I think every album you have, especially if it's done well, you feel like you're competing with yourself.
Olympic athletes have to find a job right after they're done competing.
You can't compete with Walmart. But you can have smaller businesses that are successful.
I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.
Many training programs and often schools focus on just a skill or a kind of work competency. That's only half the equation.
If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.
I have people say, 'I'll come to work for you for free,' and I tell my employees they have to compete with that.
No one can make me work harder than I do, so I'm generally not interested in who I am competing with.
Yet I am incapable of writing the only kind of novel which interests me: a book powered with an intellectual or moral passion strong enough to create order, to create a new way of looking at life. It is because I am too diffused. I have decided never...
History, practical experience, common sense and economic theory all agree: economic competition is probably one of the greatest ideas humans ever came up with. When people compete to achieve the same goal, great things seem to happen that otherwise w...
Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
Every newspaper in the country covers stories that other newspapers cover. Every industry is filled with people who are competing to do the best job providing a particular service.
Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.
But the best teams I've encountered have one important thing in common: their team structure and processes cover a full range of distinct competencies necessary for success.
'Argo,' 'Lincoln,' and 'Zero Dark Thirty,' three films honored with Best Picture Oscar nominations, lionize their Washington-anchored protagonists as crafty, competent, and virtually incorruptible.
The night before I compete, I like to have steak. Meat is especially important for female athletes because it provides them with the nutrients they need to perform at their best.
Intrinsic values and qualities are age-free. For example, social competencies or a good heart.
Flair is what makes the difference between artistry and mere competence. Cmdr. William Riker
My comeback was not about winning or losing; it was about the feeling of being able to compete at top level again.
Evil and I are old adversaries. When we compete I hate to lose," Manny Bettencourt from Murder in the Pinelands
One of the main techniques I used was focusing on the goal and visualising myself competing in the race before the race started.
