1,687 Quotes About Competition

The information age is converting a human from loving to logical and replacing his peace with the pain.

Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse than mine and I don’t like it, or I suspect it is better than my novels and I don’t like it.

It is not a person or situation that affects your life; it is the meaning you give to that person or situation, which influences your emotions and actions. Your choice is to change the meaning you gave it or to change your response, in order to create the outcome you want.

Once there is realization of self challenge, ego versus soul, competition with others becomes futile.

There is always a younger, prettier girl right behind you. That's one thing every woman learns quick--whether you're in the business or not.

Suppose you want something very much. You think that if you don’t get that something, happiness won’t be possible. You get caught in that idea. But, in reality, there are people who have that thing who are miserable, and there people who don’t have that thing who are perfectly happy.

Nobody really cares about or checks your GPA after college, except for, like, grad schools, who only barely do, taking a whole lot of other things into consideration.

Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.

Homo economicus was surreptitiously taken as the emblem and analogue for all living beings. A mechanistic anthropomorphism has gained currency. Bacteria are imagined to mimic "economic" behavior and to engage in internecine competition for the scarce oxygen available in their environment. A cosmic struggle among ever more complex forms of life has become the anthropic foundational myth of the scientific age.