compete against
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One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.
I wanted no part of politics. And I wasn't in Berlin to compete against any one athlete. The purpose of the Olympics, anyway, was to do your best. As I'd learned long ago... the only victory that counts is the one over yourself.
I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to compete against it.
The performance of Reliance shows an amazing trend when mapped against time. The inflection point was 1991. We grew exponentially, eventually becoming India's biggest private enterprise, on the basis of freedom to compete against the best in the world.
As a professional journalist who nonetheless champions a 'people's' Internet, I am happy to compete against the thousands of amateur bloggers out there reporting and commenting on the same stories I do.
When you compete against everyone else, no one wants to help you. But when you compete against yourself, everyone wants to help you.