“One goes on writing partly because it is the only available way of earning a living. It is a hard way and highly competitive. My heart drops into my bowels when I enter a bookshop and see how fierce the competition is...There is also a privier reason for pushing on, and that is the hopeless hope that someday that intractable enemy language will yield to the struggle to control it... Mastery never comes, and one serves a lifelong apprenticeship. The writer cannot retire from the battle; he dies fighting.” WayWritingHeartHardReasonDiesFightingLanguageEnemyStruggleGoes OnMy HeartBattleCompetitionAvailableSomedayPushingHopelessYieldRetiringMasteryFierceEarningLifelongHard WayBookshopsApprenticeshipBowelsEarning A LivingPushing On Author:Anthony Burgess
“The music as a whole is selfish, but the musicians aren't," "The song may go on forever but it's not about competition within the band; it's about playing as a band.” MayWholeSongForeverGoes OnBandMusicianCompetitionSelfish Author:Joshua Homme
“When a major airline goes on a route that a new entrant has gone into, reduces fares, increases capacity, and then when the new entrant goes off, they leave the route, that's not competition.” GoneGoes OnMajorsCapacityIncreaseCompetitionRoutesAirline Author:John McCain
“I think it might be harder for a young comic because there's so much more competition. There's more people trying to do it and there are less rooms. Seriously. The way people do anything now is by getting press - some scandal. It's awful. Somebody has to go on a rooftop with a rifle and they get their own sitcom. It's disgusting.” PeopleThinkingWayTryingMightYoungRoomsGoes OnHarderPressesCompetitionAwfulComicDisgustingScandalSitcomRiflesRooftops Author:Judy Tenuta
“So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.” IfsMeanLongArtLastsPoliticalDiesPoliticsGoes OnCivilizationArt IsCompetitionProductionsDoomedDegradationAggravationLife Goes On Book:The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris Source: The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris