1.
Put a good person in a bad system and the bad system wins, no contest.
W. Edwards Deming
'Insert a morally upright individual into an immoral structure and the result is certain: the unethical foundation will triumph.'
3.
The life contest is primarily a competition for available energy.
Ludwig Boltzmann
5.
There is a point in every contest when sitting on the sidelines is not an option.
Dean Smith
6.
Great contests generally excite great animosities.
Livy
7.
I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
Joseph Conrad
8.
Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere.
John Szarkowski
9.
The Academy Awards are obscene, dirty . . . no better than a beauty contest.
Dustin Hoffman
10.
In a contest between me and a bulldog, you would say the bulldog is cuter.
Sylvester Stallone
11.
I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
Benazir Bhutto
12.
Less than seventy-five years after it officially began, the contest between capitalism and socialism is over: capitalism has won.
Robert Heilbroner
13.
I didn't get hurt in the contest. I hurt it the next day.
Jimmy Piersall
16.
The presidency is more than a popularity contest.
Al Gore
17.
Contests allow no excuses, no more do friendships.
Ibycus
18.
Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both.
William Cowper
19.
Playing guitar is not a beauty contest.
Ernie Isley
20.
I'm not in a contest. I make movies. I'm not a racehorse.
George Lucas
21.
What you ride and how you choose to ride is such a dynamic part of what this contest [ Ultra Natural] is built for.
Travis Rice
22.
You are in a partnership with all other human beings, not a contest to be judged better than some and worse than others.
Wayne Dyer
23.
We do not live in a revolutionary time. People are not prepared to contest power.
Edward Snowden
24.
Good thing it's a fight and not a modeling contest or you'd be f#cked.
Matt Serra
25.
You have to believe in what you are saying. Maybe they will like it or not but they cannot contest that what you are saying is true.
Jean-Christophe Maillot
26.
Elections are not a beauty contest. It is all about tolerance.
Vladimir Franz
27.
I think politics in general are just like a popularity contest but McCain is just... old.
D. L. Hughley
28.
The great contest for the presidency is about the future, who can lead, who can get things done.
George W. Bush
29.
I really idolize everything my sisters do,so I went into singing contests and won also. That's how I really got into singing.
Coco Lee
30.
It looked to me like a vamp version of a pissing contest. Men will be boys.
Faith Hunter
31.
I am happy for there to be a leadership contest. I think there should be.
Gordon Brown
32.
It is the contest that delights us, and not the victory.
Blaise Pascal
34.
I`m 100 percent impartial. I`m - my responsibility is to manage this primary nominating contest neutrally and fairly.
Hillary Clinton
35.
It's not a contest, and I ain't on no conquest for no mate.
Eminem
36.
Politics is that rare sport where the amateur contest is actually more interesting than the professional.
Lawrence Lessig
37.
I never count countries. Travel is not a contest.
Andrew Evans
38.
Good advertising is a happy wedding of words and pictures, not a contest between them.
Leo Burnett
39.
It was like he was in a contest to see who could do the least work, only he was the only contestant.
Catherine Gilbert Murdock
40.
I don't even need to do anything; I am always amped to skate. Always amped to be competing. I love competing - that's what I do. Any contest, it doesn't really take much. Just get me on the course and I'll get going.
Ryan Sheckler
42.
I'm really interested in revamping the Supernatural contest, so I'm going to put a lot of effort and energy into that going forward.
Travis Rice
43.
I won the first contest I ever entered, when I was 6.
Ryan Sheckler