If you re-read your work you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group there was much less competition.

Any man today who returns from work sinks into a chair and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.

There are two kinds of people those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group there is less competition there.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk and to make our words and actions all of a color.

The genuine truth and I do think about this a lot is that I'm one of the least competitive people you'll ever meet. Except with myself.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts foreign ideas alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.

Tennis is all about mental toughness and you have to keep your head in the game. I make time to relax away from competition pressures travel and intense training schedules to make sure I'm looking after myself. Taking time out with family and friends helps to maintain the work-life balance everyone needs.

A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over even in victory to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.

More than 20 years on sustained competition informed customers and the rapid growth of new technology provide the necessary environment for substantial deregulation.

Today the forces of competition technology and globalization have converged to spur innovation and to transform the way business is done in the securities industry.

Without competition the spectacular development of technology that we have seen in the last one hundred years in this country would not have happened.

I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.

The Internet will win because it is relentless. Like a cannibal it even turns on it own. Though early portals like Prodigy and AOL once benefited from their first-mover status competitors surpassed them as technology and consumer preferences changed.

Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.

You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don't make moves and when you don't climb up the ladder everybody loves you because you're not competition.

The first condition of success for the League of Nations is therefore a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them.

So Europe needs to be competitive and we also need to be competitive if we wish to remain an interesting economic partner for the United States. This has to be done on the basis of strength of competitiveness.

But my strength was in singing and songwriting which was a new discovery for me when I was 18. And I decided if I pursued songwriting which is what was closest to my heart then there would be no competition. I would just live my life being myself and living my dream.

The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.

My commitment to Atlanta and passion for sports and competition make this acquisition a perfect fit for me.

I'd just like to be good at sports. I'm extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.