Score Quotes - Page 20

• Think of business as a good game. Lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.

  Bill Gates

  Business, Thinking, Games

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• The net promoter score of health insurers averages 4/100. Amazon is 74/100.

  Joshua Kushner

  Average, Amazon, Lessons

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• Efficiency is anything that scores.

  Bruce Lee

  Efficiency

  Bruce Lee, John Little (1997). “Jeet kune do: Bruce Lee's commentaries on the martial way”, Tuttle Publishing

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• Even the best team, without a sound plan, can't score.

  Woody Hayes

  Team, Sound, Plans

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• Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Art, Literature, Audience

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• You must master the habit of procrastination and eliminate it from your wake-up. This habit of putting off until tomorrow that which you should have done last week or last year or a score of years ago is gnawing at the very vitals of your being and you can accomplish nothing until you throw it off.

  Napoleon Hill

  Procrastination, Accomplish Nothing, Should Have

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• A good score should have a point of view all of its own. It should transcend all that has gone before, stand on its own two feet and still serve the movie. A great soundtrack is all about communicating with the audience, but we all try to bring something extra to the movie that is not entirely evident on screen.

  Hans Zimmer

  Views, Should Have, Two

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• A clean, hard-fought wrestling match is the most honest of athletic contests. There is no technological interventions, no teammates to blame, no panel of judges to bias the score. In wrestling, you compete or you quit. No alibis. I like that

  Dan Gable

  Wrestling, Judging, Athletic

  Gable, Dan (1998). “Coaching Wrestling Successfully”, p.25, Human Kinetics

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• If Manliness had a soundtrack, the score would be metal.

  Maddox

  Would Be, Soundtracks, Metals

  "The Alphabet Of Manliness". Book by Maddox, September 1, 2009.

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• If I score against Liverpool I will not celebrate.

  Fernando Torres

  Celebrate, Liverpool, Ifs

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• The clock is just as much a part of the game as the board and pieces, and losing because of time-trouble is no different to losing because of weak play -- it's still a zero on the score-sheet.

  John Nunn

  Zero, Games, Play

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• Certainly our job as an offense to try to score points and that's running the ball, throwing the ball, whatever it is. Somehow, someway we've got to try to score points to help our team win. That's where the focus is and it's pretty easy just to focus on that.

  Peyton Manning

  Running, Jobs, Team

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• Over the years I've studied the habits of golfers. I know what to look for. Watch their eyes. Fear shows up when there is an enlargement of the pupils. Big pupils lead to big scores.

  Sam Snead

  Eye, Golf, Years

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• If we want to change things, we must first change ourselves. If we want to play - if we want to change the world - we must first show up on the field to score.

  Paul Rusesabagina

  Play, World, Want

  "Oprah Talks to Paul Rusesabagina". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. March 2006.

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• Good teams don't care about who scores. Good teams just care about scoring; they don't care who does it.

  George Karl

  Team, Care, Doe

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• Is Stephen Harper using the imagined fear of widespread security threats to score political points before the next election?

  Elizabeth May

  Political, Next, Election

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• Winning Forever is not about the final score; it's about competing and striving to be the best. If you are in this pursuit, then you're already winning.

  Pete Carroll

  Winning, Forever, Finals

  Pete Carroll, Yogi Roth, Kristoffer A. Garin (2011). “Win Forever: Live, Work, and Play Like a Champion”, p.39, Penguin

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• If you think back to the first sporting event you went to, you don't remember the score, you don't remember a home run, you don't remember a dunk. You remember who you were with. Were you with your mom, your dad, your brother, on a date?

  Mark Cuban

  Mom, Running, Brother

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• Progress depends as much on our collective differences as it does on our individual IQ scores.

  Scott E. Page

  Differences, Progress, Doe

  Scott E. Page (2008). “The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies”, p.26, Princeton University Press

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• It is common, and encouraged by many journals, for research to be judged by the impact factor of the journal that publishes it. But as a journal's score is an average, it says little about the quality of any individual piece of research.

  Randy Schekman

  Impact, Average, Quality

  "How journals like Nature, Cell and Science are damaging science" by Randy Schekman, www.theguardian.com. December 09, 2013.

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• I reached this level by sheer dint of hard work, toiling away at scores of tricks and experiments. I used to play with the ball from dawn till dusk and just kept practising. If I wasn't playing matches, it was trying out one on one or two against two with a tennis ball. Then I used to try aiming at certain targets. That's the only way to learn. And if I missed the target, I kept trying until I scored

  Zinedine Zidane

  Hard Work, Two, Play

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• Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Men, Years, Three

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• There's no such thing as an ugly goal. Ugly is to not score one.

  Dada Maravilha

  Goal, Ugly

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• There are scores of books offering 'solutions' to sprawl. Their authors would do well to read this book.

  Witold Rybczynski

  Book, Offering, Wells

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• I got to score goals and get points. I got to get on the board somehow.

  Stephen Weiss

  Goal, Boards

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