Good spectator sports share certain fundamentals. Their competitors battle head-to-head. Their winners are determined objectively: fastest runner, most points. They are refereed, not judged.
When you build your network, keep yourself open to new ideas, concepts, and theories. Some of them may even contradict and challenge long-held points of view. This isn’t beneficial only to someone in my profession, but to every line of work.
Nike came to me and said, ‘We’re interested in the decathlon and interested in seeing if we can help you get as close to 10,000 points as we can.’
India is a large market where our focus will be to grow faster than the market and add few percentage points to our market share every year.
I got an automatic breadmaker. It’s the greatest! I get more points for that. You computerize in the results you want, and it’s no fail. I’m a modern homemaker.
You look at 2001, we were third in points and no one gave us much of a chance when the season started. We came back last year and had the same team, the same everybody and led points.
‘The Underland Chronicles’ is an unnecessary war for a very long time until it becomes a necessary war, because there have been all these points where people could have gotten off the train but they didn’t; they just kept moving the violence forward until it’s gone out of control.
I say I write extrapolations. I look at data points and ask what the world could look like.
Statistically, the teams are getting the chunk plays – the explosives – are the teams that are going produce more yards and more points.
When I storyboard, they’re just fragments of thoughts. I write in three acts like a movie, so I have my plot points up on the preliminary storyboard.
If you look at what these politicians do when they speak, most of the time they are trying to convey a tone… if I make all these points and move my hands this way, I can get re-elected. When in reality, they aren’t saying anything.
Democrats were simply hoping to win some political points by getting their outlandish rhetoric published in the newspapers and heard on the talk shows.
Reality simply consists of different points of view.
To score points, you need a lot of consistent effort over the course of the game. If you’re throwing it or running it in, it’s not a big difference in terms of the score at all, obviously. But turnovers limit your scoring. That’s the problem with turnovers.
Looking back on it, now I can identify the points in my life when I wasn’t playing, and music – and didn’t have that outlet – those were the points when I was most unguided and self destructive because I didn’t have that channel to get those energies out. I’m a much healthier person when I play music.
I will argue my points; I will have my opinions. But at the end of the day, it’s the director’s choice.
I’m going to win or lose a match playing on my terms, playing my game, which is big and aggressive and trying to dictate points. Not shying away from that.
Rick Neuheisel was recruiting me, and he told me something, and I’ll never forget it: he said you make your money in the red zone. If you’re down there, that’s already three points, so don’t turn the ball over. I kind of took that to heart, and I’m always very careful in the red zone.
If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
There were points in my career where I thought, ‘Maybe I’m done. Maybe I’ve written everything there is to write.’ Now I’ve learned that it’s just working itself out. You have to let it do it.
I was a smaller kid when I was growing up so I had to learn some defensive skills. I had to grind a little bit and win points by scrapping it out.
Harper Collins gave me a letter of intent saying that they want me to pen down my autobiography. When I was recollecting the incidents of my life for that, I selected only those incidents which were turning points in my life. I staged it instead of writing it.
The biggest thing is winning. No matter what percentage, no matter what my numbers say in the sense of points, assists, rebounds and steals, it’s always been about winning.
Jay-Z is as politically correct as some of the politicians. He’s safe. There’s points when you’re acquiring financing, you make adjustments. He’s made those adjustments. It’s his choice. For me, it’s not a necessity.
Dani’s family are great, and I’m really lucky to have them as in-laws. But it’s definitely not all plain sailing. They are such big characters who aren’t scared to speak their mind, and we have different points of view at times, so we have to work through that.
The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
One day I’d have 20 points, the next day two points. I was dribbling the ball off my leg. I couldn’t understand why. The media started asking me, ‘Is this because you are a new dad?’ I didn’t want to blame my son. There are plenty of people in much worse situations, and they make it work. I have to do that, too.
Don’t be intimidated by people who seem to be experts. Hear their points of view and get their judgements. But at the end of day, you’ve got to make a judgement because it’s not their life that’s going to be affected so much as your future.
After preliminary research, I zero in on an idea, and then I spend at least four months exploring the topic and in plot-building. I jot down every single detail of the plot as bullet points per chapter, and only when the skeleton is complete do I start writing.
There are folks out there, especially during the political season, that’ll try to twist and turn economic statistics for their own personal benefit, to pick and choose talking points in order to tear Montana’s progress down.
You got to want to evolve. It’s something you can practice on but it just came to me. I wasn’t really sitting there like, ‘What can I do to get better?’ It just came to me, talking to my people and my crew. They just tell me what my strongest and weakest points are at.
Product downsizing in the face of inflation in order to maintain retail price points has long been used by food companies, notably manufacturers of candy.
Those who have heard or read anything from me on the subject, know that one of the principal points insisted on is, the forming of societies or any other artificial combinations IS the first, greatest, and most fatal mistake ever committed by legislators and by reformers.
People used to pooh-pooh the idea of a check-in, saying that this wasn’t interesting. But when you have 3 billion of those data points, you can take any latitude and longitude anywhere in the world, and I’ll tell you what is interesting now, 20 minutes from now, and 6 hours from now.
Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.
Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes.
There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points.
I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation than explained by human language.
In silent films, quite complex plots are built around action, setting, and the actors’ gestures and facial expressions, with a very few storyboards to nail down specific plot points.
At various points, in big ways and small, we get knocked down. If we stay down, grit loses. If we get up, grit prevails.
I only care about winning and putting points on the board.
I would say a lot of the emotion in what I do is a sort of a thankfulness for those energies being around, because there’s been points in my life when they weren’t around, and it’s a real sort of miserable existence.
When we get in the red zone, we have the mentality that we’re trying to get points. We’re not satisfied with three points. We’re trying to get touchdowns each time we get in there.
I pay higher premiums because my speeding points spell ‘recklessness’ to the insurance company, but you can’t imagine how risk-averse I am at the wheel. I only go over 30 at all because it’s dangerous to drive too much slower than everyone else.
It doesn’t matter who scores the points, it’s who can get the ball to the scorer.
I learned to write from different points of view and not just something I would say.
I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don’t plan right down to the chapters. I think that the characters write themselves in some degree.
I write something that I believe I’ve made up, and it’s only when a friend later points it out to me that I realise I’ve been writing about myself again.
I recited Pi to 22,514 decimal points in five hours and nine minutes. I was able to do this because of weeks of study, aided by the unusual synaesthesic way my mind perceives numbers as complex multidimensional coloured and textured shapes.
The thing about a plant is, let’s say it will have 50 or 100 little points of bright red. If you look at the thing as it goes down, it becomes green in a way… It is way more spectacular than pointillist paintings where these things are played with, but never to the level of what happens in nature.
