"I have always disliked the fierce competitive..." - Quote by Albert Einstein
I have always disliked the fierce competitive spirit embodied in that highly intellectual game.
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“What can the schools do to defend democracy? Should they preach a specific political doctrine? I believe they should not. If they are able to teach young people to have a critical mind and a socially oriented attitude, they will have done all that is necessary.”
“The comprehensibility of the world seems to me a wonder or eternal secret. Here lies the sense of wonder which increases even more with the development of our knowledge.”
“If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.”
More on Competition
“You made a big mistake by letting me come, because now I'm going after your job”
“There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.”
“The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead, to stand out. Such ambition has no use for a gung fu man, who rejects all forms of self-assertiveness and competition”
More on Individuality
“Dare to be different. Be a pioneer. Be a leader. Be the kind of woman who in the face of adversity will continue to embrace life and walk fearlessly toward the challenge.”
“The individual (no matter how well-meaning he might be, no matter how much strength he might have, if only he would use it) does not have the passion to rip himself away from either the coils of Reflection or the seductive ambiguities of Reflection; nor do the surroundings and times have any events or passions, but rather provide a negative setting of a habit of reflection, which plays with some illusory project only to betray him in the end with a way out: it shows him that the most clever thing to do is nothing at all.”
“If you are influenced by the opinions of others, you will have no DESIRE of your own.”