#pet

Walking down the red carpet, suddenly I felt very special and different. All the flashlights from cameras and requesting voices from the media, the scene, it was just like what I remembered seeing on TV or a movie when I was a little girl - the scene only when movie stars appeared. ↗

— Yani Tseng

#cameras #carpet #different #down #felt

When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I was 8. I remember I shot around 125. ↗

— Yani Tseng

#asked #competition #dad #first #friend

It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe. Don't worry, be happy. Everything is fine. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

#be happy #beyond #commencement #everything #fine

I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#argued #cannot #coming #competitiveness #consequence

We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#competition #deadly #evolutionary #humans #light

I remember Mick Jagger asking me 'hey, how do you guys feel about us coming over here and taking all the play from you guys?' I said 'Well, in a way, you have eliminated all my competition. ↗

— Bobby Vinton

#asking #coming #competition #eliminated #feel

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it. ↗

— Voltaire

#dear #gives #instrument #love is #mankind

Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. One-putts, up and down. Us Wagners don't hit greens. We chip and putt. ↗

— Jack Wagner

#chip #club #down #greens #hit

The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to win. ↗

— George Wald

#competition #mistake #russians #species #thought

I came here to help make America more competitive and prosperous by developing an energy policy that increases conservation, promotes cleaner technologies, encourages development of renewables and enhances domestic production of gas and oil. ↗

— Greg Walden

#came #cleaner #competitive #conservation #developing