She had never done these things before; she did them expertly. She had a capacity for action, a competence that clashed incongruously with her appearance.
You don't have to be a hero to accomplish great things---to compete. You can just be an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.
Why compete with others? Each individual has a unique gifts and role to perform. We must learn to complement each other.
At its best, cinema does retain a remarkable ability to speak to people of every age, from every background, and in ways that almost any other art form in popular culture struggles to compete with.
Boys with a 'failure to launch' are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete.
There are already plenty of people who will take a firm stand on the need to be competely impartial between right and wrong.
A woman who's self confident doesn't need to compete with other females. She knows her worth and lives a purpose filled life.
Brand and product don’t compete. Brand is product, and everything else conforming to the unique story that consumers create when they think of you.
You don’t have to compete with any one. Seek to outdo your own performance. You will always be happy.
Second place is twice as good as first place, when you’re competing to put another person first. Losers make the best lovers.
Not everyone is born a great leader, but anyone can foster core leadership competencies for themselves and become actionable, effective leaders.
In sport, if you want to be the best you have to compete against the best - I would much rather have come tenth and be judged against everyone than come first and be judged against just a few.
I want to thank all the fans for their support over the years. Keep supporting the Knicks, we're moving in the right direction here and we will be exciting to watch and competing against the best in the NBA. Come back to the Garden for those exciting...
Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.
Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence.
All religious believers should be licensed to make sure that they are competent to hold opinions and viewpoints and that they don't believe in just any old thing, such as creationism or a flat tax.
The Athletic Association competed against the University. So there was an event. You cannot break world records unless it is an established event, and you have three timekeepers, and the whole thing is organized.
The tech community is a closely knit group, which is why it's so powerful. All of these companies have an affinity for each other, even if they compete with each other.
That's an economic development program in the metropolitan area. If they don't see that, and you don't get these things done, then you're competing with Texas and California and Atlanta; then you really have problems.
When I have to compete with John Coltrane and Miles Davis and Louie Armstrong on iTunes, which I'm doing now, that's a problem. That means that jazz is not being heard by younger audiences.
I had 10 to 12 close buddies who I played ball with all the way from elementary to high school. That is where I learned to compete.
