C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Compete with the immortals”
“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!”
Source: Daily Drive 365
“Compete with yourself, not with others.”
Source: #Girlboss
“Competence, Courage, Confident!”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Competence doesn't seem like a big deal until you are forced to realize that your own government has none.”
“Competence goes beyond words. It's the leader's ability to say it, plan it, and do it in such a way that others know that you know how - and know that they want to follow you.”
Source: The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow
“Competence in heterosexuality, or at least the appearance or pretense of such competence, is as much a public affair as a privateone. Thus, going steady is a high school diploma in heterosexuality; engagement a BA; marriage an MA; and children a Ph.D.”
“Competence is a big word. It is important. I almost want to nuance it with the idea of giftedness because sometimes you can teach a lot of skills on exposition but a person may not have the competence or the giftedness to do it. Therefore, it is very important to have that.”
“Competence is a great creator of confidence.”
Source: The Burning Point
“Competence is a narrow ideal. Competence makes the trains run on time but doesn't know where they're going.”
“Competence is no longer a scarce commodity.”
“Competence is no longer scarce.”
Source: The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?
“Competence is the creed of the technocrat who makes sure the gears mesh but doesn't for a second understand the magic of the machine.”
“Competence is the enemy of change!”
Source: Survival Is Not Enough: Shift Happens
“Competence makes the rules,
intelligence follows the rules,
excellence bends the rules,
and brilliance breaks the rules.
Skill follows the rules,
talent replaces the rules,
mastery shatters the rules,
but genius makes its own rules.”
“Competence means keeping your head in a crisis, sticking with a task even when it seems hopeless, and improvising good solutions to tough problems when every second counts. It encompasses ingenuity, determination and being prepared for anything.”
Source: An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
“Competence was attractive.”
Source: Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger
“Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.”
Source: The Peter Principle
“Competency-Based Learning ensures learners develop specific skills efficiently, progressing at their own pace in personalized journeys designed to foster comprehensive mastery.”
“Competency-Based Learning tailors skill development, enabling learners to progress at their own pace for efficient and comprehensive mastery.”
“Competent managers are those who have gained insight into their darkside traits and have found ways to negate their debilitating effects on followers.”
Source: Leadership: Enhancing the Lessons of Experience by Hughes Richard L. Ginnett Robert C. Gannett Robert C. (1998-10-15) Hardcover
“Competent managers must accurately read the situational and follower factors affecting their teams and remain vigilant for changes.”
Source: Leadership: Enhancing the Lessons of Experience by Hughes Richard L. Ginnett Robert C. Gannett Robert C. (1998-10-15) Hardcover
“Competent people are the most resistant to change”
“Competing against each other leaves little space for reciprocity and the growth of social capital. Running against another in a race may benefit our speed, but jointly organising the sports day produces cooperation and trust. There are many situations where cooperation and reciprocity are more effective than competition. Civic virtues come from building on what we have in common rather than by using our differences to create in-groups, outgroups and fear driven competition”
“Competing at the highest level is not about winning. It's about preparation, courage, understanding and nurturing your people, and heart. Winning is the result.”
“Competing at the Olympics is the pinnacle of your career. Everything is amplified, and you feel so proud to represent your country. You're there with athletes from all over the world. Everyone is coming together, putting differences aside.”
“Competing companies evolve toward efficiency as the more efficient ones profit and expand while those who fall behind fail. And companies being efficient and profiting under the Health Impact Fund, this is exactly what we want, because the company's profit is directly driven by the health impact its registered products achieve.”
“Competing for Wales in the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne 2006 at the age of 16 was daunting for me. It was my first major senior competition and to go out there in front of such a huge crowd was terrifying at the time, but I've had so many senior internationals since then, I feel that this experience has given me the confidence to give it the best shot that I can.”
“Competing helps me to polish my shape.”
“Competing images of the poor as 'deserving' and 'undeserving' became central components of the debate.”
Source: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
“Competing in gymnastics is the greatest reminder of being alive as a human being.”
“Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.”
“Competing is exciting and winning is exhilarating, but the true prize will always be the self-knowledge and understanding that you have gained along the way.”
“Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.”
“Competing loves are detected in the gap between saying and doing.”
“Competing with other women wastes a lot of time, and I'm just not very good at it.”
“Competing, to me is just a mentality that says you never back down.”
“Competition [in a scene] is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get along. And they are therefore not first-rate actors.”
“Competition and rivalry between the members of a group are the antithesis of the cooperation and team play needed in an effective management group. This is why team building is an empty abstraction for a group whose leader controls with power.”
“Competition and the market are like water, they go where they want”
“Competition between women is good only if it does not prevail; that is to say if it coexists with affinity, affection, with a real sense of being mutually indispensable, with sudden peaks of solidarity in spite of envy, jealousy and the whole inevitable cohort of bad feelings.”
Source: Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey
“Competition breeds envy. Envy makes yourself your own enemy. Envy's catty cousin is schadenfreude which means taking pleasure in the suffering of others. When we derive joy from other people's failures, we're holding our houses and pride on the rocky foundation of someone else's imperfection or bad luck. That is not steady ground. When we find ourselves judging others, we should take note. It's a signal that our minds are tricking us into thinking we're moving forward when in truth, we are stuck.”
Source: Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day
“Competition breeds excellence, including in the GOP race.”
“Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people”
“Competition can be the most nerve-racking experience. Some people just thrive on it.”
“Competition can be viewed in two ways. It can be viewed in a negative light and be seen as destructive, but one can also have the view that it is competition that drives people and institutions to higher and higher levels of excellence and, therefore, to more and more opportunity.”
“Competition can damage self-esteem, create anxiety, and lead to cheating and hurt feelings. But so can romantic love.”
“Competition cannot touch you when your vibe is ultra high.”
“Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.”
Source: Compassion Versus Guilt and Other Essays
“Competition does not drive me. I do things better for pleasure and without trying. I mistakenly studied difficult subjects that were no use to me when I might have studied the arts for pleasure, which would have smoothed my path. I wasted time trying to be good at math. I taught myself the things that mattered to me most: to write and to take pictures.”
Source: Autoportrait