Pastoral Resources

I was on the sideline with a knee injury and when I came back, I wanted to play at the best level I could. And that's the case for a lot of players, they want the chance to play against the best competition.

Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. Blood doesn't run in races! Come on!

So, essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.

Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take music fragments and make it live. Musicians would be able to play it and create this kind of abstract fabric of sound.

Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.

Competition is a sin.

Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to.

I started singing at the Met when I was seven, and the competition was so fierce that it really prepared me.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

Hence we did not foster competition in our school, on the contrary.

Now a movie goes out to two, three thousand theaters and by Friday night at 10 o'clock they know if you are in or out. That desperate competition is, I think, horrendous. It's awful.

I long for the days when grosses were not even known. There was no weekend competition.

'Sex' is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.

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.

I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school.