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Competition Quotes


"It can't really happen today the way it did back then and part of that is because I think there's a bit of a competitive scare over at Marvel and DC so they lock guys up with exclusive contracts."


"Life can often be a competition and your greatest opponent is yourself."


"Competition is a rude yet effective motivation."


"Competition is very good... as long as its healthy. It's what makes one strive to be better."


"The rules of Panic are simple. Anyone can enter. But only one person will win."


"Competition to further the world of pursuing ego=bad. Competition to improve both capabilities and processes = good."


"Competition may help us create better products and services but in the end competition really seeks to destroy the opponent. To put him out of the power to compete against you."



"Competition is a bad company [kusang, the company which will bring our downfall]."



"If we want to be free [get liberated], don't compete. As long as there is competition, the other person will hide his faults and we will hide ours."


"If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first."


"Nothing frustrates people more than a cocky guy who's still winning."


"Compete with yourself, you have no knowledge about the degree of gifting others might have. Don't decide to slow down because you have gone too far and everyone is behind you!"


"Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly."


"Unlike sport in business the win-win is the best possible score."


"Men are born for games. Nothing else. Every child knows that play is nobler than work. He knows too that the worth or merit of a game is not inherent in the game itself but rather in the value of that which is put at hazard. Games of chance require a wager to have meaning at all. Games of sport involve the skill and strength of the opponents and the humiliation of defeat and the pride of victory are in themselves sufficient stake because they inhere in the worth of the principals and define them. But the trial of chance or trial of worth all games aspire to the condition of war for here that which is wagered swallows up game, player, all."


"Hmm", Jason snapped his fingers. "I can call a friend for a ride.Percy raised his eyebrows. "Oh, yeah? Me too. Let's see whose friend gets here first."


"Nothing amuses people more than a cocky guy who starts losing."


"Not all races are run on a track. And not all finish lines are marked by ticker tape."


"I don't consider those competitions fair where judges get to decide the winner, because selected judges quite often are not worthy or qualified enough to make the right decision."


"Don't compete with your friends to win a date with few beautiful girls, but compete to win few beautiful goals."
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