Pet Quotes - Page 6

I was a dog in a past life. Really. I'll be walking down the street and dogs will do a sort of double take. Like, Hey, I know him.

I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition.

Order is repetition of units. Chaos is multiplicity without rhythm.

You are not competing with anyone else. You are only competing with yourself to do the best with whatever you have received.

I kind of imagine myself at eighty, a cat lady.

Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool.

I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.

People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

Communicate. Listen to your customers, associates and competitors.

What is more refreshing than salads when your appetite seems to have deserted you, or even after a capacious dinner — the nice, fresh, green, and crisp salad, full of life and health, which seems to invigorate the, palate and dispose the masticating powers to a much longer duration.

I have a wonderfully hedonistic appetite, and if I wasn't really strict with myself, I'd weigh 300 pounds. I'm not good with moderation.

Competition is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get along. And they are therefore not first-rate actors. The good actor is the one who competes, willingly, who enjoys competing. An actor must compete, or die...Peacefulness and the avoidance of trouble won't help in his acting. It is just the opposite he must seek.

Why should antitrust laws be used to block mergers that the market, by the existence of willing buyers and sellers, shows to be desirable?

The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied.

How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul.

I'd rather have an inch of a dog than miles of pedigree.

Dogs are us, only innocent.

Now to explore the limits of the one competitor above everyone else you've always loved to face: Steve Prefontaine.

Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage.

People differ not only in their ability to do but also in their 'will to do'.

The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself.

Environmentalists hate sprawl - except when it comes to the size of their expansive pet legislation on Capitol Hill.

You might not be able to outthink, outmarket or outspend your competition, but you can outwork them.

After my first day of competition I put on compression socks. They help me recover for the next day.

Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts.