Quotes About Ranking

Know how to rank beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause.

Showing that they descend from common parents, and consequently must be ranked as varieties.

Several of the high schools consistently at the top of the rankings are selective enrollment schools, meaning that students must apply to get in, and only a small proportion of those students are accepted.

I have what I call A-list moments, but believe me, I'm still on the D-list.

My main motivation is to prove I'm No. 1 in the world.

Always someone lower.

Al final del mandato del presidente mexiquense, el país había descendido dos escalones del ranking de la economía mundial, situándose en el lugar 16. Y, en el Índice Global de Percepción de la Corrupción, México se instaló en el lugar 135, al lado de Honduras y Paraguay.

The Empire Strikes Back (grade: A+) A New Hope (grade: A+) Return of the Jedi (grade: A) Rogue One (grade: A) Revenge of the Sith (grade: A-) The Force Awakens (grade: A-) The Last Jedi (grade: B+) Attack of the Clones (grade: B+) The Phantom Menace (grade: B) Solo (grade: C)

the Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research at the University of Melbourne published the results of an extensive study of international money laundering.9 The authors compared the banking systems of two hundred countries. The Vatican ranked in the top ten money laundering havens, behind Luxembourg, Switzerland, the Cayman Islands, and Liechtenstein, but ahead of Singapore.

If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.

bottom of the list. No one there has a probability over ten percent. I've got a couple who hit low

My favorite Tyler Perry movie? Ugh, how can you decide? For me, it's basically like: Kurosawa, Tyler Perry, Martin Scorsese, in that order.

The UK has a poor investment record. According to IMF data, we have come seventh out of the top seven industrialised countries since 1999.

I am the best in the world. It's 1: Cody; 2: Kenny; 3: Okada; 4: Charlotte; 5: Cena, with Ospreay creeping up on the list. It's my responsibility with the event to live up to that ranking. I am unbelievably good at this because of hard work and dedication.

Spain are certainly one of the best teams in the world.

Notwithstanding the supposed egalitarian ethos of some hunter-gatherer societies, humans are a hierarchical social species. We care greatly about where we stand in comparison to some relevant reference group.

The top 10 is really a media thing anyway unless you're the champion, but otherwise, it's always speculation.

When you're No. 8 in the world, then you start losing some matches, I think it was the first time in my career my confidence went down, and from there it was a downward spiral.

I'm quite obviously not the world's most handsome man - I'm the second world's most handsome man!

"Slightly lower than the angels" is a whole lot better than slightly higher than the apes. Let's get the order straight. God, angelic beings, man, animals, and vegetables.

Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals who returned the questionnaire.

The Olympics owes its existence to the search for people who perform faster, higher, and stronger among us. Standardized exams, game shows, beauty contests, talent auditions, and the Forbes 400 all pit humans against humans, in rank order. Society offers hundreds, if not thousands of ways to show you're better than others.

First is the worst, second is the same, last is the best in any old game.

Rigid ranking based on minuscule differences misleads rather than informs. Rounding and approximation is superior to unwarranted and unnecessary precision. Doubt, caution, and incessant questioning are in order—but so is the insistence on quantifying the complex realities of the modern world. If we are to understand many unruly realities, if we are to base our decisions on the best available information, then there is no substitute for this pursuit.