We last longer if we compete against ourselves for the good of others instead of competing against others for the good of ourselves.
I'm competing with everyone, but it's okay because they're not aware. I can't shut that impulse off. And I'm glad, because that impulse keeps me on the treadmill. If I didn't have it, I would be like, "Great! Ten minutes! I'm good. " But if I'm competing, I can see what level someone's on and I can top it.
I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well
Lack of resources (payroll), time and competing priorities are why so many nonprofits haven't done well. It's that simple.
1 of the hardest parts about being a founder, is that there are a 100 important things competing for your attention each day.
It was the most emphatic display of selflessness I have seen on a football field. Pounding over every blade of grass, competing if he would rather die of exhaustion than lose, he inspired all around him. I felt such an honor to be associated with such a player.
The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it.
I have no social life. There is no time for one. Once in a while I may go to dinner with a friend but that is it. However I am much happier travelling and being busy competing in both my sports than having time off.
I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment.
The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.
Economists often define their discipline as "the allocation of scarce resources among competing ends. " But when resources or money really become scarce, economists call it a crisis and say that it's a question for politicians, not their own department.
The challenge in Iraq is to provide a security plan such that a political process can go forward. I'm sure you all are tired of hearing me say 12 million Iraqi voted. But it's an indication about the desire for people to live in a free society. That's what that means. The only way to defeat Al Qaida ideology in the long term is to defeat it through another ideology, a competing ideology, one that - where government responds to the will of the people.
I remove a lot of the pressure from myself by saying I'm not competing with my parents. They are the persons who taught me my ideology. They actively practiced what they preached. They're the exemplars and the role models. So how does one compete with a mentor?
Messi won 3 Ballons d'Or and is competing for another one. He will be the best player in the world until he retires.
When you have two competing theories that make exactly the same predictions, the simpler one is the better.
Governing involves choosing and making choices between competing goods.
Conflicts often stem from a couple of leaders on both sides that are badly brought up. They'd rather go to war than compromise. And in business, you're competing with other companies all the time, but you don't end up going to war with each other.
The first mistake is believing that transformational initiatives can be accomplished through normal channels and means. This cannot be done because there are too many conflicting interests that are competing to impede. The second is mistaking incubation for transformation and concluding that failure to achieve escape velocity is due to lack of innovation. It never is. It is always do to lack of leadership focus and, especially, fortitude.
Local competing businesses were thereby losing revenue.
I look forward to competing.