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The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself. (Washington Allston)
I'm only in competition with my last level. (Erykah Badu)
Competitions are for horses, not artists. (Bela Bartok)
Look around at the competition, beat the competition in price, and make your stuff better than the competition. (Lucy Bates)
Competition is a process or variety of habitual behavior that grows out of a habit of mind. (Willard Beecher)
notoriety, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity. (Ambrose Bierce)
No, not competition, community. (Jan Blencowe)
Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity. (Daniel Burrus)
Some people don't like competition because it makes them work harder, better. (Drew Carey)
Art is the increasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers – and never succeeding. (Marc Chagall)
Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition. (Henry Clay)
If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence. (Barbara Cook)
If you're too busy worrying about the competition, you don't focus enough on what you're doing. (Katie Couric)
I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it. (Walt Disney)
Competition among rival groups of "primitive" people pushed artisans into new heights of complexity, i.e., art. (Lloyd Dykk)
Competition is always a fantastic thing, and the computer industry is intensely competitive. (Bill Gates)
Our human landscape is overburdened with competitions and contests. Art need not be a contest. Art is a personal quest for quality. Quality is the forerunner of acceptance. Character is the forerunner of quality. Be your own discriminating connoisseur. (Robert Genn)
The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage. (Arie de Geus)
Prizes are nice, but the real competition is with your performance yesterday. (Irwin Greenberg)
I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy. (Ernest Hemingway)
I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends; we're all good friends. (Jim Henson)
The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living. (Thomas Hobbes)
When we are in competition with ourselves, and match our todays against our yesterdays, we derive encouragement from past misfortunes and blemishes. Moreover, the competition with ourselves leaves unimpaired our benevolence toward our fellow men. (Eric Hoffer)
The key is to make mistakes faster than the competition, so you have more chances to learn and win. (John W. Holt, Jr.)
The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition. (William van Horne)
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there's so little competition. (Elbert Hubbard)
Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition – in having put forth the best within you. (Henry J. Kaiser)
Global competition is about winners and losers. (David Korten)
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Competition is very good... as long as it's healthy. It's what makes one strive to be better. (Christine Lahti)
Champions do all the time what others think about doing occasionally! (John Di Lemme)
Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick. (George Leonard)
Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built. (Daniel Libeskind)
Competitions are what you do as a good exercise. (Maya Lin)
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Just remember that if you're not working at your game to the utmost of your ability, there will be someone out there somewhere with equal ability who is. And one day you'll play each other, and he'll have the advantage. (Ed Macauley)
Competition helps people figure it out. (Brian McBride)
The unfair thing about competition is the disproportionate number of winner to losers... unless you only compete against yourself. (Kenneth Moore)
In the music industry, you are in competition with everyone. (Mandy Moore)
Artists shouldn't enter the arena of competitions until they are tough enough to realize it is only opinion and not a reflection on their worth. It is equally dangerous to lull yourself into thinking you are 'great' just because you get into or place in a show. (Mary Moquin)
Never compete, create. (Earl Nightingale)
A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace. (Ovid)
Art, at its best, is not a competition to outdo others or even ourselves. The focus is more appropriately channeled to reveal our hearts and to hint at the illumination of life that is mysterious and larger in spirit than in any single work of art. (Gregory Packard)
The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting in above average effort. (Colin Powell)
Competition is the whetstone of talent. (Traditional proverb)
Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. (Ayn Rand)
I personally like the competition – it makes me work harder. (Claudia Roulier)
Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches. (John Ruskin)
All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost – the most legitimate – passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one. (Marquis de Sade)
Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people. (David Sarnoff)
Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good as someone else. (William Saroyan)
The way to get things done is to stimulate competition. I do not mean in a sordid, money-getting way, but in the desire to excel. (Charles Schwab)
An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God. (Patti Smith)
The competition is so fierce once you become an adult. I'll probably move on to something else. (Jodie Sweetin)
Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement. (Tacitus)
Besides winning, the most fun thing is getting out there and mixing it up with friends; it's the competition. (Al Unser, Jr.)
We can't worry about competition. Besides, we aren't competing with anyone but ourselves. (Chris Wedge)
When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition. (Katarina Witt)
Competition is for the competent. (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi)
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