Top 1000 Approval Rating Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I'm needy, I need approval in everything I do.

When you start to get shareholders, clients, employees, rating agencies, and everybody converging, and then your competitors bad-mouth you, you know you did the right thing.

We are monitoring the global companies on a daily basis, and their rating continues to be investment grade. We will take immediate action if anything goes wrong.

I can just remember games as a young player, counting my stats on the sideline. 'What am I now? I'm this many completions for this many attempts. I wonder what my rating is.'

If California ever developed a vineyard rating system, Saxum's James Berry Vineyard would be classified as one of the best.

Reforming PERA will strengthen and improve Colorado's all-important long term standing with credit rating agencies.

Television will do anything for a rating... anything!

I’m torn. I want an ‘R’ (rating) because we can get a lot of cool scenes into it, but then I like the idea of younger girls being able to see it.

Self-approval is a dangerous state of mind.

Don't allow the approval and attention of others to destroy you.

You don't have to wait for anyone's approval to do things.

You know that your toddler needed love and approval but he often seemed not to care whether he got it or not and never seemed to know how to earn it. Your pre-school child is positively asking you to tell him what does and does not earn approval, so he is ready to learn any social refinement of being human which you will teach him....He knows now that he wants your love and he has learned how to ask for it.

The world is filled with terrible things that can influence children, and movies have depicted them since time immemorial. Should every terrible thing warrant an R-rating?

I became an overachiever to get approval from the world.

The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.

A time-tested political tactic guaranteed to raise a president's popularity rating by at least 30 points. It is especially useful during election years and economic downturns.

I don't need approval from people who don't know me.

Comedy is a very approval-oriented field.

I didn't realize how limiting an R rating is. I made 'Disco' as a cautionary tale for 14- and 15-year-old girls, and those girls were not allowed to see the film by their parents.

The whole 'R' rating depends on a strange sort of fantasy land where all adults are responsible people, and children only ever go to the cinema with their parents.

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.

Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.

He [Newt Gingrich] is the most unpopular politician in America. His favorable rating is only four points higher than the Unabomber.

Congratulations, Congress! 77% disapproval rating! You may be about to become the English language's most offensive C-word.

I wanted this to have as wide an audience as possible. I didn't want to get an X rating, because in my opinion once that happens you X-out everyone else.

The once-unthinkable loss of the AAA rating will constitute a further hit to already fragile business and consumer confidence.

You should seek approval from yourself.

There are two things you will never be without: One is your reputation and the other is your credit rating.

I do have very strong, very conflicted feelings about rating systems and social media.

Don't look to the approval of others for your mental stability

Adults should be intelligent enough to know what they want - if you don't like it, then don't consume it. A rating system for kids and teens is more important. Especially for violent shows.

Hey, if I had my choice for social engineering, I'd declare an automatic R-rating for any movie that depicts television commercials. There's a truly dangerous influence on our children.

I don't need anyone's approval for going to elections.

Issue by issue, if I were a Congressman, I would receive the highest rating from liberal think-tank Americans For Democratic Action.

Compliant children are very easily led when they are young, because they thrive on approval and pleasing adults. They are just aseasily led in their teen years, because they still seek the same two things: approval and the pleasing their peers. Strong-willed children are never easily led by anybody--not by you, but also not by their peers. So celebrate your child's strength of will throughout the early years...and know that the independent thinking you are fostering will serve him well in the critical years to come.

It is an honor to be awarded with such a high rating from an organization as well respected as the NAACP. I am pleased that the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the nation, has recognized my voting record.

The pursuit of approval usually ends in disaster.

I don't seek approval from anyone else.

Appreciation, applause, approval, respect - we all love it!

As anyone who has recently seen PG-13 movies knows, the level of violence in them has increased to the point of making the Motion Picture Association of America's voluntary rating system meaningless.

Side note to parents: Anyone who thinks 'Dude, Where's My Car' is more appropriate for children than 'American Pie' because it obtained a PG-13 rating needs to stop trusting the MPAA.

Pornography: That which excites, whether from approval or disapproval.

Your customers are judging every aspect of every transaction and rating everything, from friendliness of people to ease of doing business to quality of product to service after the sale.

I'm not going to go mystery shopping in the NHS because we have a million people every day using it and rating its facilities.

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.

A movie that gets a PG-13 rating can show someone running down a street killing 27 people. And there are no repercussions.

I am an approval junkie.

Give your approval to all you cannot understand.

Whenever I do a deal I always have the right of approval.

If a rating is bad in another sport, do you see a writer say, 'This sport's over?' No.

There is a hunger in every human being for approval.

As a quarterback, I appreciated the passer rating whether you threw the ball a majority of the time or if you didn't throw it as much. You were judged on a level playing field, and I thought teams should be ranked similarly.

The concentration of all seven behind the stroke should be so strong that you know by feel when that stroke has varied his style or rating without the cox announcing it.

We all want approval.

Eroticism is the approval of life unto death.

I've been playing NBA Live since I was little, and I won't lie, I always play with the team with the highest rating.

When you look at a Congress that has an 84 percent disapproval rating, that means that for the most part, the people of this country, and certainly California, are looking for new leadership.

You have to be great to get Doyle's seal of approval.

Regardless of what our national credit rating is, people will always want a roof over their heads, food on their tables, fuel for their cars, and clothes on their backs.

As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.