Nancy Pearcey Quotes

There's competition in every field, and that's healthy. It makes you work harder and be your best. Competition, not in terms of money or number of projects, but in the quality of your work, is very healthy.

Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.

Competition makes us all better and better.

For sure, competition is healthy. It is! It keeps everybody on their toes. It keeps everybody sharp.

Average is Your Enemy.

Performance is something we all strive to be better at. I'm no different than that. Who wants to look bad?

I'll say it loud and proud: AEW has raised the bar. Everyone is doing better, because they have come along.

Competition definitely brings out the best in you.

The way to get things done is to stimulate competition. I do not mean in a sordid, money-getting way, but in the desire to excel.

To become successful and outstanding at something, we don't have to come up with something new; we need only find ways of doing it better.

If there wasn't any competition, I'd be very worried, because it would mean we were not doing very well.

It's very easy when you have someone in front of you that you can chase. You want to be No. 1 but now I feel like I have to play well because everybody looks at you as a best golfer. So that's why I put more pressure on myself.

If you're playing with the best, you just rise up to that level.

Anytime you ride against the best in the world, it becomes a learning process.

I think that anything that leads to creativity and good work is good.

It's good to have high-quality competition. It helps drive research forward at a faster pace.

If you do anything for 40 years, you can do it comfortably. And it will always be good. But unless you're willing to risk it being bad, it can never be great.

Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.

If you're willing to do it as good as you're willing to think up to do it, that's what your mind is there for, and you deliver excellence right now, now being the only moment you can control or do anything with or be creative with.

I want to run with the best, that's how I've always lived.

I always thought records were there to be broken.

I am only about winning and getting better.

As I said this year, I didn't try to put any pressure on me by setting high goals or anything, I just want to make sure that every single time I'm out there on the court I do my best, I give 100%, and see where it's going to end up next year.

Both 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report,' you're working with the best. When you work with the best, you have to raise your game. If you're working with people who are sub par, you're not forced to give 100 percent because you can get by on 80 percent.

Although it's only the beginning of the championship, I am very surprised at my capability.