I did a play called ‘On Golden Pond’ in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having put together a three-man juggling routine and some one-liners and I got myself an agent from that. – Patrick Dempsey
You are the only you. That means you don’t lose roles to anybody else. There’s no competition, so they either want you or they don’t want you, and it’s not that they wanted someone else over you. – Rachel Brosnahan
While their competition is asleep, world-class leaders are up – and they’re not watching the news or reading the paper. They are thinking, planning and practicing. – Robin S. Sharma
The public may admire a corporation for its impressive size. Who in the United States doesn’t? But when a business, however gigantic, gets smug enough to believe that it is sufficient only to match competition on trivial points instead of leading competition in valid matters, that business is becoming vulnerable to public disfavor. – Raymond Loewy
I think everyone can recognize the one-upmanship and the competition that go on wherever you are, especially among groups where the women don’t have to hold down office jobs and instead get in a total snit about who won the longest carrot contest or took first prize for summer chutney in the August fete. – Rachel Johnson
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
I started off as a juggler. I used to do a half-hour show on the weekends to make money as a kid. Then I went to Cleveland, Ohio in 1983 to the international jugglers competition junior division and came second. So that was my first job, being a juggler. – Patrick Dempsey
Our government needs to adopt a pro-market agenda that doesn’t pick winners and losers, but it invites competition and it levels the playing field for everyone. – Sarah Palin
The EPA could act to open the transportation-fuel market to vigorous competition from natural gas as well as coal, biomass, and trash, by legalizing methanol. This would force oil prices down, expand the economy, and create millions of jobs. – Robert Zubrin
I’d been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn’t compete in big competition like, World Championship, like European Championship. I just competed in national competition. – Olga Korbut
When you get older, unless you’re a huge star, the parts become less and the competition becomes greater. Because the guys left standing are the best. – Peter Riegert
The innovative process is a fragile one, dependent on a complex, often messy interplay of imagination, competition, and exchange. Curbing new ideas hurts not only individual creators but the audience for which they create and the posterity that inherits their legacy. – Virginia Postrel
If you taste something, you’re not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion. – Takeru Kobayashi
The fashion industry is completely different from the acting industry, but definitely the same as well, because there’s cattiness and competition just like in the modeling world. – Sara Paxton
In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties. – Thomas E. Mann
When you think of all the conflicts we have – whether those conflicts are local, whether they are regional or global – these conflicts are often over the management, the distribution of resources. If these resources are very valuable, if these resources are scarce, if these resources are degraded, there is going to be competition. – Wangari Maathai
I was happy working for the N.B.A., but to be honest, I decided that I’d probably get back into coaching. I missed the teaching, I missed the games, I missed the competition. – Stu Jackson
My first competition, I guess, singing-wise, I was six years old, and there’s a video of it, too. I’m just, like, stick straight. I’m not moving at all, and I’m just singing. – Tori Kelly
You can’t really class all reality shows together. For instance, ‘Top Chef’ is about talent and competition. ‘Big Brother’ is more like what happens when you get all those narcissistic personalities crammed in together… and there are limits to that. – Sienna Guillory
We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light. – Vernor Vinge
The value of small business contracting is indisputable. These firms bring healthy competition to the federal market to drive down prices. They are our nation’s innovators and job creators, and securing a federal contract helps them grow and offers more benefit to the economy. – Sam Graves
There will always be something about two men in the ring – a mystique because it’s pure man-to-man competition. Because of the history boxing has and the tradition it holds, boxing will always have a that mystique. – Sugar Ray Leonard
Traditional PCs face competition from specialty products like Palm Pilots and from the servers that provide the nodes in computer networks. Microsoft’s Windows CE hasn’t done too well in the specialty-device market, and its Windows NT faces strong competition for server customers. – Virginia Postrel