#competition

Competition is an easy way to get into flow. ↗

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#easy #easy way #flow #get #into

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

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

For 'Around the World in 80 Plates' we got to travel all over, having what was like a cross between a culinary competition and races. And in each country we had a chef Ambassador. We went to London, Barcelona, Bologna, Hong Kong, Thailand, Morocco... It was amazing. ↗

— Curtis Stone

#ambassador #around #barcelona #between #chef

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#authors #competition #dead #envy #living

I am reaching a point in my life where the basketball chapter in my life is slowly closing from a competition standpoint. ↗

— Alonzo Mourning

#basketball #chapter #closing #competition #i

There's always competition out there. That's what makes life exciting. ↗

— Carolyn Murphy

#competition #exciting #life #makes #out

At the end of the competition, I played the Liszt concerto and I felt my head was on the block. Well, I won. ↗

— Andre Boucourechliev

#competition #concerto #end #felt #head

With competition everyone has to try harder. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#everyone #harder #try

The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us. ↗

— John Williams

#between #competition #cooperation #countries #healthy