Playing Games Quotes - Page 2

• I mean I'm talking about playing games, about imagining other people, and it's part of the way that it helps you actually see the world.

  Simon McBurney

  Mean, Talking, People

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• I would like the world to remember me as the guy who really enjoyed playing games and sharing his knowledge and his fun pastimes with everybody else.

  Gary Gygax

  Fun, Guy, World

  Interview with Allen Rausch, pc.gamespy.com. August 16, 2004.

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• Software development takes immense intellectual effort. Even the best programmers can rarely sustain that level of effort for more than a few hours a day. Beyond that, they need to rest their brains a bit, which is why they always seem to be surfing the Internet or playing games when you barge in on them.

  Joel Spolsky

  Effort, Surfing, Intellectual

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• Play is the taproot from which original art springs. It is the raw stuff that the artist channels with all his learning and technique.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Art, Spring, Technique

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.42, Penguin

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• You have played enough; you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart.

  Horace

  Drunk, Enough, Gaming

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• We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.

  Vera Nazarian

  Lying, Differences, Joy

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• Games give you a chance to excel, and if you're playing in good company you don't even mind if you lose because you had the enjoyment of the company during the course of the game.

  Gary Gygax

  Giving, Mind, Chance

  Interview with Allen Rausch, pc.gamespy.com. August 15, 2004.

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• The Democrats are standing on one side, and the Republicans are playing games on the other. Both sides are playing games.

  Mark Shields

  Sides, Republican, Democrat

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We want playing our games to entertain people on many different levels. Deeper down, I want to make a connection with the player, and it's the way, to me, of saying to the person playing the game that they're not alone in the world.

  Tim Schafer

  Player, People, Connections

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• If you are a gamer, it’s time to get over any regret you might feel about spending so much time playing games. You have not been wasting your time. You have been building up a wealth of virtual experience that, as the first half of this book will show you, can teach you about your true self: what your core strengths are, what really motivates you, and what make you happiest.

  Jane McGonigal

  Regret, Book, Self

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• And even if she says no, and really means yes, then quite frankly she's playing games and isn't worth the price of dinner.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Mean, Dinner, Ifs

  Stephen Chbosky (2012). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

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• The next time you're mad at me, talk to me,' he said. 'Don't shut me out. I don't like playing games. And by the way, I had a great time, too.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Mad, Way, Next

  Nicholas Sparks (2014). “The Last Song: Student edition”, p.222, Hachette UK

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• Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her.

  Mia Hamm

  Girl, Sports, Volleyball

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• For a long time at Nintendo we didn't focus as much on online play because for many years doing so would have limited the size of the audience that could enjoy those features. But certainly now we see that so many people are connected to the Internet. It opens up a tremendous amount of possibilities.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Years, Long, People

  "Divining What’s Next for Video Games". Interview, www.nytimes.com. March 11, 2013.

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• When you're connected to a source and to each other through conversation, through making love, through meditation, playing games with your kids, all that stuff, then your self-esteem's going to go up.

  Jack Canfield

  God, Self Esteem, Kids

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• I think I just have an idea in my head about how big an adventure game should be, so it's hard for me to design one that's much smaller than Grim Fandango or Full Throttle. There's just a certain amount of scope needed to create a complex puzzle space and to develop a real story. At least with my brain, there is.

  Tim Schafer

  Real, Adventure, Thinking

  "Press Start: Double Fine kickstarter lacks cash, Japan to get Xbox One in 2014, and more" by Keith Stuart, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2013.

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• Except for its backward compatibility with existing Wii software and accessories, we have so far failed to make propositions worthy of Wii U's position as a successor to the Wii system.

  Satoru Iwata

  Accessories, Wii, Worthy

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• Everybody is playing games. There are games now for pretty much every age, every demographic.

  Jesse Schell

  Games, Age, Demographics

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• Gaming has kind of evolved a bit. More people play on portable devices. Where we might go in the future, we'll see. Customers love games. I'm not interested in being in the console business in what is thought of as traditional gaming. But Apple is a big player today and things in the future will only make that bigger.

  Tim Cook

  Player, Apples, People

  "Apple CEO Tim Cook in the Hot Seat at D". Interview with Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg, allthingsd.com. May 29, 2012.

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• Most snarky critics had their minds set before ever seeing/playing the game. I'm proud of what we created; it's innovative, responsive & fun.

  Tony Hawk

  Fun, Mind, Proud

  Twitter post from Dec 5, 2009

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• I would like to take the opportunity today to thank you for your assistance in helping us to reshape the future of Xbox One. You told us how much you loved the flexibility you have today with games delivered on disc. The ability to lend, share, and resell these games at your discretion is of incredible importance to you. Also important to you is the freedom to play offline, for any length of time, anywhere in the world.

  Don Mattrick

  Xbox, Opportunity, Important

  "XBox One, Netflix, Charles Schwab: Why Consumer Collaboration is Key in Business". www.wired.com. June 2013.

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• Gamers co-author the games they play by the choices they make and how they choose to solve problems, since what they do can affect the course and sometimes the outcome of the game.

  James Paul Gee

  Games, Play, Choices

  "10 Truths About Books and What They Have to Do With Video Games" by James Gee, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2011.

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• Waltes is still played, which is a bowl and dice game that's traditional for this area.

  Richard Dyer

  Dice, Casinos, Stills

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• Role-playing games are contests in which the players usually cooperate as a group to achieve a common goal rather than compete to eliminate one another from play.... Role games ... bring players together in a mutual effort.

  Gary Gygax

  Player, Goal, Effort

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