#competing

I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#before #boy #captain #collecting #competing

Doesn't anyone here think this sounds like a vision of hell? While we are all competing or dying, when will there be time for sex or music or books? Stop the world, I want to get off. ↗

— Howard Stringer

#books #competing #dying #get #hell

I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just want to sidestep the whole thing and get out of the race. ↗

— Kirk Hammett

#fall #get #great #guitar #guitar players

What does it mean to be the best? It means you have to be better than the number two guy. But what gratification is there in that? He's a loser—that’s why he's number two. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#best #bizarre #competing #competition #competitor

I intend to fight to ensure that Connecticut workers have a level playing field when competing for jobs. ↗

— Christopher Dodd

#connecticut #ensure #field #fight #i

When you reach that elite level, 90 percent is mental and 10 percent is physical. You are competing against yourself. Not against the other athlete. ↗

— Dick Fosbury

#athlete #competing #elite #level #mental

If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture. ↗

— Bill Gates

#agriculture #competing #energy #energy production #first-class

Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests. ↗

— C. Wright Mills

#balancing #cling #competing #disturbed #economy

Having loved sport my whole life, competing in a Paralympics would be a dream come true. ↗

— Heather Mills

#competing #dream #having #life #loved

I used biomechanics to save time when I was competing. ↗

— Edwin Moses

#competing #i #save #time #used