Rating Quotes - Page 3

• The process of rating players can be compared to the measurement of the position of a cork bobbing up and down on the surface of agitated water with a yard stick tied to a rope and which is swaying in the wind.

  Arpad Elo

  Player, Wind, Water

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• Nobody Beats Us! served as our main trigger... We practiced using trigger words, private verbal keys, which unlocked certain thoughts for us. We had a half-dozen phrases-some dealt with maintaining our technique, two dealt with maintaining our technique, two dealt with our stroke rating. The most powerful phrase was 'Nobody Beats Us!' According to our plan, when I said these words to Paul toward the end of the race, we would immediately shift into our final sprint, rowing as high and hard as possible, straight through, until we crossed the finish line.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Powerful, Keys, Race

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• I hired Sarah Palin because she was hot and got ratings.

  Roger Ailes

  Hot, Palin

  "Sarah Palin landed job at Fox News because 'she was hot and got good ratings': Roger Ailes". Interview with Frazier Moore, www.nydailynews.com. October 5, 2011.

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• First, his job approval ratings have been trending down for many months, a trend that has accelerated in recent weeks as the war on terrorism has been supplanted in the public's mind by corporate scandals, stock market declines, and a growing sense of economic insecurity.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Jobs, War, Approval Rating

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• She's leaving when the president has one of the highest approval ratings on record. From here, it can only go down. And when it does, you know who they're going to blame. They're gonna blame Andy Card!

  Andrew Card

  Approval Rating, Appreciate, Leaving

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• They say sound is vibration and it got my mind shaking/ Can you feel it vibrating? I call it Vibe Ratings

  Capital STEEZ

  Mind, Sound, Vibrations

  Song: Vibe Ratings, Album: AmeriKKKan Korruption: Reloaded, 2012

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• One measure of the greatness of a work is that the characters who play roles in the narrative feel its essential truth. As someone who is proud to have been there during much of the action David Sepkoski describes, I give his description and analysis of the history of paleobiology a five-star rating; to my mind, this actually was the way it was.

  Niles Eldredge

  Stars, Character, Greatness

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• We should devote ourselves to being self-sufficient and must not depend upon the external ratings by others for our happiness.

  Bruce Lee

  Self, Should, Depends

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.68, Tuttle Publishing

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• This was the story of Howard Beale: The first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings.

  Paddy Chayefsky

  Men, Stories, Firsts

  "Fictional character: Narrator". "Network", www.imdb.com. November 14, 1976.

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• Facts are, insurance ratings are really dependent on the notion that some people are higher risk than others.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  People, Risk, Facts

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• One should not associate with controversy; one should always reach for the highest ratings; one should never forget that there is safety in numbers; one should always remember that comedy, adventure, and escapism provide the best atmosphere for selling.

  Peter George Peterson

  Adventure, Numbers, Safety

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• We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

  David Hyde Pierce

  Good Day, Legs, Skiing

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• We got great ratings and fan interest, and that's what management wanted.

  Trish Stratus

  Fans, Management, Interest

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• Scores do not reveal the most important facts about a wine. The written commentary (tasting notes) that accompanies the ratings is a better source of information than any score regarding the wine's style and personality, its quality level relative to its peers, and its relative value and aging potential.

  Robert M. Parker, Jr.

  Wine, Relative Value, Personality

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• At a time when our country is waging two wars, approval ratings for Congress are at historic lows, unemployment is at a 70-year high and financial institutions have collapsed around us, I can't imagine anyone seriously opposing a National Day of Prayer.

  Franklin Graham

  Country, Prayer, War

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• Attempts to help humans eliminate all self-ratings and views self-esteem as a self-defeating concept that encourages them to make conditional evaluations of self. Instead, it teaches people unconditional self-acceptance.

  Albert Ellis

  Self Esteem, Acceptance, Views

  Albert Ellis (1990). “The essential Albert Ellis: seminal writings on psychotherapy”, Springer Publishing Company

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• No no there wasn't any planned 14th season, we all saw the writing on the wall. The ratings had been going down and so fourth, that curve goes on every show and in everybody's life.

  Larry Hagman

  Wall, Writing, Curves

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• The only women I publicly date are those who have a higher IMDB rating than me.

  Zach Braff

  Higher

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• The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings.

  Norman Lear

  Sex, Demand, Violence

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.

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• It's like this, by not giving my album a classic rating, you diminish your magazine's credibility. And that's real.

  Kanye West

  Inspirational, Real, Giving

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• Don't worry about your rating, work on your playing strength and your rating will follow.

  Dan Heisman

  Learning, Worry, Chess

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• I think FoxNews ratings are a reliable guide to the attitudes of the American electorate.

  Reese Schonfeld

  Attitude, Thinking, Guides

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• Torbjorn (Hansen, Magnus Carlsen's first teacher) himself went from 2104 to 2204 in rating during the year he trained with Magnus. This reflects the experience I have had. One learns nearly as much from teaching others.

  Simen Agdestein

  Teacher, Teaching, Years

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• Unless a player has an 'understanding chess' rating of at least 2400, the amount of significant knowledge that he can impart on others is limited.

  Edmar Mednis

  Player, Understanding, Chess

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• The days of waking up and reading the overnight ratings are over.

  Dawn Ostroff

  Reading, Wake Up, Waking

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