You have many Ayn Rand quotes listed below. She is the author of many books: Atlas Shrugged, Fountainhead, and Anthem to name a few. Her books have created and caused many emotion filled conversations. I would like to pick one quote from the list below. Copy the quote into your comment box and then respond to it. Do you agree or disagree? Why or why not? Does it ring true? Why or why not.
It stands to reason that where there’s sacrifice, there’s someone collecting sacrificial offerings. Where there’s service, there’s someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter. So long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one another — their only substitute, if they abandon money, is the muzzle of a gun.
From this simplest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from a single attribute of man — the function of his reasoning mind.
Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Man’s unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself. If a drought strikes them, animals perish — man builds irrigation canals; if a flood strikes them, animals perish — man builds dams; if a carnivorous pack attacks them animals perish — man writes the Constitution of the United States. But one does not obtain food, safety or freedom — by instinct.
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. Their goals differed, but they all had this in common: that the step was first, the road new, the vision unborrowed, and the response they received — hatred. The great creators — the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors — stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought was opposed. Every great new invention was denounced. The first motor was considered foolish. The airplane was considered impossible. The power loom was considered vicious. Anesthesia was considered sinful. But the men of unborrowed vision went ahead. They fought, they suffered and they paid. But they won.
I swear by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
Watch money. Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion — when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing — when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors — when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you — when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice — you may know that your society is doomed. Money is so noble a medium that is does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It will not permit a country to survive as half-property, half-loot.
So you think that money is the root of all evil? ... Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can’t exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil? —Ayn Rand
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"From this simplest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from a single attribute of man — the function of his reasoning mind."-Ayn Rand
I agree with the above quote because I believe that everything today has come from reasoning minds. The mind of all can create amazing things.
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter. So long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one another — their only substitute, if they abandon money, is the muzzle of a gun.
I agree with the above quote because it is very true. Without money as a counterbalance in peoples lives, buying and selling things would be impossible. The only other option would be to steal or kill for it.
"for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter. So long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one another — their only substitute, if they abandon money, is the muzzle of a gun,"-Ayn Rand.
I agree with this quote above. I say this because money is pure evil. It is honestly so devious. The reason I say this is because that is all our society is concerned about, is money. Everyone is so concerned in their wealth and who is the richest. People seek for money nowadays, rather than valuing the good of earning it. Like the quote is saying,"If they abandon money," - then they will focus more on the more important aspects in life, such as; having good will, compassion and respect for others.
Chelsea Durr 4/5
Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
I agree with the quote above. Competition isn't right on any level except in sports. Gymnastics is all about competition. First you compete against your own team mates for a spot on the top six to compete for your team. While competing for your team, you also compete against other schools and their teams. To me this statement is true. I feel it is true because competition is in our nature, but sometimes people take it to far. Those people just thrive on the ability to say "I'm better then you". That isn't right. We need to stop competing against eachother because theres no point.
-Megan Chiara 4/5
"Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others."
I agree. If someone is competing for something, they really do want to achieve it. To beat the others is a plus. For example, I study because I want to get good grades. Being able to say I got the highest grade in the class is a bonus after the fact. I do not study with that goal in mind.
Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
I completely agree with this because there is no pride in competition. You do what you do to make yourself better and for self-fullfillment. This is a true statement and i feel that people who do things to compete are really unhappy and are insecure about themselves.
-Madison Smith 3*
"Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others."
I agree with this quote in its entirely. I believe it to be true because back in earlier times, people did not start making sports or games so that it could be turned into competitions and be competed in to find who is best at it. It was out of curiosity that these things came to be and the fuel for them was to enjoy yourself. It rings true in older society, but not the society we live in today. People around the world have capitilized on compitition in sports, academics, and many other things. The drive people have to do something is mostly out of competition and the perseverance you gain when trying to outdo your adversary. Most athletes strive to be their best, but they are motivated by the bright lights and attention we give them when they can beat someone else that is good at the same thing. Their hard work is not out of self oriented goals. So no I do not believe this quote to ring true.
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter. So long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one another — their only substitute, if they abandon money, is the muzzle of a gun.
I agree and see truth in this quote because money is actually our savior. Humans today are made to be materialistic. It is in our blood to buy as much as money allows us to. If money were to be taken away, there would be chaos. It is true that "the only substitute, if they abandon money, is the muzzle of a gun."
"Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men"
I beleive that it is ones choice to let an object or someone control them no matter the situation. Everyone is made differently and has differnt ideas and functions differntly. The definiton of Civilization is defined by everyone differently due to the fact it is constantly changing.
"for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil"
I agree with this quote because money is the cause of problems. The world revolves around it and if you don'thave it you can't survive. Everyone is obsessed with it, the world would be a better place if we lived like we did in the 50s, when money wasn't so important and college wasn't so expensive.
"From this simplest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from a single attribute of man — the function of his reasoning mind." – Ayn Rand
I agree with this quote because most things that we have formed in society have come from someone’s head. An example as to why I think this is true is that in the 1600s, a man named Sir Isaac Newton developed a number of fundamental laws and formulas on how the physical universe could be governed. These ideas of his are still used today and have proved to be a great advancement in the scientific community. He even made a branch of mathematics called Calculus, which most students still struggle with today. This was a dare from a friend to see if Newton could prove why planets travelled in an ellipse and not a circle. Anything that a man can think up can become something that will attribute to the reasoning mind of society. This example brings this quote to be true.
"Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others."
I agree with this statement. I believe that no GOOD man is motivated by the desire to beat others. I believe a creative man is motivated by his desire to achieve because that makes him independent and wanting to succeed for the good of himself and possibly mankind. One who wants to achieve holds a deeper and more meaningful motivation than one who wants to take others down. When one is motivated only by the desire to beat others, he is then controlled by others and by the World around him; which leads to a mentally sick and twisted individual.
Erica Jacks 7-8
"From this simplest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from a single attribute of man — the function of his reasoning mind." -Ayn Rand
I agree with the quote, everything we see around us in today's society is the result of mankinds work, we gave numbers their value to explain what mere words could not, in turn, the numbers and letters, mere squiggles on the paper, have made world changing results. Of course, there are limits, we can't always use mankind's ideas to produce baseless worries, the world may or may not end at any given time, much less the imaginary numbers and words we created which gave meaning, then numbers will keep moving so long as there is someone there to move them.
-EJS 3rd period
Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
This is the only statement that I brought myself to agree with on any level. I found that all of the quotes seemed "off".
I agree with this one because of the other people I have met in my lifetime. I have never found a truly successful man who was "to competitive". All of the richest people I know were all for other people, and they would always think before everything. They would think before they talked, before they acted, and before they planned. Everything they did was thought threw and wise. So I agree that the desire to achieve is more of a motivation than the desire to compete.
"I swear by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."
I agree with this quote and I think it rings true. You can't live life for another person, you should only live for your own. You only have one life, and it shouldn't be used by controlling or being controlled by others.
"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)."
I completely agree with this statement. There are many things in which the individual has no say. What you want or what you believe to be the best outcome of a circumstance, tragedy, or election, may very well not be what happens. WE can continue to speak our voices, but if they are never heard, then they are good for nothing.
Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
I agree, I think that a man is motivated by desire to achieve. Most men want to be successful and be able to achieve great things for himself or a family. But on the other hand I think men could be competitive for different reason, not for desire to beat others jus the desire to have fun.
Competition is a by-product of productive work,not it's goal.A creative man is a motivated man by the desire to achieve, not the desire to beat others.
I agree with this statement.everybody wants to beat others in something an by doing that it's either earning a tittle or trophy.when you leave this world you can't take anything with you.so it's what you leave behind and what you achieve in your lifetime.
I swear by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
This quote i agree with. I agree with this because it shows you how you shouldn't live your life for someone else that you should live it for you. I think nowadays people are so caught up in trying to please people that they forget what they want to do. Society is calling for people to be superior and live the fullest life you can live. its becoming about money and wealth when we over look the easy things. This qoute should be lived by and i think that it lives true.
"Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others." People should work for their sake not to compete against others to see who can do better at what. We all work at diffrent paces and different work environments. We should want to achieve more then compete during work. We work to achieve milestones in life and be succesful.
"Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter. So long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one another — their only substitute, if they abandon money, is the muzzle of a gun."
I disagree with this quote. The problem that I have with it, and the problem that I have with all of Rand's work is the incredulous amount of absolutism that heralds things like the virtue of selfishness. Being a progressive liberal, that is something I'm intrinsically against. My point is, there is no reason to be so assertive and blunt, I just find it cold and callous. There are many different ways to look at a topic as broad as money, and to speak in such absolutes is excessive, to say the least. That's my issue with her writing and philosophies in general, but with this quote in particular, my problem stems from the root. There is more purpose to humanity than just applying monetary sums to objects. It's nonsensical to say that man cannot be inherently good. Human's are not driven by greed, but in a world so invested in capitalism, consumerism, and marketing how could they be driven by anything but.
Steven Price 4/5
I swear by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
I agree with the thought behind this quote. If you live to make someone else happy you are not really living. Life is about making your own choices and mistakes. Without them we would not learn. If we ask others to live for us we take away who they are. Their free will is gone and I believe that is something no one should ever do. Everyone deserves to live their own lives.
Nicole Rouge
"I swear by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine"
I agree with this quote because why would you want to live your life under somebody else? I feel like you should live your life independent.
Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
I believe this is true to some people, those who are competitive to prove you can do something but some people are competitive to prove they are better than others.
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter. So long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one another — their only substitute, if they abandon money, is the muzzle of a gun.
I agree with this. Money is power. It is the means of many relationships established between a buyer and a seller, producer and consumer. It makes the world go round. If money didn't exist, what else would we have to pay debts with other than violence and other assertions of power. Money is not necessarily evil, although much of the power struggles involving money are. People will always be on the pursuit of aquiring money. Their motives may not always be for good, but I would rather be able to pay off a debt with currency than with my life.
"Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others."
I completely agree with this quote! You do what you do to because you really want to achieve it. I feel that people who do things to only compete are only trying to show off. If you happen to beat someone that is a plus, but it is not the goal.
Kristina M. 1*
I swear by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
I agree with this quote, and belive it is one that people need to keep in mind often. You can not live for others, you have to do what makes yourself happy and what will be the best for you, even if some people view that as being selfish. Just as you can not expect other people to live the way you want them to and do exactly what you tell them to, you can not do that for others.
--E.Zaranec 7/8
"Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others." I think to most people this is true but really in this world we shouldn't be living by this type of system. Yeah out beating others motives you even more to get to a goal and work harder but the only person in this world you have to be better than is the person you were yesterday. That's it that should be the only motivation you need. The need to be better than what you were
Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
I agree with this quote because first you have to be able to create something of worth, then competition is formed when people try to best the creation. Although I do believe competition is good for advancement.
Mike Combs 1
"I swear by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."
I agree that you can't live your life as someone else. Nor someone can try to be you, everyone has to be who they were made to be the challenge of life is to be true to yourself as others are true to themselves
"Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men."
I think is a very interesting quote, and I would agree with it. When looking at how society has changed over time, one thing that stands out is the fact that people have gained more and more privacy and independence. People move to the suburbs to get bigger houses and more space, but how many of their neighbors do these people actually speak to on a regular basis? Although civilization may fulfill man's desire for privacy and personal property, in some ways "setting man free from man" can be very negative, as people are focused more on themselves than others.
-Jimmy Rutkowski 2nd period
"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)."
One thing that must be protected in democracy is freedom of choice. Freedom of choice is made possible by possessing individual rights. For example, the right to bear arms. This individual right has been reduced directly and indirectly for years by ignorant politicians. It is this right that protects us from majorities and though oppression and rebellion may seem alien to the United States today it is irrelevant. Individual rights should account for all freedoms all the time. The majority oppressing the minority, which is today the national government against gun owners, is dangerous. The majority has used its influence to spread propaganda in an effective way. Because they have convinced enough people many don't see it as necessary, that freedom, and believe it's a bad thing. Now that right has not actually been taken away because that would be too direct, but all the same the majority is making it so difficult to have that right that it often is denied to the minority. I don't think that the second amendment should have ever been diminished. It is an example of what Ann Raynd says about individual rights.
"Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others."
I agree with this quote because competition is made from people wanting to achieve the same thing. However, someone who wants to create something does not have the mindset of wanting to do better than other people when they set out to do whatever it is they want to do.
Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
I agree. If you are working hard to simply beat others, you are doing it for the wrong reason. I don't think the idea of beating people would motivate me to put more effort into something. It is what you wish to get out of it that matters.
"I swear by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."
In a perfect society no one would be selfish. However, many people are. When someone disagrees with another, they argue and insult until one person conforms to the other's opinions or until they both agree to never speak again. It takes a rare person to respect that others want to live for themselves, with their own opinions and outlooks. I say a lot that is contradictory, and rarely do I find someone who disagrees with me and allows it to stay that way without trying to change me. I refuse to conform to another's point of view just to please them. I will never live as someone else wishes, and no one else should either. Instead people need to realize there are other stand points and different perspectives and allow people to live for themselves. It is difficult to respectfully disagree, but it is the only way to live peacefully.
Tia L.
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. Their goals differed, but they all had this in common: that the step was first, the road new, the vision unborrowed, and the response they received — hatred. The great creators — the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors — stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought was opposed. Every great new invention was denounced. The first motor was considered foolish. The airplane was considered impossible. The power loom was considered vicious. Anesthesia was considered sinful. But the men of unborrowed vision went ahead. They fought, they suffered and they paid. But they won.
I agree with this quote. because If all we had in the world were people who said "there is nothing left to discover" we would all sit be in our own native countries, no electricity, no water, with really not much of anything. Every generation we have a million people who think there really is nothing left to discover, but if there are even only a dozen who have the bravery to step out of their comfort zone to think, find, or do something new, then a new spark of an idea can be creative. It is also true that when this spark forms, most people reject it, it is our nature as humans to stick with what we are familiar with. but the ones who dare to brake the mold, and stick to their idea and what they believe could happen are the ones who will make the difference in society. This has rang true for centuries and will for many more because of this.
I swear by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
I agree with this quote. Everyone should love the life they live. No one can live someone elses life. Life is all about finding yourself, how can you find yourself when your trying to live someone elses life?
"Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others."
I disagree with this quote because people are so competitive nowadays that it's rediculous. Everyone is fighting just to be better than everyone else, instead of fighting to be the best they can be.
“Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. Their goals differed, but they all had this in common: that the step was first, the road new, the vision unborrowed, and the response they received — hatred. The great creators — the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors — stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought was opposed. Every great new invention was denounced. The first motor was considered foolish. The airplane was considered impossible. The power loom was considered vicious. Anesthesia was considered sinful. But the men of unborrowed vision went ahead. They fought, they suffered and they paid. But they won.”
I agree with this quote because those who could be open to new ideas and see change were the change. I find that anything can be accomplished if you try and want to accomplish it hard enough. People might not agree at first that some things are possible, but almost anything is. This quote also rings true. It was said we would never reach the moon at one point, but with a lot of struggle it was achieved. When the Beatles first started they were told everything that could be invented already had been by their first recorder and they were told they would never succeed. Although they struggled at first, they had success. Darwin’s ideas of evolution were mocked and unaccepted at first, but he did not give up, and now that is all schools teach. He was rejected by society and an outcast much of his life for his ideas although he is so well respected now.
"Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others."
I both agree and disagree with this statement. While I believe that the ultimate goal of productive work is not to create competition, I think that we are motivated sometimes by the desire to beat others, especially people that we don't like. The world has always been run by competition, even if we don't mean or want it to be; that's how the human race has come so far and achieved so much.
"From this simplest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from a single attribute of man — the function of his reasoning mind." --Ayn Rand
I agree with this quote because I believe a reasoning mind is what we should most celebrate about man. Society in modern times puts a lot of emphasis on passion and the emotional side. It's full of all this "truth is relative and dependent upon your belief in yourself and you should look deep in yourself to discover it" type of philosophies. The reasoning mind does not settle for subjective truth and feel-good statements. It traverses a higher path and drives humanity towards development. By operating in the logical realm where reality is real and truth is true, it cooperates better with the concrete laws of nature. A solid and reasoning mind facilitates the creation of all of the good man has made. If we do not have our logic, we do not have anything.
Christian Schick 7/8
"Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others."
I disagree with the main theme of the quote. Whether someone is motivated by their desire to achieve or their desire to beat others, both can achieve the same end result of success. I understand the message she is trying to convey, that someone who is more passionate about something should produce higher quality and more creative work. In reality, I think this can ring true, but it sometimes cannot. An example of this can be seen in the business world. A company like Apple is successful due to their passion about creating high, innovative products that customers will be happy with. On the other hand, take a company like Teva. Their business model runs off creating generic drugs and undercutting their biggest competitor Pfizer. Teva is still creating a quality product which their customers are happy with. The generic drugs have the same functionality while costing the consumers less. This company can clearly be successful and produce a product people want while being motivated by sheer competition.
Joey Marincek 7/8
"From this simplest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from a single attribute of man — the function of his reasoning mind."
As someone who comes from a strongly scientific background, this quote speaks to me in a way that none of the others do. I believe that our culture - the things in it, the people that make it up - are a direct result of people trying to figure out who they are and why they're on this place we call Earth. The technology and material advances of society are also driven by our attempt to reason out the world that surrounds us. In regards to religious belief, they provide a way to explain our existence. They provide a higher power that explains how we came into being, and also provide an explanation to what happens after our time on earth is up. I do not argue that one belief is better than the other, but that the themes common throughout all religions point to reasoning as a central (or at least a small) part of their motivation. Also, all of the scientific advances we have made have been a direct result of our need to understand the universe and how things work. Our rational minds wish to comprehend all that they can, and in doing so, they use this newfound knowledge to invent new technologies and machines. The need to understand what makes up everything - the atom and matter - lead to revolutions in chemistry, which lead, eventually, to revolutions in medicine. The need to understand what makes living things 'tick' lead to the formation of another branch of science - biology - which, combined with other things we have reasoned, has shown us what causes disease and much more. The need to understand how the universe is put together has given birth to astronomy. The list goes on and on. The common theme is that what we have - knowledge, and new technologies that branch from that knowledge - are a result of the rational and reasoning mind. By trying to reason through why things are the way that they are, and by trying to reason through why we, as humans, are here on the planet, we have given ourselves everything we have today. And, since we have always had and will always have this type of mind, this quote rings true today, and will continue to ring true as long as we are human.
"I swear by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."
I agree with this quote because a person should only live for who they are and not for anyone else. In the end all you truly have is yourself. You may be driven or motivated by others by a person should be an individual first before they include others in their life.
"Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others."
I think this quote is true because when you are competing you don't really know those people so you don't really want to beat them you just want to do better then then and come out with the time. In the end to get to the top you have to achieve greatness. It does ring true some times but can dot ring true sometimes. People are different and we all have a slitty different mind set. So some people can think it is and some not.
Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others
I agree, because competition is only okay when you are in school, a job or sports. More than likely if you are too competitive you will be the one to lose.
Mike Bernsdorf 1
"Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others."
I agree with this quote because when it comes to working hard at something, it is wanting to achieve your goal that drives you, and not wanting to beat your competition. It is not about beating other people, it is about beating yourself. Proving to yourself that you could achieve your goal is more important than proving that you can beat others. Doing better than you did the time before is the real goal, and this is what drives hard work.
"Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others."
I agree with this quote because when it comes to working hard at something, it is wanting to achieve your goal that drives you, and not wanting to beat your competition. It is not about beating other people, it is about beating yourself. Proving to yourself that you could achieve your goal is more important than proving that you can beat others. Doing better than you did the time before is the real goal, and this is what drives hard work.
Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. Yes I agree with the quote because the reason for competition is to show how people perform against one another based on how hard they practiced in order to achieve their main goal. Does it ring true? Yes and No because if you are talking about a person that is a good sport and does not play just to gloat in their face is saying that they suck then the answer is yes but, if you are talking about a trash talking no good person who only goal is to win at any cost necessary then your answer is obviously no.
"From this simplest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from a single attribute of man — the function of his reasoning mind." - Ayn Rand
I agree with this quote because in my mind, it practically defines the human race. In one way or another, everyone has had an idea that has impacted the world as we see it today. I am a strong beliver that anything and everything someone does has an impact on history, whether it be big or small. It just so happens that the big ideas are capable of creating a bigger impact.
"Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others."
I agree with this point. Even when we are competing against somebody else, our main motivation is to achieve something. If we didn't, then how would we be BEATING anybody? Like Ayn Rand said; the winning of the competition is the simple byproduct of a well-earned achievement.
"Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men."
I think this observation of society is true because creating civilization has led to man becoming more and more focused on himself and his needs rather than the needs of society as a whole. This selfishness could stem from owning things, which would lead to a society of privacy.
"I swear by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."
I do not agree with this because i think if you love someone you would be willing to live for that person. I also think that person would be willing to live for you also.
L.green
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the quote that I have picked is as follows:
"Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others." - Ayn Rand
I agree with this quote, in that the fact that I live it every day. I desire daily, in band, school, and otherwise to achieve, not to beat others. When taking part in a competition, beating others is nice, but the real reason to compete is to compete against yourself to make yourself better than before. Anyone in Marching Band would agree: beating others is nice, but the real reason we compete is to be better than ourselves last year, or even better than we were last competition.
"Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others"
I completely agree with the quote because when somebody uses competition to beat someone, these lose touch with what they are truly striving to do. By this I mean that they stop doing what they truly desire and start to do other things. That's why the desire to achieve is true motivation, what truly sparks the success. Due to the fact that they're doing something they like, and how they want to do it. Competing with no one but themselves.
I can not cody and past off of my phone but the quoat I chose was about competition. Many people out there are motivated by wanting to achieve but under wanting to achieve is the base of wanted to be better than others. Competition can be healthy but it can also get carried away.
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
I agree with this quote because making people civilized causes them to think for themselves and to try and be their own person instead of going with their tribe. I believe this quote rings true because civilization can set people free from the people around them.
Sean W.
I swear by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
I don't agree with this quote. A person living their life only for themself is a lonely existence. People need to work together for a common goal. It is the only way things will get done. If everybody does things only for themself, almost nothing would get done. Sometimes people need to sacrifice a little personal choice for the common good.
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