The company of certain people may excite our generosity…

Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere-and I really don't get on with machismo. I'm interested in sensitivity, and weakness, and fear,…

— Alain de Botton

I try to have a very well-rounded group of friends that did a lot of different things and weren't just performers. Because I feel…

— Gillian Jacobs

Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.

— James D. Watson

In Poland we still believe - and this certainly applies to my government - that greater competitiveness, and greater growth and savings are possible…

— Donald Tusk

When you work at 'The Daily Show,' you have to give 100 percent, or you're gone. The competitiveness and the minds that work in…

— Nate Corddry

the crucial disadvantage of aggression, competitiveness and skepticism as national characteristics is that these qualities cannot be turned off at five o'clock.

— Margaret Halsey

Stop costly new regulations that would increase unemployment, raise consumer prices, and weaken the nation's global competitiveness with virtually no impact on global temperatures.

— Newt Gingrich

Today's competitiveness, so much imposed from without, is exhausting, not exhilarating; is unending-a part of one's social life, one's solitude, one's sleep, one's sleeplessness.

— Louis Kronenberger

You don't want to put competitiveness and emotion away, so you learn to play with it. You learn to use it for your team.

— Grayson Allen

It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science,…

— Safra A. Catz

A state-based regulatory system is quite burdensome. It allows price controls to create market distortions. It can hinder development of national products and can…

— Henry Paulson

The challenge always is can we sustain a high level of competitiveness?

— Billy Donovan

I think competitiveness is taken in a different way by different people. I'm not a yeller and a screamer, a jumper and a pusher.

— Tim Duncan

If you put on your business hat, you can't maintain competitiveness by staying at a competitive disadvantage. I mean, you just can't. The odds…

— Heather Bresch

There are many examples of companies and countries that have improved their competitiveness and efficiency by adopting open source strategies. The creation of skills…

— Mark Shuttleworth