"Unlimited competition leads to a huge waste of labor, and to that crippling of the social consciousness of individuals."
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"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."
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"When you're training for jiu-jitsu, particularly if you're training for a competition, you have to be pretty prescribed in the variety of what you eat."
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"In school I really loved Shakespeare, and I participated in a country-wide Shakespeare competition."
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"Stocks of companies selling commodity-like products should come with a warning label: "Competition may prove hazardous to human wealth"."
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"Love is co-operation rather than competition."
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"When you move into a spiritual approach to life you begin to see yourself as connected to everyone and everything, and competition is replaced by something called cooperation."
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"I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can't see myself in competition, you know, with second or third generation rock stars."
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"DJs are in incredible competition, musically. And they are the most musically creative and sensitive people in all the music charts. I am amazed how they are."
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"If I looked at every other girl in the entertainment industry as competition, my life would be really lonely. I wouldn't have some of the coolest friends that I'm so glad I've gotten to know."
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"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."
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"Katarina Witt. She was the ultimate competitor. She would just stare down people before competition. She was relentless on the ice."
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"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."
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"the time for prizes and competitions at art festivals is over. Competition is too closely tied to values that are alien to the arts."
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"Having always observed that public works are much less advantageously managed than the same are by private hands, I have thought it better for the public to go to market for whatever it wants which is to be found there; for there competition brings it down to the minimum value."
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"Before you go into what is essentially a competition, you have to have that confidence. You have to ask yourself, "Are they looking for a guy my height? My age? I've got a shot." And if there are nine guys auditioning and they're all gorgeous, I have an advantage, because gorgeous guys are a dime a dozen. But if they need someone else - like a goofy guy with bad hair who is just okay - then that's me. And finally, the other 2 percent who audition are geniuses that I could never touch."
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"The filmmakers aren't running the studios anymore. Sometimes people who like films are making them, but by and large, they have to go report quarterly earnings and all that stuff. The competition is so huge that it's very hard to get people to show up to see any movie in the theater, much less an original one that isn't a version of something else they saw."
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"I've got a couple of things over [ Wladimir Klitschko]: He wouldn't spar with me when I went to the camp and I beat him in a mental toughness competition in the sauna."
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"We learn not for life but for the debating-room."
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"Playing the game is a form of winning the game. In those competitions, we win by being resilient."
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