#surpass

There was no race - but to the extent that there was an arms competition, it was almost entirely on the Soviet side, first to catch up and then to surpass the Americans. ↗

— Herman Kahn

#arms #catch #competition #entirely #extent

The Internet will win because it is relentless. Like a cannibal, it even turns on it own. Though early portals like Prodigy and AOL once benefited from their first-mover status, competitors surpassed them as technology and consumer preferences changed. ↗

— John Sununu

#because #benefited #cannibal #changed #competitors

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#approval #constant #most #own #splendid

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#could #i #indeed #knew #literature

Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#cannot #exaggerate #progress #recourse #surpass

The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#curve #dreamed #ever #every #every time

Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#himself #impossible #man #only #strives

We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined - the impression was overwhelming. ↗

— Howard Carter

#astonished #beauty #could #displayed #imagined

It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone. ↗

— Edmond H. Fischer

#commonly #considering #fails #failure #far

This is not bad, but the pace of globalisation has surpassed the capacity of the system to adjust to new realities of a more interdependent and integrated world. ↗

— Anna Lindh

#bad #capacity #globalisation #integrated #interdependent