Competition Quote by Jerry Fodor Download Open image “Who wins a... competition [between two traits] is massively context sensitive.” — Jerry Fodor ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Competition Sensitive Sports Traits Two Winning
I think competition turns people into what they normally wouldn't be. — Shane Dawson Copy Share Image
“To the consummate competitor, winning is not the same as beating your opponents. Winning is playing to your absolute best; beating others is a… — Alisa Melekhina Copy Share Image
The only competition that matters is the one that takes place within yourself. — Pete Carroll Copy Share Image
The difference of somebody of winning and losing, has nothing to do with their genetics, has nothing to do with their potential. — Greg Plitt Copy Share Image
Competition is an example of separation, you fight to compete and you have not won, even when you think you won. — Sitara Devi Copy Share Image
I don't feel any sense of competition at all, and that might be my naïveté, but I don't feel pitted against anyone at all. — Amy Schumer Copy Share Image
Competing at the highest level is the greatest test of one's character. — Russell Mark Copy Share Image
A winner concentrates on that which is goal achieving rather than tension relieving. — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
Faculty Psychology is getting to be respectable again after centuries of hanging around with phrenologists and other dubious types. By faculty psychology I mean,… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
...there are special sciences not because of the nature of our epistemic relation to the world, but because of the way the world is… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
...if it isn't literally true that my wanting is causally responsible for my reaching, and my itching is causally responsible for my scratching, and… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
To the best of my recollection, I became a philosopher because my parents wanted me to become a lawyer. It seems to me, in… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
It simply isn't true, for example, that being big is in general better for fitness than being small except when there are effects of… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
“Thought about the world is prior to thought about how to change the world. Accordingly, knowing-that is prior to knowing-how. Descartes was right and… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
Suppose that the organism is given the problem of determining the analysis of a stimulus at a certain level of representation - e.g., the… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
The theory of natural selection reduces to a banal truth: if a kind of creature flourishes in a kind of situation, then there must… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
The degree of confirmation assigned to any given hypothesis is sensitive to properties of the entire belief system... simplicity, plausibility, and conservatism are properties… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
The data that can bear on the confirmation of perceptual hypotheses includes, in the general case, considerably less than the organism may know. — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
Philosophers who pay for their semantics by drawing checks on Darwin are in debt way over their heads. — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
The Copa del Rey is a different competition. It is football in its purest form and is different from the continuity of the league. — Michael Laudrup Copy Share Image
I can skate beautifully. While performing on ice I always try to please the audience and to win as well. Being artistic is very… — Evgeni Plushenko Copy Share Image
I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better? — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
People think that the Club World Cup is an easy competition, but it's not. — Keylor Navas Copy Share Image
If you ask another competitor, they may tell you they felt very competitive towards me. But I can tell you that my biggest competition… — Michelle Kwan Copy Share Image
Our competition has always been anything that is wasting your time when you're bored at work. In a broad sense. We want people to… — Alexis Ohanian Copy Share Image
I've always considered making it legal for Americans to import their prescription drugs a free-trade issue. Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more… — Chuck Grassley Copy Share Image
Honestly, we’ll compete with everybody. I love competition. As long as people invent their own stuff, I love competition. — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
The "health, education, and welfare" section of government is another boondoggle. First we manufacture indigent and superfluous people by legal monopolies in land, money… — Laurance Labadie Copy Share Image
I try to keep up with everything - all wrestling across the board. I want to know what the competition is doing, what the… — Matt Hardy Copy Share Image
Sometimes in England, people look down at the Europa League, but being from the continent, I've always realised what an important competition it is. — Simon Mignolet Copy Share Image
“There is a scene in one of the Rocky movies where after the match Apollo Creed and Rocky are waiting for the scoring of… — John A. Passaro Copy Share Image