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“There will be a competition among critics for the best Paris Hilton insult. Here's my first: Her attention span is so short that she can't even maintain her concentration while running away from a psycho... Maybe the ultimate insult is that she makes her co-star Elisha Cuthbert seem, by comparison, the sexiest and most interesting actress in modern cinema.”

“When you run a race, you hurt your ability to compete when you turn your head to look at the competition chasing you, you lose a step physically and psychologically. Run the race always stretching to do your best, imitations will come in last, no one can catch an original.”

Looks Running Lasts Turns Loses Hurt Ability Race Steps Originals Competition Imitation Chasing Stretching

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“Only in situations where competition is illegal will competition not act naturally to bring the best product at the lowest price to the consumer.”

Situation Products Competition Consumers Illegal Lowest

Author:John Pugsley

“Monopoly power is an illusion in any system in which free competition is allowed.”

Illusion Competition Monopoly Monopoly Power

Author:John Pugsley

“Competition is a tough weed, not a delicate flower.”

Flower Tough Competition Weed Delicate Delicate Flower

Author:George Stigler

“Narrative and metaphysics alike become flimsy and frivolous if they venture too far from the home base of all humanism - the single, simple human life that we all more or less lead, with its crude elementals of nurture and appetite, love and competition, the sunshine of well-being and the inevitable night of death. We each live this tale. Fiction has no reason to be embarrassed about telling the same story again and again, since we all, with infinite variations, experience the same story.”

“You must buy on the way down. There is far more volume on the way down than on the way back up, and far less competition among buyers. It is almost always better to be too early than too late, but you must be prepared for price markdowns on what you buy.”

Way Late Competition Prepared Too Late Volume Be Prepared Buyers

Author:Seth Klarman

“I definitely don't feel a sense of jealousy or competition, and that's a really good feeling.”

Feels Feelings Competition Good Feeling

Author:Ariel Pink

“I'm afraind of losing my sense of trying to always be better. I love competition against myself.”

Trying Losing Competition

Author:Cory Arcangel

“The Constitution never even mentions political parties, let alone the Republican and Democratic parties, yet all the election laws help to protect them from competition.”

Helping Law Political Party Republican Protect Constitution Election Competition Democratic Political Parties Democratic Party

Author:Bob Barr

“I love the chameleon nature of this business [acting]. I always have. Sometimes I'm not as recognizable as somebody else and I may not have gotten a role, but for me, acting is not a competition. I've just kept my head down and kept working, and had the great pleasure of working with some amazing people and playing some extraordinary and extreme characters.”

People May Sometimes Character Pleasure Acting Roles Down And Competition Extraordinary Extremes Chameleon Amazing People

Author:Ray Stevenson

“I don't like to put people in a competition to defeat the other.”

People Competition Defeat

Author:Michel Gondry

“We still find, especially in parts of academe, the damaging notion that everything is a struggle for power, or being empowered, or hegemony, or oppression: and that all competition is a zero-sum game. This is not more than repetition of Lenin's destructive doctrine. Intellectually, it is reductionism; politically, it is fanaticism.”

Stills Games Struggle Competition Notion Doctrine Oppression Destructive Zero Repetition Empowered Fanaticism Hegemony Reductionism Zero Sum Game

Author:Robert Conquest

“Complexity - limits competition.”

Limits Competition Complexity

Author:Seth Klarman

“We may well have a competitive advantage buying decent businesses at decent prices. But they won't be fabulous businesses and fabulous prices. There's too much competition and money out there, with many buyout specialists.”

Wells May Too Much Advantage Competition Decent Buying Fabulous Specialists Competitive Advantage

Author:Charlie Munger

“The effect of capitalism is to steer human selfishness so that, through the invisible hand of competition, the energies of the capitalist produce the abundance from which the whole society benefits.”

Humans Whole Hands Energy Effects Produce Benefits Capitalism Competition Invisible Selfishness Abundance Capitalist Steers Invisible Hand

Book:What's So Great About Christianity

Source: What's So Great About Christianity

“The sharper the competition, the better it serves its social function to improve economic production.”

Social Economic Function Competition Productions

Author:Ludwig von Mises

“The Founding Fathers set up a system that heavily relied upon self-reliance and competition, with only a small dose of government intrusion.”

Self Government Father Competition Self Reliance Founding Reliance Dose Intrusion

Author:Bill O'Reilly

“Certain rich men, whose lives are evil and corrupt, are the representatives of predatory wealth accumulated by all forms of inequity, from the oppression of wage workers to unfair methods of crushing out competition.”

Men Form Certain Evil Wealth Rich Method Competition Workers Oppression Crush Representatives Unfair Rich Man Predatory

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“As Bartok put it so succinctly: "Competitions are for horses." Nothing could be more barbaric that the practice or ranking artists as though they were divers or figure skaters....What one suspects is that the appetite for dividing the world into winners and losers, anointed and anonymous, is so compulsive that it feeds with special, vindictive hunger on the most elusive and ephemeral of subjects. For if music can be reduced to games of power and success, then innocence-love without profit-can be dealt a crushing blow.”

“Complexity and obscurity have professional value - they are the academic equivalents of apprenticeship rules in the building trades. They exclude the outsiders, keep down the competition, preserve the image of a privileged or priestly class. The man who makes things clear is a scab. He is criticized less for his clarity than for his treachery.”

Men Values Class Clear Building He Man Trade Competition Clarity Preserves Complexity Academic Outsiders Privileged Obscurity Treachery Apprenticeship Scabs

Book:Annals of an Abiding Liberal

Source: Annals of an Abiding Liberal

“In the LBO field there is a buried "covariance" with marketable equities, toward disaster in generally bad business conditions, and competition is now extremely intense.”

Conditions Fields Competition Disaster Intense Buried Equity Bad Business

Author:Charlie Munger

“I don't have too much interest in teaching other people how to get rich. And that isn't because I fear the competition or anything like that - Warrenhas always been very open about what he's learned, and I share that ethos. My personal behavior model is Lord Keynes: I wanted to get rich so I could be independent, and so I could do other things like give talks on the intersection of psychology and economics. I didn't want to turn it into a total obsession.”

“Let us show the world that a difference of opinion upon medical subjects is not incompatible with medical friendships; and in so doing, let us throw the whole odium of the hostility of physicians to each other upon their competition for business and money.”

World Whole Shows Differences Opinion Subjects Competition Medical Physicians Hostility Differences Of Opinion

Author:Benjamin Rush

“The real competition is against the little voice inside you that wants to quit”

“I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?”

Believe Artist Authority Competition Don't Believe Insane

Author:Alan Arkin

“I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.”

Thinking Country States India Competition Dynamics

Author:Bill Gates

“I had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other. I see how the industry and the studios feel it’s important, but I don’t really have a feeling for being in competition. I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.”

Ifs Want Feels Important Hard Feelings Actors Fields Industry Horse Competition Studios Hard Times Racing Sympathetic Horse Racing

Author:Alan Arkin

“If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn't be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers.”

Ifs Different Would Be Company Design Type Creating Competition Available Variety Consumers Expensive Electric Outlets Plugs Appliances

Author:Bill Gates

“In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system.”

Years Humans Wells Long Running Competition Long Runs Education System Indicators

Author:Bill Gates

“I grew up in dance studios. I was forced to be in several numbers in recitals and dance competitions. I took one tap class - literally one class - and then I quit.”

Numbers Class Grew Grew Up Competition Studios Quitting I Quit Recitals

Author:Michael Angarano

“For the last 15 years that I have been performing, all I ever wanted to do was transcend poetry to the world. See, it wasn't enough for me to write a book. It wasn't enough for me to join a slam competition, and while those things hold weight, it wasn't the driving force that pushes the pen to the pad.”

World Writing Years Has Beens Book Enough Wanted Lasts Force Weight Competition Driving Performing Pens Slam Pads Driving Force

Author:Lemon Andersen

“You do a period of go-karting until you're at the age of qualifying for a ride in a 'school-kart,' then you qualify for driving school. And several of the driving schools have a competition series for their own students.”

Age School Students Periods Competition Series Driving Qualifying

Author:Mario Andretti

“What I like to talk about, and what I have very little competition in terms of talking about, is the content of the psychedelic experience.”

Littles Term Talking Competition Psychedelic Psychedelic Experience

Author:Terence McKenna

“Competition is overrated. In practice it is quite destructive and should be avoided wherever possible. Much better than fighting for scraps in existing markets is to create and own new ones.”

Should Fighting Practice Competition Destructive Avoided Scrap Overrated

Author:Peter Thiel

“Anyone who believes in the natural and inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is obliged to accept that individuals have the right to buy and sell alcohol. That's why all the regulations that people take for granted-the restrictions on hours of operation, the ban on Sunday sales, the minimum distance from schools and churches, the minimum age, and the protection of local wineries from competition by wineries in other states-are illegitimate.”

“I discovered early on that the player who learned the fundamentals of basketball is going to have a much better chance of succeeding and rising through the levels of competition than the player who was content to do things his own way. A player should be interested in learning why things are done a certain way. The reasons behind the teaching often go a long way to helping develop the skill.”

Source: The Wooden-Sharman method: a guide to winning basketball

“When you obsess about the customer, you end up defeating your competition as a byproduct. When you are just obsessed about the competition, you end up killing yourself, because you are not focused on the customer.”

Ends Competition Killing Customers Focused Obsessed Killing Yourself

Author:KR Sridhar

“My brother Billy was the joke teller. My brother Jim had a really sharp, cutting wit. And the teller of long stories, that was my brother Ed. As a child, I just absorbed everything they said, and I was always in competition for the laughs.”

Children Long Said Stories Laughing Cutting Brother Jokes Competition Wit My Brother They Said Long Story

Author:Stephen Colbert

“And one of the worst effects was that by suppressing critical thought, it also suppressed critical thought in the field of economics and hampered the development of economics - and the country would fall back further and further in the economic competition with the West.”

Country Fall Economic Worst Effects Fields Development Economics Competition West Critical Fall Back Suppressing Economic Competition

Author:Stefan Heym

“I got a little bit of a sense for the subculture, which is the equivalent of any subculture, really. The stakes are high, even if you live in a small town. It's like the annual bass fishing contests, or whatever it is. The stakes are always absurdly high, and this is no different. The competition at this butter carving things, from what I understand, is not that far off from what we're depicting in the movie.”

Ifs Littles Different Bits Little Bit Towns Competition Fishing Stakes Contests Small Town Bass Annuals Carving Subculture

Author:Ty Burrell

“We [me and my husband] both had our things. Seth was the artist, I was the singer. We were like "You do your thing, I'll do my thing and never the two shall meet." I think we had a healthy competition going through our childhood. But I sort of left the funny stuff to him, I said "You're the comedian, you're the jokester, you do that I'll be the more serious one." You need that kind of balance in the family.”

Thinking Needs Kind Said Two Artist Left Stuff Childhood Serious Like You Balance Healthy Husband Our Children Competition Singers Comedian My Husband Funny Stuff Healthy Competition

Author:Rachael MacFarlane

“My acting style and my physicality lends itself to doing things like putting a scene together for a dancing competition.”

Together Acting Style Scene Competition Dancing Physicality

Author:Chris Klein

“I watch all the classic films that film people say that you ought to have seen, and I try to watch things in the cinema when they come out, just to keep my eye on the competition. I'm bored when I'm not working.”

People Trying Eye Film Watches Ought Competition Bored Cinema Classic Classic Films

Author:Sam Riley

“Competition of praise inclineth to a reverence of antiquity. For men contend with the living, not with the dead.”

Men Praise Competition Reverence Antiquity

Book:Leviathan

Source: Leviathan

“The only thing that really inspired me for singing was the movie and musical 'Phantom of the Opera.' I went to see it in the theaters, and I loved it so much. And when I got home, I started singing the songs around the house, and my mom thought I was really good, so she asked me if I wanted to do a talent competition. And I said, 'Yes, definitely.'”

Ifs Said Home Wanted Song House Talent Mom Singing Theater Competition Inspired Musical My Mom Opera Phantoms

Author:Jackie Evancho

“A very awkward situation occurs often in New York City when you are walking down a relatively empty sidewalk and there happens to be a person walking right next to you in the same direction as you at the exact same pace as you. I never know whether to pass or draft. It becomes sort of a strange competition.”

Knows Persons Happens Next Cities Situation New York Strange Walking Empty Competition New York City Pace Awkward Sidewalk Awkward Situations

Author:Aaron Karo

“I never say "get like me". I would hate for my competition to be on my level. In fact, stay exactly with what your doing.”

Facts Hate Levels Competition Like Me

Author:Behdad Sami

“Don't work harder than your competition, be your own competition.”

Hard Work Harder Competition Work Harder

Author:Behdad Sami

“It's lonely at the top. Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for "realistic" goals, paradoxically making them the most time-consuming and energy consuming. It is easier to raise $10,000,000 than it is $1,000,000. It is easier to pick up the one perfect 10 in the bar than the five 8s.”

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