Ultra Competitive People Quotes & Sayings

You are the instrument of your own illumination. — Vivian Gornick

Why are you surprised when the thing you run from as hard as you can only gets faster and better at chasing you ... — Tiffany FitzHenry

- Chickens have a twenty-minute memory. We primates cope through booze and denial. Dial up more of that denial part, you'll last longer. — Ellen Datlow

Speech to him was a task, a battle, words mustered behind his beard and issued one at a time, heavy and square like tanks. — Margaret Atwood

Ultra competitive people who always need to win end up enjoying things less. — David Niven

I can remember on the first day on 'Chatroom,' it was just one scene for the whole day, which was a really nice luxury to have. — Hannah Murray

Las Vegas is perhaps the most color-blind, class-free place in America. As long as your cash or credit line holds out, no one gives a damn about your race, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, address, family lineage, voter registration or even your criminal arrest record. Money is the great leveler. — Marc Cooper

A former locomotive man, Eugene Debs ran for president of the United States four times, the fourth time in 1920, when he was in prison. He said, "As long as there is a lower class, I'm in it. As long as there is a criminal element, I'm of it. As long as there's a soul in prison, I am not free." Some platform. — Kurt Vonnegut

The voice sang on, "I am ready, I am ready, I am fine. I am fine, I am fine, I am fine." I played it again. I was not fine. — Kimberly Novosel

We (the left) have to be used to being a minority - a small minority - for some time to come. The odd thing is that the right even when it is in power, likes to think of itself as an embattled minority against this elite that somehow runs everything. Whereas the left, even when it has no power at all, likes to imagine it somehow represents the majority of people. These are mirror-image delusions. It is important to stick to principles, even when some of them may be unpopular now for one reason or another. For example, there has been a tendency for some progressives to look at the power of the right, and say, "Well, all we can focus on is economic justice issues, because other things, whether they are abortion rights or drug law reform, will be less popular and more divisive". And I think that is wrong approach. There are certain core things we stand for, and these include both economic justice and civil liberties, which you can't back away from. — Barbara Ehrenreich