#pete

Do not sit next to my mother when she is watching one of her children compete because you will have fingernails down your back. She is a nervous wreck. ↗

— Diana Lopez

#because #children #compete #down #fingernails

Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#black #common #common interests #compete #define

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

#compete #every #every man #everything #expert

I'm a catalogue artist: I compete with Bob Dylan. ↗

— Courtney Love

#bob #bob dylan #catalogue #compete #dylan

Yeah, I do feel badly sometimes, not for whose coming up and getting roles I'm not right for anymore but the people I compete with, who range from Uma Thurman on up. ↗

— Kelly Lynch

#badly #coming #compete #feel #getting

When I was a child, all I wanted was to enter the Austrian team and to compete on the World Cup tour. I had to fight hard to reach this. I wanted badly to win each race. ↗

— Hermann Maier

#badly #child #compete #cup #each

Well, I have concerns about the effectiveness of Europe to compete. ↗

— John Major

#compete #concerns #effectiveness #europe #i

In today's global economy, however, it is important to raise the bar of excellence even higher. Today's students must be prepared to compete effectively on an international level. ↗

— Kenny Marchant

#be prepared #compete #economy #effectively #even

To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#choose #comes #competence #elements #hand

If somebody had told me in the 1980s that Gerry Adams would shake hands with Ian Paisley or Peter Robinson I would have said put that man in a white suit and lock him up in a padded cell. ↗

— Barry McGuigan

#cell #gerry #had #hands #him