Pastoral Resources

And what it depends on, of course, is whether the story itself is worth the ethical compromise it requires and whether the competition is onto the story.

If you look at the 19 hijackers who came to the United States in Sept. 11 to commit those acts, if you'd looked at them before they got onto a plane, you could probably say the same thing. There were various levels of expertise, various levels of competence.

I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language.

There's always competition out there. That's what makes life exciting.

The whole competition thing disturbs me. Not that I wasn't a part of it when I first started.

I ride my horse at competition level.

I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location.

I like to employ a form of repetition, in which the same elements recur but in different and unexpected ways. rather than being discarded as soon as they are understood or passed over.

Activity in politics also produces eager competition and sharp rivalry.

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.

Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

While I was there I became deeply interested in photography, and indeed the most noteworthy event in my early life was winning first, third, fourth and seventh prizes in an international competition for college and high school students.

The inconvenience, the glaring lights, the long hours of waiting, and the repetition of every scene are all calculated to defeat anything more than a real mastery of love technique.

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

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

The incompetence regarding body and vehicle armor rises almost to a level of criminal negligence.

Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

The kind of society which we still have is maybe, in some cases, getting worse. Competition is becoming a virtue. Intense competition drives people to go more and more into self-interest. Even to see other folks as competition.

Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.

Our government needs to adopt a pro-market agenda that doesn't pick winners and losers, but it invites competition and it levels the playing field for everyone.