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Quotes About Ranking

Como los chimpancés, la gente rastrea y recuerda quién está por encima de quién. Cuando las personas dentro de un orden jerárquico actúan de maneras que niegan o subvierten ese orden, lo podemos sentir instantáneamente, aunque nosotros mismos no hayamos sido directamente perjudicados.
~ Jonathan Haidt
we care about money not so much because of what it buys as because of where it ranks us among our peers.
~ Jonathan Rauch
For a few years when I was at Cleveland Clinic, it was on the top ten U.S. News list for geriatric medicine even though we didn't even have a geriatrics department!
~ Eric J. Topol
It takes a certain type of person to register your 'Donkey Kong' score. So I'm just number 29 in registered Donkey Kong scores.
~ Will Forte
When humans are ranked instead of linked, everyone loses.
~ Gloria Steinem
As rich Cahill superstars went, Fidelio Racco was definitely on the B-list. Maybe even the D-list. Google had heard of him, but a search for his surname placed him below Racco Auto Body in Toronto and Trattoria Racco in Florence, and only slightly ahead of the Rack O'Lamb Irish Chop House in Des Moines.
~ Gordon Korman
Whatever the test, whatever the evaluation, FN-2187 consistently scored in the top 1 percent.
~ Greg Rucka
That's the biggest one the Worlds, second is the World Matchplay and then you'd have to say the Premier League I think.
~ Adrian Lewis
If I hadn't won at the Worlds and claimed so many ranking points, I would have been struggling for Rio. I'm in a good place now, though, and having the chance to fight for gold in Rio after everything I've been through would be a dream.
~ Bianca Walkden
The day after the worlds I was more relieved that Id won and become world No 1. But its different now. The next target is to win the Premier League and to defend my world title.
~ Gerwyn Price
The big push for me is the Olympics this year. If I'm healthy, I'm not worried about my ranking. I think I can hit the ball. It's just about my body cooperating. It's about being able to play matches in a row. Right now, I'm not sure how much I can do with that, but we'll see.
~ Venus Williams
So, you know, I think that Democrats are being more successful in Congress and I'm really going to be proud of the role I will play tomorrow as ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee when this bill passes.
~ Jane Harman
Before Google, I don't think people put much effort into the ordering of results. You might get a couple thousand results for a query. We saw that a thousand results weren't necessarily as useful as 10 good ones.
~ Sergey Brin
We came up with the notion that not all web pages are created equal. People are -- but not web pages.
~ Sergey Brin
My greatest thrill? That's easy. It came the day Mr. McGraw named his 20 all-time players. I'm ninth on that list and that is thrill enough to last me a lifetime.
~ Freddie Lindstrom
All are wines Wagner himself enjoys. At least one is under $10 and two are over $50. "Over the past eighteen years, every time," he told me, "the least expensive wine averages the highest ranking, and the most expensive two finish at the bottom." In 2011, a Gallo cabernet scored the highest average rating, and a Chateau Gruaud Larose (which retails from between $60 and $70) took the bottom
~ Mary Roach
in 2003, when Khodorkovsky attempted to talk to Putin about corruption, the global organization Transparency International ranked Russia as more corrupt than 64 percent of the world's countries:
~ Masha Gessen
Corruption Perceptions Index of the watchdog group Transparency International, reaching 154th out of 178 by 2011 (for the year 2010).
~ Masha Gessen
If a monkey leaves the troop it is born into, it has no chance to inherit its mother's rank. Therefore, high-ranking females will have young of whatever gender stays at home in order to pass on the high rank to them. Low-ranking females will have young of whatever gender leaves the troop in order not to saddle the young with low rank.
~ Matt Ridley
The USDA's ranking of foods by antioxidant capacity lists small dried red beans as having the highest antioxidant capacity per serving size of any food tested; in fact, of the four top-scoring foods, three were beans (red beans, red kidney beans, and pinto beans).
~ Jonny Bowden
Opportunity hoarding is the term for this, and it takes the form of admissions procedures, testing, tuition costs, licensing, ranking, and all sorts of credentialing.
~ Eula Biss
Relevance is a search engine's holy grail. People want results that are closely connected to their queries.
~ Marc Ostrofsky
For me, Thiago Silva remains the best defender in the world.
~ Dani Alves
I remember when the results of the All India Engineering exams came out. I ranked 7th. I even got a scholarship. But it was during the sixth semester of my engineering course that I decided to call it quits and pursue acting seriously.
~ Sushant Singh Rajput