It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her hus...band, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As long as they desire the same object, they are of one mind, but having to achieve the same thing immediately disrupts their unan...imity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
North and West have always vied for power and territory, but their recent competition as to which one is more insidious of the two... has been more peaceful.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the race for wealth, a neighbor tries to outdo his neighbor, but this strife is good for men. For the potter envies potter, and... the carpenter the carpenter, and the beggar rivals the beggar, and the singer the singer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Competition can be a very intense experience and a very rewarding one, or it can be enormously destructive. External pressure, whe...ther it's exerted by a coach, a school, a ski club, or a country, is what can make it a negative thing. When they use you to satisfy their need to succeed, when they impose their value system on you, then competition isn't personally rewarding anymore.... You're either a winner or a loser.... There's no way in my mind that you can divide humanity into those two categories.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Competition is. In every business, no matter how small or how large, someone is just around the corner forever trying to steal you...r ideas and build his success out of your imagination, struggling after that which you have toiled endless years to secure, striving to outdo you in each and every way. If such a competitor would work as hard to originate as he does to copy, he would much more quickly gain success.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »