Quotes About Points

for as long as self-doubt is not paralysing, it also allows for alternative points of view to be given their proper weight and consideration and so can be considered a vital step in any sound decision-making process.

If you can qualify on the pole or in the front, you have a better chance of getting five points for leading a lap or leading the most laps.

On Quora, you're not answering questions because you want to get points or because you have nothing else to do.

I've got a big serve, a hard serve, and quicker points as opposed to longer points.

We were creating a formula for points racing, and that wasn't good in qualifying for the Chase, and it wasn't good when we got to the Chase. We wanted to change that, and we also wanted to fix a couple things. One of them was that we didn't want to have a bad race or two take somebody out early on in the Chase, which has happened every year.

While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line, two or more may compete at particular points.

I think playing in front of crowds and in a competitive league, getting a feel for the senior dressing room where there's points up for grabs every week and players are fighting for their futures helps.

You want to make as many plays as you can just to help your team to get points on the board. If that happens you're going to naturally gain confidence.

If a goalkeeper can save you 15-20 points a season, his value is high. It's like a striker scoring 20 goals a season.

They are thought pictures -- the outstanding headlands of the meandering shores of life, and are points to steer by on the broad sea of thought and experience. They body forth in living forms and colors the ever varying lights and shadows of the soul.

Obviously, people say offense wins games, defenses win championships. But I think, at the end of the day, if you score more points than the other team, you're going to win.

Road wins are critical, and it's huge for you as a team when you can pick up three points on the road.

We have, therefore, directed the Irish Army authorities to have field hospitals established in County Donegal adjacent to Derry and at other points along the Border where they may be necessary.

What I would pay much more attention to are the few points where the player can inadvertently make a career decision. Most players end up back-tracking, though some actually enjoy this.

The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points.

And these blast points, too accurate for Sand People. Only Imperial stormtroopers are so precise.

I don't mean to be gross, but the only time it's good to yell "I have diarrhea" is when you're playing Scrabble because it's worth a shitload of points.

I give you points for persistence, but you lose a few for being slow on the uptake. (Rae)

What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.

This offense is all about scoring points.

He believed you could do everything by formulas and fourteen points. God Himself was content with ten commandments

Giving a point to a team that has not conceded an outright win is not that great an idea. When an outright result cannot be reached, the points should be shared between the two teams.

To think with pleasure of his niece's husband having a large ecclesiastical income was one thing—to make a Liberal speech was another thing; and it is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

Well, politics is much more severe than entertainment. You have to hit those points, in politics, word for word. You have to remember the date. You have to remember the website. You have to rehearse stories that might be asked, have anecdotes ready for questions that might come up.