If you don't take enough math classes or science classes or writing intensive classes, you're not going to be prepared to compete in college or the workplace -- no matter what your diploma says.
There's so many wonderful gospel people out there, and I don't necessarily want to compete with those people.
I was always the funny-looking girl. I couldn't compete with the Brazilian girls. My nose is off, my ears are too big. But I think it's my personality that these designers were drawn to.
Where we can compete on merit, we do very well.
If you start a chocolate company, you can't compete with Cadbury in the first ten years because they are a big company.
Don't steal; thou'lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
When we seek to complete rather than compete, it's so much easier to cheer each other on.
When you compete with good people, it makes everybody better.
The Chinese are not stupid people. They're very smart people. They told me very, very distinctly that they cannot believe how stupid our representatives are in the United States. They cannot believe that they can continue to take all our jobs - you know, through the manipulation of the currency, of their currency, they make it almost impossible for our great companies to compete.
If we continue to think and live as if we belong only to different cultures and different religions, with separate missions and goals, we will always be in self-defeating competition with each other. Once we realize we are all members of humanity, we will want to compete in the spirit of love.
Our moral sense really evolved to bind groups together into teams that can cooperate in order to compete with other teams.
I'm a catalogue artist: I compete with Bob Dylan.
For me, the hardest part of an injury is watching the races go by that I had hoped to compete in. The only thing that makes it easier is thinking of how certain struggles make other accomplishments mean so much.
If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.
We have not come to compete with one another. We have come to complete one another.
Actually I don't choose to expose myself in public. I choose to compete; the other side just comes with the package.
I'm not afraid to compete. It's just the opposite. Don't you see that? I'm afraid I will compete — that's what scares me. That's why I quit the Theatre Department. Just because I'm so horribly conditioned to accept everybody else's values, and just because I like applause and people to rave about me, doesn't make it right. I'm ashamed of it. I'm sick of it. I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I'm sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of a splash.
The most important part of this is to prepare the athlete for life in general and then be able to compete.
When I was young I wanted to be a gymnast. I used to compete at it, but then I grew too tall.
We last longer if we compete against ourselves for the good of others instead of competing against others for the good of ourselves.