“Us with our busy, busy little lives, finding no better way to pass our years than in competitive disdain.” — Iain Banks, Consider Phlebas
Tag: competition
Quote of the Day
“We’re all anxiously sizing up how everyone else’s decisions have worked out to reassure ourselves that our own are vindicated — that we are, in some sense, winning.” — Tim Kreider, “The Referendum,” New York Times (02009-09-17)
Quote of the Day
“The trouble with comparing oneself to others is that there are too many others.” — Sarah Manguso, Short Days, The Paris Review (Winter 2014)
Quote of the Day
“I’m afraid to win, and afraid to lose; I hate a draw and can’t stop competing; otherwise I’m fine.” — Mignon McLaughlin, The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook