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.
The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.
The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another´s treachery.
I use a credit card for everything - and I choose one of the ones which gives you money back.
Humanity is actually much more cooperative and empathic than [it's] given credit for.
I think we give human beings too much credit. We're primates, you know.
One tends to give one's fingers too little credit for their own good sense.
I have to give credit to Hector Camacho. He's a much better fighter than I anticipated.
I believe that comedians do what they do, and then they get credit or criticism for doing it. There's nothing planned about this.
Printed media and other media indicated that Mr. Ellison was going to use the Koran, and that generated scores and hundreds of emails to my office. And so I thought it very important to state my view. And my view is that I don't subscribe to the Koran, and I will now be using the Bible when I take the oath.
I was watching fights on TV one day with my oldest son and we watched a ring announcer announce a split decision where he gave the winning scores first, so he took away the drama. So my son said: 'Dad you could do that,' and the light went off in my head and I decided to contact promoters and got my foot in the door.
It seem like everybody dress tight now,
And I just want my credit.
Christianity isn’t moving people’s lives today. What’s moving people’s lives is the stock market and the baseball scores. What are people excited about? It’s a totally materialistic level that has taken over the world. There isn’t even an ideal that anybody’s fighting for.
It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit.
Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go, Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!
Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill.
I have always said that a striker scores a goal but not every goal is scored by a striker. A goalkeeper can make a mistake which is a goal, but every goal still goes past him and you have to accept that.
Second, when comparing private school and public school test scores, it's like apples and oranges. Public schools have to take everyone, but private schools can be selective. It's not accurate or fair to compare the job they do.
I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.
The credit goes to the designers and my hardworking stylist who makes me look perfect.
For whatever crispness and animation my writing has I give some credit to the cartoonist manque.
I'm always the favorite heading into fights. My accomplishments don't get credit because I'm supposed to win.
It's amazing how much credit you can take, if you don't care about accomplishing anything.
Musicals don't get enough credit for being so surreal. It's like an alternate universe.
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
No one ever taught me and I can't teach anyone. If you can't explain it, how can you take credit for it.
They're coming out of high school exhausted. The pressure in high school is killing these kids. By the time they get to college, they have been fighting for three or four years to get the perfect SAT scores and get into A.P. classes.
No one ever taught me and I can't teach anyone. If you can't explain it, how can you take credit for it?
I pay my credit cards in full every month - as well as all my bills and mortgages.
The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
A credit card is a convenient device that saves you the trouble of counting your change.
I credit Kansas City with my work ethic and learning from the amazing artists that are in that town.
I don't totally believe that all of the politicians see a problem with the gap between the scores of black children and other groups. I believe that many politicians think this has been the way it has always been, so what's the problem?
The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit.
First impressions are often signals from the deep that we should credit oftener than we do.
I've got a great coaching staff behind me too and they deserve a lot of credit.
On the third day after someone dies, the soul comes back to settle scores. In my mother's case, this would be the first day of the lunar new year. And because it is the new year, all debts must be paid, or disaster and misfortune will follow.
I personally know of scores of cases (of alcohoics) who were of the type with whom other methods had failed completely....because of the extraordinary possibilities of rapid growth inherent in this froup they may mark a new epoch in the annals of alcoholism. These men may well have a remedy for thousands of such situations.
Physical money, whether it's checks or cash or credit card, are digitizing in front of us.
When Bach died some of his children sold his scores to the butcher they had decided the paper was more useful for wrapping meat. In a small village in Germany a father brought home a limp goose wrapped in paper that was covered with strange and beautiful symbols.
All of a sudden, I was a young kid in my early 20s, and I had a couple of Broadway shows to my credit.
You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.
Drake revived 'Top Boy,' if I'm honest with you. You've got to give him a lot of credit.
Democrats get credit for money coming into the state, but I do a lot of heavy lifting.
Poetry is another space, like love, where we extend that extra credit to the writer.
No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.
Smallness of mind is the cause of stubbornness, and we do not credit readily what is beyond our view.
For me the best kind of film music is liturgical music. Liturgical music is essentially a million scores for the same film.
Our own actions are the accidents of fortune that we sometimes place to the credit of luck or misfortune.
Our daughters have always been a credit to us. And I am so proud of them.
Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine.
Sergio Ramos is very good. I know him very well: great defender, great with the ball. Van Dijk is also the same: so strong, very good in the air, scores goals. Two big players.
Liberals get credit for good intentions, and that's about it, because everything they do fails.
The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.
In Japan, it's strange to openly take credit for giving to charity or even to donate publicly.
Who quick be to borrow and slow be to pay, their credit is naught, go they ever so gay.
To my credit, I think I'm a gentle control freak. Maybe even a little manipulative.
Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.
Old models of farming with chemicals and credit mostly favored privileged men.
It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.
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