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When is competition valuable?
I-P
I think competition is a social and psychological pathology involving a relative failure of individuation, extrinsic and relatively ego-based motivations and insecurites and many other relatively unhealthy tendencies and I can't remember ever not feeling this... More »
When have you felt unconditionally accepted?
Jon
In the embrace of my therapist....and within the eyes of my son and partner Tam...and in a few folk I have known, notably Tam and Ruari (Goatfish here on site)..... and in the moments of... More »
The Psychopathic Hero of Consumer Capitalism
Morten Tolboll
Ego-worship has become a common accepted ideology. A whole time-tendency within school, folk high school and continuing education, focus on so-called "personal development". Inspired by fx Sartre and postmodernism you are being encouraged to an... More »
Management theory and spirituality
Morten Tolboll
We live in a postmodern society, where the distinction between reality and appearance/superficies is about to disappear. Reality is often the images, we receive through the stream of information. And it becomes more and... More »
Calibrations of Books According to the Map of Consciousness
Rob
A few Self Calibrations of books that were lying around (subject to error as I'm just starting to get the hang of the technique): Robcore: 965 - Transcending the Levels of Consciousness, by David R.... More »
Unconditional love has to be possible.
Angela
People need unconditional love. I instantly recognized the truth of that idea when I ran across the work of Carl Rogers in college. But that creates a dilemma for me. Either it's actually possible to... More »
"1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die"
PudgyKogima
Books I'm curently reading Books I've read 2000s Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro Saturday – Ian McEwan On Beauty – Zadie Smith Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson... More »
"1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die"
PudgyKogima
Books I'm curently reading Books I've read 2000s Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro Saturday – Ian McEwan On Beauty – Zadie Smith Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson... More »
Speedlinking 9/18/07
WH
Quote of the day : "Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there." ~ Clare Booth Luce Image of the day ( John Craig ): BODY ~ Amino acids:... More »
Recovering from the Yggdrasil of the Swedes
Jodell
This summer, Swedish descendents of my Great Great Great Great Great Grandfather Carl G. (Christ) Thysell came together in Idaho, USA. There were family photo albums for three long tables, enough food and desert to... More »
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn . . . and change.
. . . though modern Marriage is a tremendous laboratory, its members are often without preparation for the partnership function. How much agony and remorse and failure could have been avoided if there had been at least some rudimentary learning before they entered the partnership.
"A ship in the harbor is safe. But that's not what ships are built for." -Anonymous
"Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing."
-Vince Lombardi
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
-Michael Jordan
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
-John Wooden
If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.
-Herschel Walker
Most games are lost, not won.
-Casey Stengel
The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.
-George Shultz
Adversity cause some men to break; others to break records.
-William A. Ward
Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.
-Charlie Finley
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
-A J Kitt
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.
-Archie Griffen, two-time Heisman winner ( 5'9'')
There's no substitute for guts.
-Paul "Bear" Bryant
I really lack the words to compliment myself today.
-Alberto Tomba
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
-Lou Holtz
My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging
-Hank Aaron
Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.
-Joe Paterno
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
-Joe Paterno
We must either find a way or make one.
-Hannibal
It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.
-Muhammad Ali
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
-Honore de Balzac
Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.
-Greg LeMond
To succeed...You need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
-Tony Dorsett
Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.
-Magic Johnson
Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.
-Bo Jackson
Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.
-Sir Edmund Hillary
I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.
-Gale Sayers
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination
-Tommy Lasorda
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
-Coach Darrel Royal
You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge.
-Damon Runyon
It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired-you quit when the gorilla is tired.
-Robert Strauss
If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.
-Ronnie Lott
The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it-as long as you really believe 100 percent.
-Arnold Schwarzenegger
Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
-Tom Landry
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
-Unknown
It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.
-Eric Lindros
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
-Vidal Sassoon
The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.
-Jean-Claude Killy
Everyone has limits on the time they can devote to exercise, and cross-training simply gives you the best return on your investment-balanced fitness with minimum injury risk and maximum fun.
-Paula Newby-Fraser
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear.
-Mark Twain
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
-Amelia Earhart
Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.
-Lou Brock
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
-Satchel Paige
If at first you don't succeed, you are running about average.
-M.H. Alderson
When someone tells me the is only one way to do things, it always lights a fire under my butt. My instant reaction is, "I'm gonna prove you wrong."
-Picabo Street
The only way to overcome is to hang in. Even I'm starting to believe that.
-Dan O'Brien
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
-Vince Lombardi
There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either IN or you're OUT. There's no such thing as life in-between.
-Pat Riley
The game isn't over till it's over.
- Yogi Berra
Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles.
-Bob Richards, Pole Vaulter
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
-John Wooden
I'll always be Number 1 to myself.
-Moses Malone
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
-Thomas Jefferson
When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.
-Bill Shoemaker
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
-Seneca
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.
-Babe ruth
The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players.
-Don Coryell, ex-San Diego Chargers Coach
When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. Show the world how much you'll fight for the winner's circle. If you do, someday the cellophane will crackle off a fresh pack, one that belongs to you, and the cards will be stacked in your favor.
-Pat Riley
Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.
-Chuck Noll, ex-Pittsburgh Steelers Coach
When your are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that.
-Duffy Daugherty
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
-Vincent T. Lombardi
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
-Robert F. Kennedy
My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: "Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win....Channel your energy. Focus."
-Carl Lewis
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
-Dennis Waitley
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
-Thomas Edison
A ship in the harbor is safe. But that's not what ships are built for.
-Anonymous
The best inspiration is not to outdo others, but to outdo ourselves.
-Anonymous
Think big, believe big, act big, and the results will be big.
-Anonymous
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: Nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not: Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: The would is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
-Anonymous
You learn you can do your best even when it's hard, even when you're tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage.
-Joe Namath
Winning isn't everything, wanting to is.
-Anonymous
If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end.
-Julius Erving
Confidence is a very fragile thing.
-Joe Montana
If you set a goal for yourself and are able to achieve it, you have won your race. Your goal can be to come in first, to improve your performance, or just finish the race-it's up to you.
-Dave Scott, Triathlete
I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.
-Arnold Palmer
Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity. The relationship between the soundness of the body and the activities of the mind is subtle and complex. Much is not yet understood. But we do know what the Greeks knew: that intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong; that hardy spirits and tough minds usually inhabit sound gods.
-JFK
The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the others willing to let them.
-Robert Frost
The more I train, the more I realize I have more speed in me.
-Leroy Burrell
Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!
-Pat Riley
If you chase two rabbits, both will escape.
-Author unknown
Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-Will Rogers
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
-Unknown
I will always be someone who wants to do better than others. I love competition.
-Jean-Claude Killy
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
-Samuel Johnson
Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself.
-Shannon Miller
I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.
-Bruce Jenner
In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.
-Van Morrison
He who stops being better stops being good.
-Oliver Cromwell
The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.
-Steve Young
When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.
-Kikuyu proverb
