Quotes and Sayings About Competition
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Further, the same Arguments which explode the Notion of Luck, may, on the other side, be useful in some Cases to establish a due comparison between Chance and Design: We may imagine Chance and Design to be, as it were, in Competition with each other, for the production of some sorts of Events, and many calculate what Probability there is, that those Events should be rather be owing to the one than to the other.
-- Abraham de MoivreSource : "The Doctrine of Chances: Or, A Method of Calculating the Probabilities of Events in Play".
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Whilst there's a competition still on we're still a chance,
-- Adam GilchristSource : "Tendulkar hogs limelight in Sydney". www.cnn.com. January 3, 2004.
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I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.
-- Adam Lambert -
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
-- Adam Smith -
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I want all the gold that there is out there — everything that exists in figure skating. In all events, in all competitions.
-- Adelina SotnikovaSource : "17-Year-Old Gold Medalist Vows To Dominate The Figure Skating World" by Tony Manfred, www.businessinsider.com. February 21, 2014.
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This is where men and women are different, we can put aside petty competition for relationships - they can't. It interferes.
-- Adriana Trigiani -
It don't matter what competition it is. I make it all look easy.
-- Adrien Broner -
I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end, I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture.
-- Ai Weiwei -
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Competition in its best form is a test of self. It has nothing to do with medals. The winner is the person who gets the most out of themselves.
-- Al Oerter -
In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work for a writer. You can't put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well.
-- Alain de Botton -
It's no accident that capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge. Egoism and competition are, alas, stronger forces than public spirit and sense of duty.
-- Albert Einstein -
The competition of social power with State power is always disadvantaged, since the State can arrange the terms of competition to suit itself, even to the point of outlawing any exercise of social power whatever in the premises; in other words, giving itself a monopoly.
-- Albert J. Nock -
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I am always fighting inside the Council to get the message across that at each competition venue, we should send somebody to inspect and to make sure the athletes will be looked after in a correct manner.
-- Alberto Juantorena -
The most important part of this is to prepare the athlete for life in general and then be able to compete.
-- Alberto Juantorena -
Every guild and trade has its own...private patriotism, which makes it resent all rebellion from within and all competition or criticism from without. ...Vested Interests. The manufacture of optical glass...
-- Aldous Huxley -
I was very competitive with my brothers when I was younger. Now we are all in completely different worlds. Im not in direct competition with my brothers for anything, ever. Stephen and I and Billy and I are better at staying in touch with each other. Danny is married, he has a new baby and he is very peripatetic, he goes to golfing tournaments and charity things. He really travels a lot.
-- Alec Baldwin -
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During a Chess competition a Chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk
-- Alexander Alekhine -
By a steady adherence to the Union we may hope, erelong, to become the arbiter of Europe in America, and to be able to incline the balance of European competitions in this part of the world as our interest may dictate.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
If somebody has a monopoly position, and wants to keep that monopoly position, it means that you are effectively shutting out competition from other sources.
-- Alexander StilleSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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It was a natural process, because when we go to the ring we are human beings, but once you feel the punches and the competition that's when the beast comes out and takes hold of us.
-- Alexis Arguello -
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Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force you to accept a rate of return less than you hoped for, or for that matter to accept temporary losses
-- Alfred P. SloanSource : Alfred P Sloan (2015). “My Years With General Motors”, p.173, eNet Press
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I went to national piano competitions and did that whole circuit. Then I played professionally to support myself when I moved out to LA.
-- Alicia WittSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Don't kill the competition. Competition is healthy for businesses. It keeps you the entrepreneur on your toes.
-- Aliko Dangote -
I am reaching a point in my life where the basketball chapter in my life is slowly closing from a competition standpoint.
-- Alonzo Mourning -
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Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Don't steal; thou'lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
I don't feel any sense of competition at all, and that might be my naïveté, but I don't feel pitted against anyone at all.
-- Amy Schumer -
The rare individuals who unselfishly try to serve others have an enormous advantage-they have little competition.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
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Competition exists to choose who gets the prize when the prize can’t be shared.
-- Andrew Harvey -
I was getting Monkees Monthly and there was a competition to draw a Monkee. I did a caricature of Micky Dolenz and won 10 pounds-a fantastic sum of money for me then. I bought a secondhand tape recorder, which further launched me. They've been very responsible for me getting started.
-- Andy Partridge