First comes an idea. Then, characters begin to evolve out of the landscape of that idea. And then, finally, characters dominate: plot is simply a function of what these people might do or be. Everything has to flow from their personalities; otherwise it will not be emotionally engaging, or plausible.
I can dominate a game at any point.
Every time there’s a competition, I want to be able to dominate it.
It’s very difficult for governments to dominate the Internet because it’s so difficult to control. People want to be free. People want to hear multiple voices. They want to make their own decisions. And people who see things will report things.
I think people don’t realise that running a piece of code that verifies some conditions for a financial transaction, that by itself is a lot less work than verifying a cryptographic signature, and so even if the virtual machine is inefficient, the cryptographic signature is still going to dominate.
My goal is to go out there and dominate. We all know if I’m in a position and I see my opponent hurt by landing good striking, I’m going to try to get him out of there. If I’m in the top position or in the position to finish by submission, I’m going to look for that. I don’t feel the need to prove the haters wrong.
It is very much in America’s national security interests to ensure that the Taliban do not dominate Afghanistan and that neither ISIS nor al Qaeda continues their growth in the country.
I feel like I could dominate the origami field. I think I have enormous potential in that area.
The effect of dominance is not always the result of an intention to dominate.
The game plan in every fight is to go out there and dominate.
I’ve never seen a player that can dominate a game the way LeBron James can. He don’t always have to score. He makes plays for other guys. But when the game is on the line, and you need a shot to be made, he’s going to make that play.
I’d love to be able to dominate cycling in general, not just one event.
As a 15-year-old teenage girl, I can attest to the fact that boys dominate most conversations between girls my age.
The first person I really saw dominate a game was Jerry Rice. And Michael Irvin.
We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evolution. We are part of evolution. Unfortunately, we believe that we’ve been created to dominate the planet, to dominate nature. Ain’t true.
The right question to ask from a Darwinian prospective is what was it about bipedalism that was so advantageous? Why did it lead to a – why did that adaptation ultimately lead to a species Homo sapiens that has come to dominate the planet today with six and a half billion people?
Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.
Governments go to war directly or by proxy without declaring war. Force, or threat of force, are constantly used to dominate other countries.
People say that Andrea Pirlo is the main player and that everything goes through him, but that’s an illusion. Pirlo is a brilliant player but doesn’t dominate Italy’s play as much as people say.
I dominate, and I break guys’ wills. When they come to fight me, they know they’re going to be in for a fight, and it’s going to be a test of wills.
Early investors in Uber and Airbnb, though they remain private companies, have valued them at stratospheric multiples based largely on the notion that Uber will transform and dominate local transportation and Airbnb will revolutionize the hotel industry.
I always say this to people: ‘If Shaq can be in the NBA for 19 years and dominate for 19 years using his body, why can’t I be in the music industry for 50 years using my brain when my brain is way stronger than anyone’s body?’ I have to have a successful record company, more hit records. I want to dominate the game.
The whole world has changed much since the ’80’s. In the united States, rap music and country music dominate radio and that certainly wasn’t the case in the early ’80’s.
