“It would clearly not be an improvement to build all houses exactly alike in order to create a perfect market for houses, and the same is true of most other fields where differences between the individual products prevent competition from ever being perfect.” OrderHouseIndividualDifferencesPerfectFieldsProductsCompetitionImprovement Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“Just for the record, I'm in favor of drug testing EVERY year just as long as it's a level playing field. The problem arises that a lot of these substances are hard to detect. So, it's very difficult to have true, drug-free bodybuilding competition, especially on the professional level.” YearsLongHardProblemDifficultLevelsRecordsFieldsDrugCompetitionFavorsAriseSubstanceTestingBodybuildingPlaying FieldsLevel Playing FieldDrug FreeDrug Testing Author:Lee Labrada
“I think that when young players really see their game rise next level, it's when practices are like competition and there's no separation there. Of course, there are adrenaline and the butterflies; you don't have that so much in practice. You want to fake yourself out and try to get them there because you want to be as close to that game mentality as you can when you step on that field every single day whether it's practice or in your backyard or down the street with your dad.” ThinkingWantTryingYoungCoursesNextGamesLevelsStepsPracticePlayerStreetsFieldsDadCompetitionSeparationFakeMentalityButterflyAdrenalineBackyardsNext LevelYour Dad Author:Jennie Finch
“Mothers seem to be in subtle competition with teachers. There is always an underlying fear that teachers will do a better job thanthey have done with their child.... But mostly mothers feel that their areas of competence are very much similar to those of the teacher. In fact they feel they know their child better than anyone else and that the teacher doesn't possess any special field of authority or expertise.” KnowsFeelsChildrenDoneFactsSeemsJobsMotherTeacherSpecialFieldsAuthorityAreasCompetitionSubtleCompetenceExpertiseBetter Jobs Book:Worlds apart: relationships between families and schools Source: Worlds apart: relationships between families and schools
“Many of us in the West have come to feel that the development of technology in the military and economic fields has produced a single world in which the central problems, both military and economic, are going to require co-operation rather than continued confrontation and competition.” WorldFeelsProblemTechnologyEconomicMilitaryFieldsDevelopmentCompetitionWestOperationsConfrontationDevelopment Of Technology Author:Denis Healey
“Because the sport has changed, competition is not only stronger but it's deeper throughout the field than it's ever been. It's harder to win.” WinningSportsFieldsChangedHarderStrongerCompetitionDeeper Author:Jeff Gordon
“In the whole history of capitalism, no one has been able to establish a coercive monopoly by means of competition in a free market...Every single coercive monopoly that exists or ever has existed...was created and made possible only by an act of government...which granted special privileges (not obtainable in a free market) to a man or a group of men, and forbade all others to enter that particular field.” MenMeanHas BeensMadeWholeGovernmentAbleGroupsSpecialFieldsParticularCapitalismCompetitionPrivilegeGrantedFree MarketMonopoly Author:Nathaniel Branden
“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.” ConditionsFieldsCompetitionDisasterIntenseBuriedEquityBad Business Author:Charlie Munger
“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.” IfsWantFeelsImportantHardFeelingsActorsFieldsIndustryHorseCompetitionStudiosHard TimesRacingSympatheticHorse Racing Author:Alan Arkin
“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.” CountryFallEconomicWorstEffectsFieldsDevelopmentEconomicsCompetitionWestCriticalFall BackSuppressingEconomic Competition Author:Stefan Heym
“Renewable energy fits well into the conservative mindset by allowing competition into the energy markets so that consumers have choice. The system as it is, with big utilities monopolizing the energy playing field or fossil fuel energy being given massive subsidies so that they are on a kind of corporate welfare, is the antithesis of conservative principles.” WellsKindBigsChoicesEnergyGivenPrinciplesFieldsFitCompetitionConservativeMindsetConsumersCorporateWelfareFuelMassiveAllowingFossilsUtilityFossil FuelRenewable EnergyPlaying FieldsSubsidiesAntithesisMonopolizing Author:Mark Ruffalo
“Doping in English football is restricted to lager and baked beans with sausages. After which the players take to the field, belching and farting. English football culture is one of pure, intense competition, and that's why I have always preferred it to Italy.” CulturePlayerFieldsFootballPureCompetitionIntenseBeansSausageDopingEnglish FootballLagerBelchingBaked Beans Author:Paolo Di Canio
“Veterans get priority in the training room and better parking, but there is not a whole lot of difference in terms of how they're treated in the competition for playing time. To me it doesn't matter if a guy is a 10-year veteran or a rookie. If the rookie is better, he finds his way onto the field.” IfsWayYearsMatterWholeGuyTermDifferencesRoomsFieldsTrainingCompetitionPrioritiesTreatedVeteranParkingRookies Author:Brendan Daly
“I think baseball has moved on in many ways and the focus on the competitions on the field is really what the game is all about. It seems to be healthy. It seems more people are watching it.” PeopleThinkingWaySeemsGamesFocusFieldsHealthyBaseballMovedCompetitionMoved On Author:Cal Ripken, Jr.