#competition

I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location. ↗

— John Forbes Nash, Jr.

#became #been #choice #competition #either

Of course, most people remember that I received the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics competition. ↗

— Nadia Comaneci

#course #first #gymnastics #i #most

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings. ↗

— Barack Obama

#beings #common #competition #dignity #exclusive

The kind of society which we still have is maybe, in some cases, getting worse. Competition is becoming a virtue. Intense competition drives people to go more and more into self-interest. Even to see other folks as competition. ↗

— Major Owens

#cases #competition #drives #even #folks

Reality is a genre that seems to be here to stay. I don't know how many of the new shows will last, but the more competition you have, the harder that pie is to slice up. ↗

— Jeff Probst

#genre #harder #here #how #i

Today, the competition is considerably more intense. ↗

— Bobby Rahal

#considerably #intense #more #today

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

#also #authors #both #competition #honestly

Indeed, we must foster cost-saving competition. And that means joining the marketplace of other industrialized countries - not just for the manufacturers who sell drugs, but for consumers as well. ↗

— Olympia Snowe

#consumers #countries #foster #indeed #industrialized

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

— Bertrand Russell

#criminal #life #nothing #rather #than

Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy. ↗

— Marshall Field

#cannot #competition #destroy #goodwill #only