One score makes happy ONE player, one assist makes happy TWO.
With a book called 'Keeping Score,' I really did want to write a book about the Korean War, because I felt that it is the least understood war in the American cultural imagination. So I set out with the idea that Americans didn't know much about the Korean War and that I was going to try to fix a tiny bit of that.
Think of business as a good game. Lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.
Most of my music is improvisation, and composition is improvisation. Even if I have a score, it is improvisation.
When you control the ball you control the score
You have got to shoot, otherwise you can't score.
Getting to a higher spiritual level is like increasing your credit score. You get a lot more points for sinning and repenting than if you have no credit history at all.
I am the servant of my score.
My grand plan is that I can master having a better life by making sure I have a regular flow of songs. Then I can give myself time to tour or celebrate or write a film score.
Somewhere there's a score being kept, so you have an obligation to live life as well as you can, be as engaged as you can.
Nobody ever tells me to give them a pass or anything. My job is to score goals, and if I don't shoot the puck, I can't score goals.
Some's bastards, some's ain't. That's the score.
Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.
The pulpit is not a place to settle scores, it’s a place to preach the word of God.
I urge pupils when studying a work and in order to master its most important aspic, the rhythmic structure, or the ordering of the time process, to do just what a conductor does with the score: to place music on the desk and to conduct the work from beginning to end as if it were played by someone else, an imaginary pianist with the conductor trying to impress him with his will, his tempo first of all, plus all the details of his performance.
Grace cannot prevail. . . until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed.
This year we plan to run and shoot. Next season we hope to run and score.
Eighty per cent of teams who score first in matches go on to win them. But they may draw some - or occasionally lose.
One learns more from a good scholar in a rage than from a score of lucid and laborious drudges.
When people score films, the job is to be visual. When people make music, it's about evoking feeling. It's great when you get both feelings and being out of their head.