When there is unhealthy competition everybody is a loser.
It's never good to compare yourself to anyone, whether it's professional or personal. There is always somebody better, more talented and powerful out there. There is no point of getting sucked into all that.
It's a sad situation when you have to talk crap about other organizations that you know your paths are never going to cross competitively.
Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
It's a little bit silly to pit us all against each other as if we were running a race. Just think about the fact that Richard Burton never won an Oscar.
The more important argument against grade curves is that they create an atmosphere that's toxic by pitting students against one another. At best, it creates a hypercompetitive culture, and at worst, it sends students the message that the world is a zero-sum game: Your success means my failure.
Harmony can not thrive in a climate of mistrust, cheating, bullying; mean-spirited competition.
I think it's dangerous if your goal in life is to get the other guy, then you're not going to be doing a really quality job yourself
As a warning to parents, I mention that my father preferred me to my brother, which was very injurious to both of us. To me, as tending to produce in my mind a feeling of self-elevation; and to my brother, by creating in him a dislike both towards my father and me.
As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive.
I think competition turns people into what they normally wouldn't be.
What I don't like about Washington, if we say one syllable or one sentence, or this guy said something bad about me, then, all of a sudden, they have to be my mortal enemy. I don't think that's how it works in American business.
Like getting into a bleeding competition with a blood bank.
Well, nine times out of ten when you have 2 or 3 stars in a household you have an unfortunate amount of competition that's not necessarily a healthy competition.
Competition gives birth to a lot of success, and if no one ever challenged you, you wouldn't go anywhere. It makes sense to compete with others for a promotion at work. But so many women take it a step further and won't even support other women. They end up competing over things that don't make sense - like how we look.
When you dig in, two big titans clashing, what good is that? It's not good for either of us; it's not good for the industry.
A lot of actors try to sabotage other actors, and that's sad because then you're never going to get that beautiful scene.
