Competing Quotes

God makes us as broken bread and poured-out wine to please Him. Beware of competing calls once the call of God grips you.

Achamian tossed his hands skyward in dismay. “Foolish boy! How many faiths are there? How many competing beliefs? And you would murder another on the slender hope that yours is somehow the only one?

The challenge when you think about product distribution is: how are you competing for potential customers or potential members time?

Philanthropic leaders genially speak of complementing government, not competing with it as if monopoly were good and competition destructive-thus unwittingly conspiring against the public interest.

The only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war.

I was competing for attention in a four-piece band that was phenomenal, and I was trying to attack the blues from a kind of white English viewpoint as a singer.

How competitive am I? A healthy amount. I have four siblings. It was competitive just eating dinner, like, "Everyone, get what you want from the chicken." Plus competing for your parents' attention.

The media is one rather than a series of different entities that are competing against each other.

Most of the time our events aren't in the papers and they're not televised, so people don't know when we're competing.

You're competing against people in a state of flow, people who are truly committed, people who care deeply about the outcome.

I've never had a teammate competing with me my whole life.

Now that I'm in my 40s, it's much easier to be an artist. It's good knowing that I'm not in the game to be competing with really young groups of kids on the radio. Or to, you know, make 'beat' music.

I was young. I was 23 or 24. I just wasn't a fan of the politics of campaigning - of going into that environment and competing and trying to get into the good graces of the writers.

When we look at what's going on in the world and we see the immense level of conflict that seems to always be happening - you can always trace it back to competing narratives.

A magazine feature can reach hundreds of thousands of potential customers for a fashion brand. The way to reach a billion? Dress the actresses competing for attention at a highly televised event.

I love the history of the sport, I love the culture that surrounds it, and I never dreamed I'd become a fanatic. I'm such a fanatic now that I'm committed to competing.

The deepest bonds of unity are forged through the trial of competing ideals that have compatible values.

What's great about this hotel [Sheraton Universal Hotel in Universal City, CA] is that I stayed here for a month when I was competing on the Oprah reality show. So it's like coming home.

Be so busy competing with your old self until you start to see no reason to ever compete with others.

Competition may help us create better products and services but in the end competition really seeks to destroy the opponent. To put him out of the power to compete against you.

Living one's life as if it is a competition between oneself and others, is an inevitable path to a stressful life.

If you are living an original life, there is absolutely no need to compete with anyone else.

To win in life, never forget to be content competing with yourself.

I’m not interested in competing with anyone. I hope we all make it.

You become better not by competing with someone else but by improving your awareness.

Consciously or unconsciously, the only person you should compete with is you.

I'm past competing in pissing contests. My jet stream is now more of a trickle. The only contest I'd win is the number of trips to the bathroom it takes to purge a 32oz soda.

The only competition that matters the most in life, is the one between you and your old self.

The only thing I advocate for is for equality for female athletes because we train just as hard, and we're always having a lot of head-to-head clashes, always competing against each other.