The leftist is antagonistic to the concept of competition because, deep inside, he feels like a loser.
You may call me a Klansman if you will, but, potentially, every white man is a Klansman, as far as the Negro in competition with whites socially, economically and politically is concerned, and there is no use lying.
I understand the world solely as a field for cultural competition among the peoples.
Competition is pretty much the essence of everything, it gives humans drive.
Most women have all other women as adversaries; most men have all other men as their allies.
I was always the youngest and I think girls, period, try to psych each other out, there are a lot of head games.
And we all vied, in saving face, to be the greatest student of human nature, the person with the quickest sense of humor.
There's a lot of girls in the division I really like, but I always feel like there's this underlying sense of a potential matchup, potential competition. It adds a different element.
The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful.
America is competitive. We compete with each other every day.
New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.
In your short stay in Atlanta, I'm sure you saw that there was great competition between Martin's [Luther King] father and John Wesley Dobbs in terms of family status. You know, the bragging about whose child got a master's degree first and whose child, maybe, was the first Ph.D. Out of a background like that, the business of becoming a chairman of an important movement or a movement that symbolizes a certain amount of prestige is something you don't resist easily.
Nobody is glad in the gladness of another, and our system is one of war, of an injurious superiority. Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first. It is our system; and a man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies, and hatreds of his competitors.
There was a period in high school when, for some reason, I decided that suburbanites were my enemies or my rivals in a way.
The world is more competitive and social media drives this. It's woman against woman when it comes to appearance, possessions and friendship circles.
I'm not the athlete I was when I was training for the Olympics in '92 or when I was working out every single day. I have to live in moderation: I work out three or four days a week, and I smile while I'm working out - I really do enjoy it. I work out with my girlfriends and make it a social competition.
We owe our big brains less to inventiveness than to conflicts of interest among social minds engaged in an arms race to be the best at manipulating others.
We humans are really good at forming groups to compete, and then dissolving the groups and reforming them along different lines to compete in a different way.
Jockeying for a popularity position has been a valorized teen tradition since the notion of a discrete teen stage of life was invented.
I grew up not having very many girl friends. Girls tend to be competitive. I actually went to the school 'Mean Girls' was written about, so you can only imagine what my high school experience was like!
In affluent communities, where each member is keenly aware of his or her place within the Byzantine order, attracting the right friends is a blood sport. Chumming up to influential figures who are in a position to help can determine the course of an entire life.
Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.
Desire is both imitative (we like what others like) and competitive (we want to take away from others what they have). As children, we wanted to monopolize the attention of a parent, to draw it away from other siblings. This sense of rivalry... makes people compete for the attention.
