria Cantwell
competition film made
A lot of my friends aren't working, especially since fewer films are being made now and there's more competition. Lily Collins
competition academia vicious
Competition in academia is so vicious because the stakes are so small. Laurence J. Peter
competition want
You never want to be completely alone at what you do. Competition is good for everyone. Marc Benioff
competition chinese india
India is scared of the competition... because Chinese goods will go into India and compete. Lee Kuan Yew
competition sin
Competition is a sin. John D. Rockefeller