Competition Quotes

Women are always told, 'You're not going to make it, its too difficult, you can't do that, don't enter this competition, you'll never win it,' - they need confidence in themselves and people around them to help them to get on.

Zaha Hadid

Always Around Competition Confidence

I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.

Zadie Smith

Ambition Anything Book Competition

The Sino-American competition involves two significant realities that distinguish it from the Cold War: neither party is excessively ideological in its orientation; and both parties recognize that they really need mutual accommodation.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Accommodation Both Both parties Cold

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.

Zubin Mehta

A good thing Always Because Been

Golf is not my priority. I would hope people see me as a Christian man who loved his family, who loved being in the heat of competition and sometimes succeeded at it; who understood that golf was his job and that he was very lucky to play it for a living.

Zach Johnson

Being Christian Competition Family

Over the years, I learned that in my career, unlike in life, sometimes my wheelchair is its own automatic door opener. I was able to win the OWN competition by applying one simple principle: be funny, and admit you suck before anyone else can call you out on it. In other words, make the narrative of your failure a comedy.

Zach Anner

Able Admit Anyone Anyone else

To me, the more dialogue amongst creative types, the better. It keeps people on their toes, and competition is healthy.

Zac Posen

Amongst Better Competition Creative

My greatest competition is, well, me.

R. Kelly

Competition Greatest Me Well

Competition exists everywhere.

Raashi Khanna

Competition Everywhere Exists

Also, there are authors and publicists using the Internet to manipulate opinion, both positively for a work and negatively against the competition. I don't do this and can't stomach it, honestly.

R. A. Salvatore

Against Also Authors Both

You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.

Rachel Brosnahan

Anybody Anybody else Competition Either

I think everyone can recognize the one-upmanship and the competition that go on wherever you are, especially among groups where the women don't have to hold down office jobs and instead get in a total snit about who won the longest carrot contest or took first prize for summer chutney in the August fete.

Rachel Johnson

About Among August Carrot

When it comes to talking to your kids about economics, start early beause the progressive culture-makers are starting earlier than you think! Cartoon storylines regularly denegrate competition and other foundational principles of capitalism.

Rachel Campos-Duffy

About Capitalism Cartoon Competition

Competition works. Ask any parent if their child will run faster from the house to the mailbox if he runs by himself or if he races to the mailbox with his sister. It's a no brainer.

Rachel Campos-Duffy

Any Ask Child Competition

Real Madrid approach each match and each competition with the idea of winning it.

Rafael Benitez

Approach Competition Each Idea

Competition in football means someone will improve.

Rafael Benitez

Competition Football Improve Means

In a world with weak aggregate demand, countries are engaging in a futile competition for a greater share of it. In the process, they are creating financial-sector and cross-border risks that will become increasingly apparent as countries exit their unconventional policies.

Raghuram Rajan

Aggregate Apparent Become Competition

Politicians know that structural reforms - to increase competition, foster innovation, and drive institutional change - are the way to tackle structural impediments to growth. But they know that while the pain from reform is immediate, gains are typically delayed and their beneficiaries uncertain.

Raghuram Rajan

Beneficiaries Change Competition Delayed

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