#win

The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#assuming #capitalism #competition #defenders #does

A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror. ↗

— Wilhelm Steinitz

#combination #fills #horror #however #me

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#bugle #ear #get #going #i

I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#hearts #i #i believe #inner #listen

I think everyone has a certain kind of formula in their life. When you deviate from that formula, you're going to fail big or you're gonna win big. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#certain #deviate #everyone #fail #formula

I think that gravity sets into everything, including careers, but pendulums do swing and mountains do become valleys after a while... if you keep on walking. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#become #careers #everything #gravity #i

When you're on top and you lead the parade, everyone's there throwing lilies and lilac water on your head. But when those parades have gone by and there's a storm in your heart, there are very few people that are going to sit there and listen to you bemoan life. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#few #few people #going #gone #head

I was an ambitious child and I tended to be scatterbrained. If I was at school and saw a bird outside the window I wanted to follow it. I was adventurous. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#ambitious #bird #child #follow #i

When we take our eyes off the whirl of day-to-day activity and concentrate on honoring Him and following in His way, we find a consistent peace that carries us through both plenty and poverty. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#both #carries #concentrate #consistent #day-to-day

A beam of luminous hydrogen canal rays has, owing to its velocity, exactly the same direction as that of the electric field in which it may be made to move. ↗

— Johannes Stark

#canal #direction #electric #exactly #field