Competition Quotations | Page 4

It's a difficult competition against silence, because silence is a perfect language, the only language which says with no words.

I'm a big fan of all those singing competition shows.

There is plenty of competition in a Glasser Quality School in that there is winning but no losing.

It seems always to have been difficult to have been a New York Philharmonic conductor because of the nature of New York. We are in direct competition with the great orchestras in the world who come to play in our hall or in Carnegie, and we are constantly compared. I think that 's a good thing.

You can't put yourself into competition with a magazine like 'Vogue.' You have to create something new, something different.

In America, we believe that competition strengthens us.

There's competition in every field, and that's healthy. It makes you work harder and be your best. Competition, not in terms of money or number of projects, but in the quality of your work, is very healthy.

Whenever you face a man who's playing your instrument, there's a competition.

I was never going to give Mariah Carey any competition.

In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work for a writer. You can't put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well.

There is a charm in making a stew, to the unaccustomed cook, from the excitement of wondering what the result will be, and whether any flavour save that of onions will survive the competition in the mixture.

I'm a catalogue artist: I compete with Bob Dylan.

When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I was 8. I remember I shot around 125.

We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.

I don't try to be a threat to MicroSoft, mainly because I don't really see MS as competition. Especially not Windows-the goals of Linux and Windows are simply so different.

I'm hooked on food competition shows. It's unique, different... I definitely understand the importance of strategy.

I was kind of freaked out by the art world in the 1980s. Just the money thing. All the competition over artists.

I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can't see myself in competition, you know, with second or third generation rock stars.

I am much more passionate about cities than I am about nations. The competition between cities is more civilised than between nations. There is an understanding there.

Kitchen competition shows are so action-packed. They just get your adrenaline pumping.

Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.

I've been around where I knew other actors were going to steal the scene, and I don't compete with them.

You've got to stay current and up with the competition. The main thing, though, is finding the greatest songs you can possibly find.

You do a period of go-karting until you're at the age of qualifying for a ride in a 'school-kart,' then you qualify for driving school. And several of the driving schools have a competition series for their own students.

Automotive franchise laws were put in place decades ago to prevent a manufacturer from unfairly opening stores in direct competition with an existing franchise dealer that had already invested time, money and effort to open and promote their business.

Our government needs to adopt a pro-market agenda that doesn't pick winners and losers, but it invites competition and it levels the playing field for everyone.

When I was in kindergarten, I entered a competition and read 52 books in a week.

I want Infosys to be a company which is globally respected and in where people belonging to different nationalities, races and religious beliefs will work with intense competition but utmost courtesy, dignity and co-operation in adding greater value to our stakeholders day after day.

In New York, the former lack of real competition allowed taxis to extract excessive charges, regardless of the poor service.

I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?

My parents had this incredibly vital relationship with an audience, like muscle with blood. This was the main competition I had for my parents' attention: an audience.

Financial news services and other media organizations get press releases 15 minutes before they are distributed to the general public, fueling a furious competition among the news services to rewrite them for their subscribers during their window of exclusivity.

In a climate of tight budgets, reduced workforces and stiff competition, internal training can be a great substitute for costly offsite workshops and conferences.

I don't think Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell fear competition from me in their arena.

I sang a lot as a little girl and entered competitions. I loved singing in choirs, but it was as I got older that I really found my voice.

If you ever want to know why I'm not on a record label, look at 'The X Factor!' Honestly, of all the people that strive to break barriers in music and do good things and write great lyrics, not one of them would ever pass the first round on any of these competitions.

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument, its function is to make the worse appear the better article. A confused competition of all propagandas -- those insults to human nature -- is carried on by the most expert psychological methods -- for instance, by always repeating a lie.

Believing that your competition is stronger and better than you pushes you to better yourselves.

The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger the corporation, the more callous its heart. But unlike the state, corporations have competition and have no police powers.

I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition.

A competition of the best ideas - that should be what Congress is about.

The Internet ethos of diversity and competition runs exactly counter to uniform, gatekeeper-oriented medical culture - the technocratic philosophy of the 'one best way' embodied in our pharmaceutical regulations. On the Net, medical information is abundant, and pharmacies, domestic and foreign, operate on many different models.

If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best.

No one intimidates me because I'm not trying to do what you do, because I can't do what you do. I can only do what Mary J. Blige can do, so that relaxes me right there, and it gets me out of the competition and that whole thing.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

Real competition can drive up testosterone, which boosts libido.

I feel like my competition is everything else that's competing for people's attention, not just other print magazines, newspapers and cable. It's your kid's report card and the games you want to play, all the things that compete for people's time.

If I'd married someone in show business, there'd be too much competition.

The one thing we know for sure is when competition for something increases, the percentage of the market any one business has will decline.

The point of entry for the Starbucks experience has been much more a social experience (in China) rather than competition between coffee and tea,

The only competition that (Stafford) is doing right now is just trying to learn what to do. The other three guys, even four guys when you count (walk-on Nick) Dalton, have a lot better idea of what to do, even on the basics of calling the cadence. He's a talented passer. I think we all know that, and you can tell he's going full speed as far as trying to learn, but there's so much to learn in such a short amount of time.

We are proud to bring the Scripps National Spelling Bee to ABC for the first time in its storied, 79-year history. It's exciting for us as a network to bring this competition of some of America's brightest young minds to a broader audience.

We are pleased to have these renowned franchises represent the NBA in the most ambitious international competition in league history.

We've all heard that the competition is only getting tougher. But to address this, we can't just throw technology alone at the situation. But we can develop the most powerful handheld solutions to provide a real competitive advantage.

We are looking forward to a vibrant competition among politicians for these voters. No one owns them.

We believe that Take-Two overpaid for the license given the lack of exclusivity and relatively small size of the baseball category. The only winners here are the Players Association due to the size of the minimum guarantees, and first-party publishers due to the lack of future competition from EA Sports in the baseball genre.

We are at a crossroads. Will one dominant player be permitted to control those conditions, or will the rules that guarantee competition on the merits prevail, to the benefit of all?

There are concerns about rising competition and there is still more to come.

There are certainly a lot of things that we can shore up for Altoona. Williamsport gave us the competition we were looking for.

We still worry about next year, with fierce competition at the value end of the market, and...still look for a ceiling of around 800 million pounds on (fiscal year profits).

We?re in it to win it, but we?d be out there fighting the same way if we had never won anything. We don?t see it as pressure. We see it as competition, and competition is fun.

We started off slow also due to us not having the greatest competition come at us.

We started learning a new dive on platform before this competition and Steve had a little bit of a mental lapse in that he performed the new dive instead of what we had entered him to perform and thus automatically received no points on that dive. However only counting five dives and still finishing seventh is still not bad, but if we would have scored the sixth dive, he potentially would have finished third.

When you've got multiple players going after a property, like anything, you get increased competition and people tend to bid higher.

Information is power, particularly when the competition ignores the opportunity to do the same.

The sport of business is the ultimate competition. It's 7 × 24 × 365 × forever.

We believe that consumers perceive issues such as privacy and e-mail as part of the same problem -- consumer protection. They may be concerned about unwanted e-mail and how an e-mailer got their addresses. But they also like choice and competition and the occasional targeted pitch tailored to their interests.

We've always had good competition from Wilmington. They challenged us in the first game. We didn't want that to happen again.

We remain concerned that continued declines in PC pricing will continue to make PC revenue growth harder for Dell, ... We are lowering our PC growth estimates... We also expect Dell to face tougher competition in the enterprise hardware and services segments.

We're so much deeper, and there's so much more competition. Not only do coaches see it, but players see it as well. Any time you have some competition at a position, it really makes everyone a lot better.

We're going to see some excellent competition. It should be a really good day of wrestling.

We're going to put importance on the depth chart through the jerseys. We talked to the guys who have the white jerseys on offense and the crimson jerseys on defense about how you have to fight every day to hold on to those jerseys. We want it on their minds. We want to create an atmosphere that we have more competition that we've ever had.

We're going to have a good competition and that's what you want.

What always set Darrell apart was his competitiveness. He's one of the toughest kids I've ever seen.

What has been a strength the last two or three weeks with this team. We have personnel step in and help guys when they're not having a good a night as they wanted. We have 10 or 11 players help us. In practice, there is so much competition that guys realize that if they don't play the way they are capable, there is a guy there to do it and that is a plus for this team.

We can confirm the meeting is taking place and is part of the regular dialogue between Microsoft and the Commission on competition and a wide range of other subjects.

We find competition is more from interstate, probably Melbourne,

We bucked the industry trend and are maintaining a strong circulation story, ... We are strengthening our position against our competition in the East Bay ... the Chronicle and the Alameda newspapers.

Web sites are extremely important to the travel industry. Companies can benefit from the independent evaluation recognition of their online efforts that the award judges provide. That is the goal of the WebAward Competition - to provide a forum to recognize the people and organizations responsible for developing some of the most effective websites on the Net today.

Web sites are extremely important to the technology industry, ... Companies can benefit from the independent evaluation recognition of their online efforts that the award judges provide. That is the goal of the WebAward Competition - to provide a forum to recognize the people and organizations responsible for developing some of the most effective websites on the Net today.

Web sites are extremely important to the investment industry, ... Companies can benefit from the independent evaluation recognition of their online efforts that the award judges provide. That is the goal of the WebAward Competition - to provide a forum to recognize the people and organizations responsible for developing some of the most effective websites on the Net today.

We believe we have presented strong evidence through witness deposition, testimony and documents to support the government's case that Visa and MasterCard engaged in conduct that stifled competition and harmed consumers, ... The litigation team led by Melvin Schwarz did an outstanding job.

What makes Jeremy so valuable are his mental toughness and competitiveness,

United will have to address the issue of the competition from low-cost carriers, ... United is going to have to broaden our appeal to more customers than simply high-end customers. United is going to have understand that, in the aggregate, there are fewer customers out there, so we have to appeal to them all.

Usually in baseball, you don't expect to win this many games in a row whether you're playing great competition or weak competition, and we've played some good teams lately.

With much stronger competition worldwide, especially from China, garment buyers are now demanding more and better services from producers.

We feed off each other. We have our own competition every day. We compete for sacks, and we compete for tackles. We have that bond.

We faced four good teams in three days this week. This competition will make us better as district play rolls around.

We're favored and I think we'll do well as long as we finish. We learned the hard way (earlier in the season) that if two guys fall, the competition can take over pretty quickly.

We're just saying it will be one of the tallest buildings in Orlando. We're not looking to get into a competition over who can build the biggest yacht, so to speak.

We're just pleased with these kids. We've played some good competition and played them tough. We've won the last two games. We're improving each and every day. It's been a real pleasure to work with them. For this group, that's a nice win.

We're getting a lot of production throughout the lineup. We've played some pretty good competition this year and have come up with some big hits.

We're not always friends. But in the team there is no competition between Claudia and myself. We act like a team.

We're back on track after the ill effects of the hurricanes. But it is also fair to conclude that global competition and corporate layoffs are weighing on job growth.

Today, the forces of competition, technology, and globalization have converged to spur innovation and to transform the way business is done in the securities industry.

To play 12 one-day games in a competition can get a little bit much, and they need to re-look at that if they are going to have a triangular competition again.

To open the game up like that (the muffed return) was a downer. We'll open it up to competition this week, for sure.

To open the game up like that (the muffed return) was a downer, ... We'll open it up to competition this week, for sure.

We're putting the supermarket in competition with the corner filling station for the output of the farm.

With United, there's a difference. You're under the microscope all the time as the Red Devils are football's most supported team in the world.And the difference between Leeds United and Manchester United is not just the set-up but the competition there is, you need to perform or else you'll lose your job.