I don't have beef with nobody... You know when it's beef, because then we just start playing scoreboard, and nobody wants to play scoreboard.
If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.
We've been raised to compete, to want more! More! More! It's a way of life. It's about greed.
Money. The ultimate motivation. The ultimate way of keeping score.
I've always felt like an outsider across the board, since day one. The challenge has been to simply not pay attention to my outsider or insider status and just do the work and play the shows and connect with the people. And not even bother to play this game of keeping score, which is what destroys you.
For the exploitation of human greed, they have devised comparison and competition. Right from childhood on, we are indoctrinated to compare and compete, and there is a word, a phrase: 'free and fair competition.'
I'm a keep-score guy; I always have been.
There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
Who's counting? It was, of course, the minority who were counting. It always is. Most of the women I know today would dearly like to use their fingers and toes for some activity more enthralling than counting. They have been counting for so long. But the peculiar problem of the new math is that every time we stop adding, somebody starts subtracting. At the very least (the advanced students will understand this) the rate of increase slows. ... The minority members of any group or profession have two answers: They can keep score or they can lose.
We're all constantly keeping score. You can't help it. But trying to pit ourselves against other people in some measurable way is largely a waste of time.
Grace cannot prevail...until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed.
You try to stay within the rules for the sake of the game, but you can always turn up the intensity.
