- Nov 07, 2020
Competition Quotes
On rivalry, self-competition, and contests both small and large.
Competition appears here at very different scales - a mayor comparing notes with neighboring cities, and the old idea that the only competition worth taking seriously is with yourself. See also Best quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Commonly
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- Nov 07, 2020
The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, there is a lot of competition for places at Liverpool but that's the same at every top club. It was like that when I was at Ajax and that isn't a problem for me.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I won the speech competition in class, and I always say this was my first 'spoken word performance.' It was the first time I got on stage and recited something. I fell in love with the stage at the age of 12.
- Necessary
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- Nov 07, 2020
Value is consequently the necessary theoretical starting point whence we can elucidate the peculiar phenomenon of prices resulting from capitalist competition.
- Equal
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- Nov 07, 2020
As soon, however, as capitalist competition has definitively established the equal rate of profit, that rate becomes the starting point for the calculations of the capitalists in the investment of capital in newly-created branches of production.
- Excited
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- Nov 07, 2020
Coming to Crystal Palace, I'm really excited to be playing. There's still massive competition here.
- Professional
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- Nov 07, 2020
In any professional level competition, soccer players, you've got to know when to stop.
- Respect
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- Nov 07, 2020
I respect my competition.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was about 12, I spent the summer writing four plays on my dad's old typewriter for a school play competition. And I wrote little comic bits at secondary school and at university.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I joined a campus competition, as I felt I could do comedy, and I won. Then I started doing standup gigs in 2009 while completing my law degree, but I never told my parents. They only discovered a few years later.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
What happened was, in my final year of university in Australia, there was a campus comedy competition, and I felt like it was something I could do. I won that competition, and I kept doing it, and I couldn't get a job in law. So I just kept doing comedy.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In our industry, there are so many competing companies and games, and they have people constantly out spying on competition. For example, Valve in Seattle tries to keep their location a secret.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did a gig as a standup when I was eight years old. I went on holiday with my family to this holiday camp and they had a talent competition and I entered as a standup.
- Used
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- Nov 07, 2020