Famous Quotes & Sayings

Florence Nightingale

At present we live to impede each other's satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?

Jeff Galloway

The marathon is a competition between your will and your possibilities

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

I don't have to be enemies with someone to be competitors with them.

Chris Murray

Let your customers and prospects recommend you to each other and let you competition wish they were you. That is our mission.

Fred Allen

We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.

Christopher Bond

It is U.S. workers who lose out when employers cannot get the high-tech graduates they need to compete with foreign companies in the 21st century economy.

George Stigler

The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist.

George Stephenson

Where combination is possible, competition is impossible.

Franz Grillparzer

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.

Hope Solo

I live for competition. It makes my life complete.

Ian Rankin

I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and I won first prize. The first story was published in a newspaper. The second went out on radio.

Hugo Chavez

We have to re-invent socialism. It can’t be the kind of socialism that we saw in the Soviet Union, but it will emerge as we develop new systems that are built on cooperation, not competition,

Hannah Arendt

According to bourgeois standards, those who are completely unlucky and unsuccessful are automatically barred from competition, which is the life of society. Good fortune is identified with honor, and bad luck with shame.

If (Gilson) and (Martin) go over 55 feet, PR on the shot put and get fifth or sixth place I'll be happy but if they throw 46 feet and win I'll be mad. It will be tough competition and it just matters on how they perform.

I don't think the competition is as good. ... If he can duplicate his Wood Memorial, you'll see what kind of horse he is.

I don't think there is any competition. She's on a different level and quite outside them all.

Manny Acta

I don't think that, with the level of competition of every team, you need to have your 'A' team out there for nine innings every day.

I am a big proponent of water. We do water while we exercise at all points in time. During any competition or while we are on the practice field, we supply water in copious amounts.

Jim Henson

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

Herman Edwards

Curtis understands that he's going to be back here, (but) there's going to be open competition (for the starting position). Obviously, Curtis Martin will have a role on this team.

Current management failed to come up with a winning strategy to fend off the competition at the low end with Wal-Mart and at the high end. There is no strategy other than cutting costs.

An interesting thing when you get to this level is you really have to step back from the competitiveness.

And, while there is huge competition for places now, those 22 players deserved to be in for another game after that terrific result last weekend.

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During his short time with us last season, we got a good taste of his professionalism and competitiveness. He is a young, exciting player, and we look forward to his contributions to our team.

Eagan went out of our section, and then won state. So it's a tough section and the competition will be strong all year.

Ezra Taft Benson

Fear of men's judgment manifests itself in competition for men's approval.

Everything to get ready for (a) competitive market is good for us, whether the competition shows up or not.

Everything that we do throughout the whole season - the number of matches we wrestle and the competition we wrestle - is in preparation for this.

Even though we lost, it gave us some good competition and playing two extra games, and the tournament was run very smooth.

Tony Campos

Even though the level of competition wasn't as high as we've been facing lately, we played very well today. The girls kept up their intensity, which is something we're going to need when we get into league play.

Lynn Swann

Bill's competition for this nomination has contributed a great deal to the debate about making the Commonwealth a better place for all Pennsylvanians.

Everything we've been saying was vindicated by that report. A lack of competition raises prices. I don't know how much more evidence the Legislature needs.