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Striving for excellence versus striving for superiority. Striving for excellence means striving to become better in some regard, to improve, or at least not to get worse, especially as we age;47 it is... -
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The person striving for superiority is “always outside himself, is capable of living only in the opinion of others and, so to speak, derives the sentiment of his own existence solely from their judgm... -
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Many economic fallacies are due to conceiving of economic activity as a zero-sum contest, in which what is gained by one is lost by another. This in turn is often due to ignoring the fact that wealth ... -
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It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition has gone, pride has gone. -
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A person may fight ferociously to win success, to be better than everybody else, and then one day find it all seems empty and meaningless. -
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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. -
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Everything we do is about winning something or measuring one person against another or garnering goods in great quantity, not because we need them but in order that others can’t have them. We make lif... -
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If you're not gonna go all the way, why go at all? -
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Unable to value, unable to enjoy. -
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The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat. -
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace. -
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I always sought to win whatever the game was, and only now do I realize how much I have been played by the game. -
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It’s cheaper. -
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Competing is exciting and winning is exhilarating, but the true prize will always be the self-knowledge and understanding that you have gained along the way. -
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Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse than mine and I don’t like it, or I suspect it is better than my novels and I don’t like it. -
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There is no denying that competitiveness is part of the life both of an individual and a community, or that, within limits, it is a useful and necessary part…But it is equally obvious that no individu...
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