Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course... the space between your ears.
‐‐ Bobby Jones
Competitive skills are desperately needed by poor children in America, and realistic recognition of the economic roles that they may someday have an opportunity to fill is obviously important, too. But there is more to life, and there ought to be much more to childhood, than readiness for economic functions.
‐‐ Jonathan Kozol
Competitiveness demands flexibility, choice and openness - or Europe will fetch up in a no-man's land between the rising economies of Asia and market-driven North America.
‐‐ David Cameron
Competitiveness has been a big thing for me.
‐‐ Bobby Rahal
Competitiveness is really what it costs you per man-hour to get you what you want. In other words, there's an education level that plays into the mix and so if it's inexpensive to buy an hour of real good education in places like China versus the U.S., that factors in.
‐‐ Ray Dalio
Competitors argue that Google rigs its search algorithms to demote listings for competing search engines. Many of the allegations of demotion come generally from sites of pretty questionable quality, such as Nextag and Foundem. Some of Google's primary competitors in 'specialized search' clearly place well in search results - Amazon and Yelp.
‐‐ Marvin Ammori
Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries.
‐‐ Chuck Grassley
Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.
‐‐ Vladimir Nabokov
Complainant received immediate lacerations of the credibility.
‐‐ Jimmy Breslin
Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.
‐‐ Mason Cooley
Complaining and arguing will not help. We are fully concentrating on the game against the Czechs.
‐‐ Oliver Kahn
Complaining is an insult to God.
‐‐ Monica Johnson
Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.
‐‐ Joyce Meyer
Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about.
‐‐ Lynn Johnston
Complaining not only ruins everybody else's day, it ruins the complainer's day, too. The more we complain, the more unhappy we get.
‐‐ Dennis Prager
Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
‐‐ Saint Augustine
Complete and total perfection will come about only when we feel that our perfection is no perfections as long as the rest of humanity remains imperfect.
‐‐ Sri Chinmoy
Complete barista-standard coffee machines cost from £1,600 to more than £20,000.
‐‐ Justin Cartwright
Complete objectivity is not an option. We are all subjective about the way we respond to 'what is,' whether it's the people we encounter, the circumstances in our lives, or ourselves. What we can do is reduce our subjectivity - what I call 'I see, therefore it is.'
‐‐ Elizabeth Thornton
Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
‐‐ Swami Sivananda
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
‐‐ Andre Gide
Complete strangers can stand silent next to each other in an elevator and not even look each other in the eye. But at a concert, those same strangers could find themselves dancing and singing together like best friends. That's the power of music.
‐‐ LZ Granderson
Completely committed to adapting 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters.
‐‐ Bret Easton Ellis
Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.
‐‐ Anita Baker
Completing a book, it's a little like having a baby.
‐‐ John le Carre
Completing any writing project, particularly a novel, is a daunting prospect. Many people become frozen by the prospect. Others keep waiting for the right time. Some wait for the spark of inspiration. Even experienced writers find it is easier to do anything other than actually write.
‐‐ Bob Mayer
Complex astronomical instruments like the Antikythera Mechanism and the Nebra Sky Disk were made by Pagans. Our Pagan intellectual heritage includes poets and scientists and literary intellectuals of every kind, especially including those who wrote some of the most important and influential books in all of Western history.
‐‐ Brendan Myers
Complex man that he was, J. Edgar Hoover left nothing to chance. The director shrewdly recognized that building what became known as the world's greatest law enforcement agency would not necessarily keep him in office.
‐‐ Ronald Kessler
Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins
Complexity excites the mind, and order rewards it. In the garden, one finds both, including vanishingly small orders too complex to spot, and orders so vast the mind struggles to embrace them.
‐‐ Diane Ackerman
Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.
‐‐ Christopher Alexander
Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other.
‐‐ Kevin Kelly
Compliance with the Stop Online Piracy Act would require huge overhead spending by Internet companies for staff and technologies dedicated to monitoring users and censoring any infringing material from being posted or transmitted.
‐‐ Rebecca MacKinnon
Complicated feelings are fertile soil for creative ideas.
‐‐ Kelly Sue DeConnick
Compliments and criticism are all ultimately based on some form of projection.
‐‐ Billy Corgan
Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.
‐‐ Thomas Fuller
Composers and lyricists are making songs that are approved by the producers and directors.
‐‐ Shaan
Composers and lyricists are not responsible for storyline and casting. One can imagine actors shouldering this responsibility, since they charge for half the film. But producers never ask actors to share the losses. Instead, they train their guns on composers and lyricists.
‐‐ Shaan
Composers are always going back to the past.
‐‐ Anne Dudley
Composers are not all good conductors.
‐‐ Anton Seidl
Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.
‐‐ John Philip Sousa
Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.
‐‐ Brian Ferneyhough
Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully.
‐‐ Johannes Brahms
Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.
‐‐ Ken Hill
Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.
‐‐ David Del Tredici
Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach. If there is any one composer who gives us reason and emotion, it is Bach.
‐‐ Karen DeCrow
Composers need words, but they do not necessarily need poetry. The Russian composer, Aleksandr Mossolov, who chose texts from newspaper small ads, had a good point to make. With revolutionary music, any text can be set to work.
‐‐ James Fenton
Composers now just don't have the depth of inspiration for melody. Most of the lyrics of the pop songs you hear today are repetitious. They're almost nursery rhymes, as if written by children - which they are.
‐‐ Rudy Vallee
Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.
‐‐ Thomas Beecham
Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.
‐‐ Howard Dietz