Score Quotes - Page 10

• We all want merit to mean something, and we all may be tempted to reduce that meaning to something measurable and concrete like an SAT score. The reality, though, is that who deserves entry into an institution depends on what the institution exists to do.

  Eric Liu

  Mean, Reality, May

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• Mi regla de oro en el trabajo en red es sencilla: No lleves la cuenta.

  Harvey Mackay

  Simple, Networking, Golden

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• American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East.

  David Mamet

  Fútbol, Fútbol, Mudanzas

  "Ultimate fighting: the final frontier" by David Mamet, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2007.

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• I grew up in athletics, where people keep score.

  Phil McGraw

  People, Grew, Athletics

  "Biografía/ Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• La vida es un deporte de contacto, y hay un marcador en el tablero.

  Phil McGraw

  Sports, Boards, Life Is

  Phil McGraw (2013). “The Ultimate Weight Solution: The 7 Keys to Weight Loss Freedom”, p.266, Simon and Schuster

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• I joined Facebook purely so I could play online Scrabble. You have eight tiles instead of seven, so you tend to have higher scores. I'm somewhere between 400 and 500.

  Moby

  Eight, Play, Scrabble

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• Somewhere there's a score being kept, so you have an obligation to live life as well as you can, be as engaged as you can.

  Bill Murray

  Life, Obligation, Wells

  "Bill Murray talks FDR, cheese and the meaning of life". Interview with Tom Huddleston, www.timeout.com. January 29, 2013.

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• Los padres de uno de mis amigos del colegio tenían un campo de minigolf, y unos cuantos niños jugábamos allí todo el día en verano. Dos bajo dos era una buena puntuación.

  Jack Nicholson

  Summer, School, Kids

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• Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be able to tour forever, so a logical step is to get into writing film scores. Trouble is, you need to be somewhere which has a big film industry - another reason why I'm thinking about living in California.

  Gary Numan

  Escribir, Artista, Pensar

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• Late payments also hurt your FICO score. And never, ever take out a cash advance on your credit card.

  Suze Orman

  Hurt, Cards, Credit

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• Las compañías de tarjetas de crédito están aumentando los tipos de interés, reduciendo los límites de crédito y cerrando cuentas, y las personas que han pagado puntualmente no están exentas. Por lo tanto, aunque pague su saldo -y eso es difícil cuando los tipos de interés son increíblemente altos-, hay muchas posibilidades de que su límite de crédito se reduzca drásticamente, lo que perjudicará a su puntuación FICO.

  Suze Orman

  Herir, Personas, Equilibrio

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• I have always advocated doing everything possible to pay off credit card balances; it's good financial management and the ticket to a strong FICO credit score.

  Suze Orman

  Strong, Balance, Cards

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• I love, love, love that you want to use your debit card. But to keep your credit score solid, you still need to keep a few credit cards and use them at least once every few months.

  Suze Orman

  Needs, Cards, Use

  "Suze Orman: Are you making these financial mistakes". Article by Suze Orman, www.cnn.com. May 27, 2010.

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• A penalty is a cowardly way to score.

  Pele

  Inspirational, Soccer, Winning

  Quoted in Peter Ball and Phil ShawThe Book of Football Quotations (1989).

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• When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score.

  Enoch Powell

  Emotion, Stomach

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• My goals are to hit .300, score 100 runs, and stay injury-prone.

  Mickey Rivers

  Running, Goal, Injury

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• I can score 20 points if I want to, but that's not my desire.

  Dennis Rodman

  Motivational, Basketball, Desire

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• Massachusetts children cannot only lead the nation in test scores, they can be competitive with the best in the world. And the gap in achievement among races can virtually disappear.

  Mitt Romney

  Children, Race, Achievement

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• The important thing is to be there, score when needed. It's better if the goals are beautiful, better still if they are important.

  Wayne Rooney

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Goal

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• I remember being a little kid sitting in the living room with my brother and some friends from around the neighborhood, and I would sit at the piano and as they were running around the room doing different things and being silly, acting out, I would actually play the score for it - the music that went along with it.

  Mike Shinoda

  Running, Brother, Silly

  "Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda Rocks on to New Challenge: 'The Raid: Redemption' Film Score (Q&A)" por Todd Gilchrist, www.hollywoodreporter.com. 21 de marzo de 2012.

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• One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.

  Navjot Singh Sidhu

  Gambling, Six, Dice

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• The world is a bell curve. Classroom test scores, employee performance in a company or how many people really, really like you. No matter the population you're studying, they always fit neatly across the standard deviations of the famous bell curve.

  Simon Sinek

  Curves, People, Population

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• I really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Writing, Want, Casts

  "Maestro of Broadway". Interview, www.achievement.org. July 5, 2005.

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• Con mi rendimiento académico en el instituto, me aceptaron con bastante facilidad en Princeton y con la misma rapidez en Yale, pero mis resultados en los exámenes no eran comparables a los de mis compañeros. Y eso lo demuestran las estadísticas, hay razones para ello: hay sesgos culturales incorporados a los exámenes, y esa fue una de las motivaciones del concepto de discriminación positiva para tratar de equilibrar esos efectos.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Motivación, Escuela, Yale

  "Videotaped remarks shed light on Sotomayor" por Charlie Savage, www.sfgate.com. 11 de junio de 2009.

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• I am a product of affirmative action. I am the perfect affirmative action baby. I am Puerto Rican, born and raised in the south Bronx. My test scores were not comparable to my colleagues at Princeton and Yale. Not so far off so that I wasn't able to succeed at those institutions.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Baby, Yale, Perfect

  "Sotomayor Praises Affirmative Action". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. June 12, 2009.

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