#pet

Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#athlete #barriers #competitive #crash #demands

The U.N. has been so disappointing to date on the whole Rwanda issue that despite the people they've sent through, and I have no doubt their competence, in the end, the decision is going to be made by other people and not by them. ↗

— Tony Greig

#competence #date #decision #despite #disappointing

The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart. ↗

— John Grierson

#heart #lie #oblique #paradox #propaganda

The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, 'culture.' ↗

— George Grosz

#among #armed #bourgeoisie #culture #other

A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk. ↗

— Alec Guinness

#muffled #silk #silver #superb #tenor

You learn so much from competition you gain confidence every time you have to step up and perform. ↗

— Natalie Gulbis

#confidence #every #every time #gain #learn

If I would go up on a high note, Eddie would want a low one. That's how petty the situation had become. ↗

— Sammy Hagar

#eddie #go #had #high #high note

There used to be three networks, and now there are 40 million networks. There's a lot more competition out there, too. We would bring in 27 million people. Now, they're lucky if they have 17. I looked at the ratings, for the first time in 25 years, just to see, and there were 130 shows on. There used to be maybe 30. ↗

— Larry Hagman

#competition #first #first time #i #just

Labour have been listening for too long to the so-called experts who think that competition is a dirty word and that communicating facts to our children is elitist. ↗

— William Hague

#children #communicating #competition #dirty #elitist

The EU should be concentrated on adapting to globalisation and global competitiveness, not building more powerful centralised institutions in Brussels. ↗

— William Hague

#brussels #building #competitiveness #concentrated #eu