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Competitive Quotes - Page 17
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I'm very competitive, and I want to be very successful, but at the end of the day, films to me are still films. I want them to be good, and I'll work the hardest, but at night, I go home to my life and my family, and that's where my heart lies.
Marc Platt
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Life Family Work
Competitive
End Of The Day
Life Work Family
Films
Go Home
Lies
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We pledge to you that we will create jobs. End economic uncertainty and make America more competitive. We will cut Washington wasteful spending and reduce the size of government. And we will reform Congress and restore your trust in government.
Kevin Mccarthy
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Pledge
Size
Uncertainty
Wasteful Spending
Wasteful
Competitive
Reduce
Restore
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Specifically, the U.S. holds strength. Its own context makes it a very competitive country, but I believe that if we recognize how interdependent the U.S. with its neighbors from the North and the South, we are part of NAFTA, a trade agreement.
Enrique Pena Nieto
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President Of Mexico
Nafta
Strength Believe I Believe
Competitive
Context
Holds
Interdependent
Neighbors
Specifically
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It is definitely true that the fundamental enabling technology for electric cars is lithium-ion as a cell chemistry technology. In the absence of that, I don't think it's possible to make an electric car that is competitive with a gasoline car.
Elon Musk
/
Investor
Car
Technology
Absence
Chemistry
Electric
Enabling
Gasoline
Cell
Possible
Competitive
Definitely
Electric Cars
Fundamental
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Slow parents understand that childrearing should not be a cross between a competitive sport and product-development. It is not a project; it's a journey. Slow parenting is about giving kids lots of love and attention with no conditions attached.
Carl Honore
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Journalist
Journey
Kids
Parenting
Sports
Attention
Conditions
Giving
Lots
Attached
Competitive
Cross
Sport
Project
Slow
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I don't remember my first race, but I do recall various school sports days where I became way too competitive. We were seven or eight years old, and I had a very stern conversation with my relay team-mates about how crucial it was for us to win.
Laura Robson
/
Sports
Conversation
Crucial
Eight
Race
Competitive
Stern
Recall
Relay
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I don't like people getting the best of me or saying that they beat me. Every game I play, every competition I'm in, whether it's in a game, playing cards, video games, whatever it is, I'm trying to win. That's always been my competitive nature.
Patrick Beverley
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Cards
Competition
Games
Video
Nature Best Me
Game
Beat
Competitive
Saying
Video Games
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I guess people assume I have some sort of totally magical life, but I'm a working musician, fortunately. I've worked on my craft, and I'm very fortunate I've been able to survive in a very competitive industry and enjoy my success. It's not easy.
Debbie Harry
/
Singer-Songwriter
Fortunate
Musician
Life Success People
Assume
Competitive
Craft
Magical
Survive
To Survive
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I think that a lot of players and a lot of teams don't think of contact lenses as being a part of that essential gear but it truly is. You want every competitive advantage you can find and obviously having great vision is one of those advantages.
Heather O'reilly
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Soccer Player
Advantage
Competitive Advantage
Contact
Lenses
Vision
Competitive
Essential
Gear
Obviously
Teams
Truly
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From 1865 to 1965, my race, the black race, was one of the most competitive, entrepreneurial, Christian, moral races in our country. We had the highest percentage of entrepreneurs in the country, the highest percentage of marriage in the country.
Burgess Owens
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Marriage
Black
Country
Entrepreneurial
Moral
Race
Competitive
Percentage
Races
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Whether you're a Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservative, it is clear that we've got big problems that we need to address, starting with making our economy more competitive so that we can create more good-paying jobs for the middle class.
John Delaney
/
Big Problems
Clear
Democrat
Economy
Middle Class
Starting
Competitive
Good-Paying
Liberal
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I mean it's funny, playing music, how of course you want it to do well, you want them to like it, but it's not competitive like an election, it's the Olympics, it's not a Formula 1 race. The Billboard charts are just to show you what people like.
Eddie Van Halen
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Musician
Election
Mean
Olympics
People
Race
Funny Music People
Billboard
Charts
Competitive
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Having a dance background, I became used to rejection at an early age. Dance is very competitive, especially for a sensitive person like me. But I realized it's better not to take it so seriously. If you beat yourself up, it's hard to keep going.
Dianna Agron
/
Actress
Dance
Rejection
Sensitive
Background
Beat
Became
Competitive
Early Age
Realized
Seriously
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I blame and credit my brothers for my competitive fire within me. Growing up, I lost at everything! My brothers are quite a bit older - 10 years and 5 years - so it was a challenge, but I have some of the most amazing memories with my big brothers.
Jennie Finch
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Softball Player
Blame
Brother
Credit
Growing Up
Memories
Most Amazing
Brothers
Competitive
Quite A Bit
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When my main character in 'Heat' climbs the tower, the highest diving platform, hoping to resume competitive diving after an injury, I am there with her, sensing the cold grit under her instep. The details are what matter - they are the experience.
Michael Cadnum
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Poet
Experience
Character
Climbs
Cold
Details
Diving
Grit
Heat
Injury
Matter
Sensing
After
Competitive
Her
Hoping
Main
Main Character
Platform
Resume
Tower
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When you say was it you being silly or letting yourself go, or is it you being intense? I would say it was me being me. I would say that me being me is probably yes to all of that. So having fun, playing with passion, it matters to me, competitive.
Kirk Cousins
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Football Player
Being Silly
Having Fun
Intense
Passion
Silly
Competitive
Matters
Me Yourself Fun
Letting
Yes
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What America is thirsting for now is a battalion of strong, down-to-earth 'doers' - managers, frontline activists, business and social entrepreneurs engaged in tackling America's manifold problems of unemployment, education, and competitive slouch.
Tina Brown
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Journalist
Doers
Engaged
Managers
Tackling
Unemployment
Activists
Battalion
Competitive
Entrepreneurs
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All developmental activities for the common man such as education, healthcare, shelter and food distribution should be handled by reputed private sector institutions. It should be a competitive market in order to prevent the formation of monopolies.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
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Business Person
Education
Common
Common Man
Developmental
Distribution
Formation
Healthcare
Order
Private Sector
Shelter
Activities
Competitive
Handled
Market
Monopolies
Prevent
Private
Sector
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Strauss Group continues to strengthen its future growth engines, improve the company's competitive position, and increase market share, while continuing streamlining processes, improvements, and carrying out organizational adjustments in the company.
Ofra Strauss
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Adjustment
Continuing
Engines
Organizational
Carrying
Competitive
Market Share
Processes
Strengthen
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What people are feeling is the similarity in what I do and how I'm capable of breaking a new artist into a competitive field. People can't wrap their head around the fact that Gaga did not do that on her own. She didn't. There was a Laurieann Gibson.
Laurieann Gibson
/
Choreographer
Capable
Gaga
Similarity
Breaking
Competitive
Gibson
New Artist
Wrap
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When I'm hiring leaders, I pay a lot of attention to what their peers and what people who report to them say about them. We want people who relate well with their peers and cooperate in an exchange of information rather than being overly competitive.
John Mackey
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Attention
Hiring
Information
Pay
Peers
Relate
Report
Competitive
Cooperate
Exchange
Overly
Leaders
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I find myself getting associated with a lot of younger people in the game. I still enjoy playing with them, and I think they still enjoy playing with me. As long as I can stay competitive and have fun doing what I'm doing, I guess I'll keep doing it.
Arnold Palmer
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Professional Golfer
Enjoy
Younger
Myself Me Game
Associated
Myself Game Me
Competitive
Stay
Guess
Have Fun
Younger People
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If your home market is strong, you can be a strong global player because you have scale and can bring down the cost of production and remain competitive globally. When we started, our home market wasn't strong, so we had to do more business globally.
Tulsi Tanti
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Cost
Scale
Competitive
Globally
Market
Remain
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'Cloud 9' is an action/romantic comedy that focuses on the competitive world of snowboarding. We have glamorised it to so that all the players are on the cover of magazines, have all the interviews, and be on the television: so it is very high stakes.
Dove Cameron
/
Magazines
Snowboarding
Stakes
Cloud
Competitive
Cover
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India is the most competitive manufacturing destination on this planet. If we are able to take advantage of that competitiveness for our domestic markets, this country would be humming with activity; industrial production will grow at 10-11% per year.
Baba Kalyani
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Activity
Advantage
Competitiveness
Destination
Humming
Manufacturing
Competitive
Domestic
Per
Industrial
Take Advantage
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So I developed very early a massive inferiority complex, and I've told the story often about how that inspired me later in life to get involved in other things, because I couldn't out-do my brothers in sports, and it's a very competitive relationship.
George J. Mitchell
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Former United States Senator
Relationship
Sports
Brother
Inferiority
Inferiority Complex
Massive
Brothers
Competitive
Complex
Developed
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The 1970s - I was ten in 1975 - were a bad decade in all sorts of ways but the middle class had comfortable assumptions about the prospects for its children. The middle class was smaller then; it was a much less competitive Britain, less meritocratic.
David Miliband
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British Politician
Britain
Middle Class
Prospects
Ten
Assumptions
Competitive
Decade
Smaller
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I have to experience the Nokia products. I'm a major contributor to the design and the quality of the devices. I have a lot of feedback to provide the teams on that. But also I have to carry competitive devices. You have to understand the competition.
Stephen Elop
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Executive
Devices
Feedback
Carry
Competitive
Contributor
Teams
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My parents are very competitive, so we are very competitive as kids. But it's a good kind of competition; it's not a jealousy. You always want to do your best, and if it can't be you, you want it to be your brother or your sister, you know what I mean?
Janet Jackson
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Recording Artist
Jealousy
Sister
Brother
Competition
Best Good Do Your Best
Competitive
Do Your Best
Parents
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The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them.
Arthur Henderson
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British Politician
British
British Empire
Firm
France
Nations
United States Of America
Condition
Armies
Competitive
Empire
Italy
Therefore
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It was simple reality - most competitive tennis players in my day were privileged, spoiled, entitled and white. Also, many of them were beautiful, fit, tan and of good stock - great big hair and white teeth and long legs. Then there were the rest of us.
Anne Lamott
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Novelist
Beautiful
Big Hair
Entitled
Legs
Player
Privileged
Simple
Spoiled
Teeth
Tennis
Good Great Beautiful
Tan
Competitive
Stock
Tennis Players
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European-style interventions to which the Obama administration is inclined will not make America more competitive in the world-wide economy. Such policies will not increase growth, will not decrease unemployment, and will not increase wages for workers.
Elaine Chao
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Former United States Secretary Of Labor
Administration
Decrease
Unemployment
Wages
Workers
Competitive
Inclined
Obama Administration
Policies
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I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.
Gary Neville
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Soccer Player
Fighting
Football
Manchester
Years
Began
Competitive
Formative
Lads
Local
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I've been with Semperoper Ballet in Dresden, Germany, for five years - I wanted to escape the competitive dance world and go somewhere where I felt appreciated for my talents. Stateside, it was always kind of a struggle. And the competition? Not into it.
Sarah Hay
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Dance
Appreciated
Ballet
Germany
Struggle
Somewhere
Competitive
Talents
Escape
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You just have to know what your responsibility is to the movie, and live up to that, and be considerate of the other actors in the scene... I have never been competitive in that way - I always want my leading ladies to be as good as they possibly can be.
Michael Douglas
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Actor
Considerate
Competitive
Ladies
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By taxing CO2, firms and households would have an incentive to retrofit for the world of the future. The tax would also provide firms with incentives to innovate in ways that reduce energy usage and emissions - giving them a dynamic competitive advantage.
Joseph Stiglitz
/
Economist
Future
Advantage
Co2
Competitive Advantage
Emissions
Energy
Giving
Usage
Tax
Future World Energy
Also
Competitive
Dynamic
Households
Incentive
Innovate
Provide
Reduce
Taxing
Ways
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You read a book, write a detailed review as proof you've read it, and they give you a badge. That's where my competitive nature came out. Give me the badges! I would sit in the library all day, not 'cos I loved reading, just because I needed those badges.
Stormzy
/
Book
Give Me
Library
Needed
Proof
Reading
All Day
Badge
Loved
Competitive
Detailed
Just Because
Review
Sit
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I've found that men I've dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I've found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren't competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been... challenging.
Taylor Swift
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Singer-Songwriter
Men
Careers
Girlfriend
Business Men Great
Comparing
Competitive
Dated
Girlfriends
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Since I tend to be pretty competitive and find that others on my team enjoy contests and team competitions, I thought a good way to improve feedback would be to create a way to reward the comments and ideas that actually change our company for the better.
John Rampton
/
Contests
Feedback
Good Way
Change Good Better
Comments
Competitions
Competitive
Reward
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Political oppositionary activity on the Russian Internet caused the government to pass laws limiting both service operators and users. As a result, the Russian tech environment became much less liberal, losing freedom as one of its competitive advantages.
Pavel Durov
/
Government
Activity
Environment
Internet
Losing
Users
Caused
Advantages
Became
Less
Competitive
Liberal
Limiting
Pass
Result
Russian
Tech
Service
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Expecting to be able to get rid of the competitive drive, first of all, flies in the face of human nature - and little girls certainly have this drive, as much as little boys do, or at least the little girls I have observed in my immediate family have it.
Lynne Cheney
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Author
Girl
Boys
Expecting
Human Nature
Littles
Drive
Certainly
Competitive
Observed
First Of All
Immediate
Little Girls
Rid
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At some of our most competitive universities, 17 times the amount of students that can go to the school, apply. And these applicants are from all over the country, and admissions officers need ways to sort through them. The SAT is just one of those things.
Jonathan Grayer
/
Admission
Just One
Officers
Sat
Apply
Competitive
Universities
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Trust me when I tell you that Andy Roddick has the game to win a major poker tournament. I've played Hold 'em with him several times and he consistently demonstrates the kind of playing style and competitive drive that gives him a legitimate chance to win.
Phil Hellmuth
/
Professional Poker Player
Trust
Chance
Consistently
Trust Me
Chance Me Game
Andy
Drive
Played
Game
Competitive
Gives
Hold
Major
Legitimate
Poker
Several
Tournament
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I am surprised people took so long to pick up on the fact that my contract expires at the end of this year. Eddie has to decide who he wants to drive, so there is no secret anywhere. I am not concerned. It does not sit with my objectives to be competitive.
Damon Hill
/
Racing Driver
Sports
Athlete
Concerned
Objectives
Secret
Years
I Am Long People
Drive
Anywhere
Long I Am People
Competitive
Contract
Eddie
No Secret
Pick
Surprised
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We don't want a third party who may or may not have our best interests in mind or our crew members' best interests in mind because they may be serving a union of one of our competitors. They are trying to equalize us and take away our competitive advantage.
David Neeleman
/
Entrepreneur
Advantage
Competitive Advantage
Competitors
Crew
Members
Serving
Best Interests
Competitive
Crew Members
Interests
Union
Third
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I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.
Courteney Cox
/
Actress
Age
Compare
Past
Wanted
Looking
Anymore
Comparative
Competitive
Everybody Else
Gotten
In The Past
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When I arrived at Campbell on January 8, 2001, the company had lost half its market value in the prior year. They had to cut costs to the point where they were literally taking the chicken out of chicken noodle soup and the product was no longer competitive.
Douglas Conant
/
January
Soup
Campbell
Chicken
Competitive
Literally
Noodle
Prior
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It's so funny; I grew up in the Midwest, I have two older brothers, and you're just as competitive playing football as you are eating pickled eggs, or trying to kill zombies. As long as you don't take it too far, I think it's a good way for people to relate.
Jose Pablo Cantillo
/
Eating
Eggs
Football
Good Way
Midwest
Relate
Brothers
Competitive
Older
Older Brothers
Zombies
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Yoga is immediately rewarding, whatever your level, because it's not about being able to attain the perfect lotus position. Each day, there is an improvement on the day before. It's not competitive; it's not a race. With yoga, the journey is the destination.
Trudie Styler
/
Journey
Yoga
Destination
Each Day
Improvement
Position
Attain
Competitive
Immediately
Lotus
Rewarding
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India can make rapid economic progress to become a developed country only through a globally competitive economy, which requires assured access to the markets and technological innovations of the United States and some of its allies such as Israel and Japan.
Subramanian Swamy
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Indian Politician
Access
Allies
Assured
Developed Country
India
Japan
Technological
Competitive
Developed
Globally
Innovations
Markets
Rapid
Requires
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