As a competitive gymnast, my life has always been filled with challenges that would ultimately define my future. From day one, I was taught to be prepared at all costs.
The future of Norway isn't about competing on being the cheapest but the most innovative. We have an expensive welfare state, and the only answer to continue that way is to become more competitive, especially on knowledge.
Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are, we are measuring them only by the standard of whether they will be future deficits or assets for our nation's competitive needs.
History shows one important fact: the results of competitive special elections from Hawaii to New York are poor indicators of broader trends or future general election outcomes.
While I was there I became deeply interested in photography, and indeed the most noteworthy event in my early life was winning first, third, fourth and seventh prizes in an international competition for college and high school students.
I don't want to compete. I want to skate for the joy. I get so nervous in competition. I get always sick. I had pressures enough in my life from skating.
I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.
You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.
When you work with a DeNiro or Hoffman, they love what they do so much that there's never any competitive vibe. It's more about how do we do this thing together.
Life is not a competition between you and others; rather, it's a journey to continuously make the very best out of your true abilities in life.
Don't complicate your life by surrounding yourself with people who see life as a competition about who has the most material possessions.
We should reconsider greater integration of North America to achieve a region that is more competitive and capable of creating more jobs.
They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers.
Canon is basically a very aggressive company. Our company works on competitive principles. It does not treat people equally, but it does treat them fairly.
I tried the broadcasting thing, the coaching thing, but I'll never replace the competitive feeling of being out on the field when we were players.
I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to.
My niece was born with cystic fibrosis 15 years ago, and she's incredibly healthy and an incredible competitive dancer, so I'm going to do some events for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
It's hard to build a brand, competitively, and tell people what you do as well.
But, no, I don't think there will be any kind of problem as far as setting up to be competitive, but you've got to get it right if you want to be the first one across the line.
I wish we could launch a ground-breaking competition that motivates kids to invent new ideas in sustainable living.
It's a difficult competition against silence, because silence is a perfect language, the only language which says with no words.
