Games Quotes - Page 11

• I used everything as a positive
  to make me a better person and
  a better player. I have no regrets.
  Everytime I had to play a big game,
  I played a big game. I used some of
  the skepticism as a positive and motivation.

  Chris Osgood

  Motivation, Regret, Player

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• I make plenty of mistakes and I'll make plenty more mistakes, too. That's part of the game. You've just got to make sure that the right things overcome the wrong ones.

  Warren Buffett

  Mistake, Overcoming, Plenty

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• I am impressed and distressed at how passive hierarchical organizations make people. There's often a lot of overt activity, but it's not going anywhere, it's game-playing. It's play-acting at work.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Play, Organization, People

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• If one believes philosophers, then what we call religion is only a deliberately popularized or an instinctively artless philosophy. Poets seem to consider religion rather as a variation of poetry which by misjudging its proper beautiful game takes itself too seriously and one-sidedly. Philosophy, however, admits and recognizes that it can begin and complete itself only with religion. Poetry seeks only to strive for the infinite and despises worldly utility and culture, which are the true antitheses of religion. Eternal peace among artists is thus not far away.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Beautiful, Philosophy, Believe

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• He may travel who can subsist on the wild fruits and game of the most cultivated country.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Travel, Simplicity

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.665, Simon and Schuster

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• It is far more than a game, this cricket.

  Neville Cardus

  Cricket

  1981 A Fourth Innings with Cardus.

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• Cricket more than any other game is inclined towards sentimentalism and cant.

  Neville Cardus

  Cricket, Cant

  Quoted in Sir Rupert Hart-Davis Cardus on Cricket (1977).

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• Until I came to IBM, I probably would have told you that culture was just one among several important elements in any organization's makeup and success - along with vision, strategy, marketing, financials, and the like... I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game, it is the game. In the end, an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value.

  Lou Gerstner

  Business, Makeup, Organization

  "Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?: Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround". Book by Louis V. Gerstner Jr., 2002.

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• The game of power is played remorselessly by men who have not the slightest knowledge of, or interest in, the way ordinary people live, and the ordinary people are too terrified to protest.

  Robert Payne

  Men, People, Ordinary

  "The Corrupt Society - From Ancient Greece To Present-Day America". Book by Robert Payne, "A Vision of the Uncorrupted Society", p. 279, 1975.

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• In elective politics, it's up or out. You go up the ladder, or you get out of the game.

  Edward Brooke

  Ladders

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• Physical beings want things to be the same. They want people to think the same. You work rather hard at sameness, but you will never win that battle because, from Nonphysical, diversity is known to be the most beneficial part of the game.

  Esther Hicks

  Change, Thinking, Winning

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• politics can be an ugly game, and in a national election the stakes get higher while the tactics get lower.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Getting High, Tactics, Ugly

  Geraldine Ferraro, Linda Bird Francke (1985). “Ferraro: My Story”, p.33, Northwestern University Press

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• You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else's mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for data collecting.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Government, Data, Mail

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• That will change over time the entire flow of information and the entire quality of knowledge in the country and it will change the way people will try to play games in the legislative process.

  Newt Gingrich

  Country, Play, People

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• Giving advice is like playing pinball: only by pushing and pulling can you encourage the ball to go in a new direction and increase your score. But too much pushing and pulling can cause a tilt and stop the game.

  Chip R. Bell

  Giving, Advice, Balls

  Chip R. Bell (2002). “Managers as Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning”, p.96, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.

  S. Jay Olshansky

  Zero, Zero Sum Game, Cures

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• Few artists are able to accurately assess just how valuable and great their work is - or how much it will be appreciated by its audience. In other words, insecurity is the name of the game.

  Suzanne Falter-Barns

  Artist, Names, Insecurity

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• Politics in a democratic society should not be treated like a baseball game, a game show or a soap opera. The times are too serious for that.

  Bernie Sanders

  Baseball, Soap, Serious

  Bernie Sanders (2016). “Our Revolution: A Future to Believe in”, p.101, Profile Books

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• By drop out, I mean to detach yourself from involvement in secular, external social games.

  Timothy Leary

  Mean, Dropping Out, Social

  Timothy Leary (1968). “The Politics of Ecstasy”

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• The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and delight in the presence of certain divine laws. It perceives that this homely game of life we play, covers, under what seem foolish details, principles that astonish.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Law, Play, Principles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.101, Harvard University Press

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• Watching a ball game is one of the sweetest pleasures in the world.

  Silvia Tennenbaum

  Sports, Balls, World

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• Decorating is like math, a game of adding and subtracting.

  Charlotte Moss

  Math, Design, Decorating

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• To have a knight planted in your game at K6 is worse than a rusty nail in your knee.

  Efim Bogoljubov

  Knights, Nails, Chess

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• Oh! full Surrey twilight! importunate band!
  Oh! strongly adorable tennis-girl's hand!

  John Betjeman

  Girl, Twilight, Hands

  'Subaltern's Love-Song' (1945)

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• Substances like LSD, which give away a secret about the nature of the social game - the human game and what underlies it - are potentially dangerous, of course, like any good thing is. Electricity is dangerous, fire is dangerous, cars are dangerous, planes are dangerous, but not so dangerous as driving on the freeway. The only way to handle danger is to face it. If you start getting frightened of it, then you make it worse. Because you project onto it all kinds of bogeys and threats which don't exist in it at all.

  Alan Watts

  Fire, Giving, Car

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