Cut Throat Competition Quotes

#1. I usually only draw myself in down periods ... I suppose that's why I often draw myself looking grim. I just think, 'Let's have a look in the mirror.' When you are alone and you look in a mirror you never put on a pleasing smile. Well, you don't, do you?

David Hockney

#2. The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.

Sally Ride

#3. The stark reality facing us today is that without the labour reforms, workers will get neither the income nor jobs in the face of cut-throat global economic competition.

Kim Young-sam

#4. I suggested that we had experience in helping other countries build their military forces, and we would be willing and happy to do the same for Afghanistan, together with the United States.

Bulent Ecevit

#5. If there is one Osama bin Laden now, there will be 100 bin Ladens afterwards.

Hosni Mubarak

#6. The old system where every child was locked away and set into nonstop, daily cut throat competition with every other child for silly prizes called grades is broken beyond repair. If it could be fixed it could have been fixed by now. Good riddance.

John Taylor Gatto

#7. Cats 25 years younger can't run with me.

Raphael Saadiq

#8. ...being beautiful has nothing to do with sex. You have to be beautiful in here, too." he says, pressing his fist against his heart and then his head.

Karina Halle

#9. The stars of midnight shall be dear
To her; and she shall lean her ear
In many a secret place
Where rivulets dance their wayward round,
And beauty born of murmuring sound
Shall pass into her face.

William Wordsworth

#10. Freedom is from within.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#11. The truth! Since when have the majority on Earth cared about the truth?

Robert Peate

#12. Her tranquillity is their astonishment. For that they come, to be amazed again that such peace is there: all they have heard, and still hear now, does not record it. Calamity shaped a life when, long ago, chance was so cruel.

William Trevor

#13. Half of the people in this room are more dressed up than on any other day in the year, and the other half are more dressed down.

Bill Murray

#14. You get in life that which is your deep driving desire.

Debasish Mridha

#15. We all exist in our own personal reality of craziness.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#16. Everyone calls everybody special, so what's so special about being special? We all must have heard "you have the spark/you're the best/ you will rule the world" and just in the cut throat competition of being "special" we have forgotten to be Simple/ordinary/mediocre..

Himmilicious

#17. Power either goes up or down. Your thoughts are the harness of power. It is necessary to think positive thoughts, not just wait for them to occur, but to introduce them.

Frederick Lenz

#18. Half an hour afterwards Dick emerged from the inn, and if Fancy's lips had been real cherries, probably Dick's would have appeared deeply stained.

Thomas Hardy