Playing Games Quotes - Page 4

• I've been playing games for 30 years, and I've been a hard-core gamer.

  Curt Schilling

  Years, Gamer, Hard Core

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• We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.

  Eric Hoffer

  Education, Teaching, Accomplishment

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot.

  Alan Beck

  Girl, Mom And Daughter, Motherhood

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• I love my home, just playing games and just sleeping. No matter where you go, nothing is better than sleeping.

  Rain

  Home, Sleep, Matter

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• I was thinking (when he hit his 500th home run) about my mother and dad, about all the people in the Chicago Cubs organization that helped me and about the wonderful Chicago fans who have come out all these years to cheer me on. They've been a great inspiration to me.

  Ernie Banks

  Running, Baseball, Mother

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• In Hindu philosophy the whole creation is regarded as the Vishnu Lila, the play of Vishnu. Lila means dance or play. Also in Hindu philosophy, they call the world illusion; and in Latin the root of the word illusion is ludere, to play.

  Alan Watts

  Philosophy, Latin, Mean

  Alan Watts (1977). “The essence of Alan Watts”, Celestial Arts Publishing Company

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• I have this little neighbor next door. He comes over and tells me about playing Call of Duty, and he's talking about, 'Aw yeah, I slit this guy in the throat and then I stuck a grenade up this guy's ass.' He's describing it in all this detail, and that makes me uncomfortable. I don't think that's good for him.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Thinking, Doors, Talking

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• I didn't meddle. If I did meddle there wouldn't be all this violence. All this horrible sexism in games.

  Lincoln Chafee

  Violence, Sexism, Horrible

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• When the computer and tablets are all about playing games, thats not interesting to me.

  Julianne Moore

  Interesting, Tablets, Computer

  "Julianne Moore On ‘Freckleface Strawberry,’ Kids And The Definition Of Bullying" by Emma Mustich, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2013.

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• We are moving away from myths and toward fantasy role-playing games, away from movies and toward videogames.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Moving, Role Playing, Roles

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In time, after a dozen years of centering their lives around the games boys play with one another, the boys' bodies change and that changes everything else. But the memories are not erased of that safest time in the lives of men, when their prime concern was playing games with guys who just wanted to be their friendly competitors. Life never again gets so simple.

  Frank Pittman

  Memories, Boys, Simple

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• Also, any older song, especially any World War II songs remind me of Mama. She goes around the house either whistling or singing all the time. It drives my sister Alice crazy when we're playing games and Mama does that while it's Alice's turn!

  Reba McEntire

  Song, Crazy, War

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• Did you hear that? I didn't hear anything. Put that question another way.

  Ernie Banks

  Baseball, Way, Another Way

  Sports Illustrated, August 23, 1982.

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• With pro-gaming that's one of the toughest parts - living game to game.

  Jeremy Lin

  Games, Gaming

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• It seems to me an utterly futile task to prescribe rules and limitations for the conduct of war. War is not a game; hence one cannot wage war by rules as one would in playing games. Our fight must be against war itself. The masses of people can most effectively fight the institution of war by establishing an organization for the absolute refusal of military service.

  Albert Einstein

  Military, War, Fighting

  Albert Einstein (2017). “Einstein on Peace”, p.132, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Volatility is a symptom that people have no idea of the underlying value-that they have stopped playing the asset game. They're not buying because it's a company with certain attributes. They're buying because the price is rising. People are playing games not related to any concept at all of what the long-term value of the enterprise is. And they know it.

  Jeremy Grantham

  Ideas, Long, People

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• I like words and numbers. I'm obsessed with them. You know, I think I would've been a mathematician had I kept up, but it's the stuff in your head, you know? It's like being technologically adept. You have it or you don't. You can learn it, but some people just have it. They go to sleep, wake up, and know everything. I like games, too. I love playing games.

  Jackee Harry

  Sleep, Thinking, Numbers

  "Jackée Harry on 227, Ladybugs, and why she wants to be the next Maggie Smith". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. February 26, 2016.

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• I think the first time I really heard poetry was in the schoolyard. Just the little limericks that kids say when they're jumping rope and playing games. I think that's the first time I heard rhyming words - I don't know if I'd call that the definitive poetry, but that's when I heard rhyming words said and not necessarily sung.

  Jill Scott

  Kids, Thinking, Jumping

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• By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

  Nate Silver

  Curves, Kind, Speed

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• President Obama has outsourced a major portion of the U.S. space program to the Russians. That's national policy. Taxpayer money. So let's stop playing games with this outsourcing distortion and talk about the fact that when we need is a president that knows how to manage big enterprise and create jobs.

  John Sununu

  Jobs, Space, President

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• Games are the most social of all things on the web.

  Fred Wilson

  Games, Social, All Things

  "Fred Wilson: Marketing". www.huffingtonpost.com. February 28, 2011.

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• The single biggest misconception about games is that they're an escapist waste of time.

  Jane McGonigal

  Waste, Wasting Time, Escapists

  "Video Games: An Hour A Day Is Key To Success In Life" by Jane McGonigal, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2011.

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• As popular culture becomes more presentist, we move away from entertainment as the vicarious experience of a narrative - as watching someone else's story - and much more toward enacting one's own story. Moving away from myths and toward fantasy role-playing games, away from movies and toward videogames.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Moving, Role Playing, Culture

  "Douglas Rushkoff on Khaleesi Lady Gaga and why Sopranos' end works but Lost's doesn't". The A.V. Club Interview, www.avclub.com. March 22, 2013.

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• like our parents always told us not to like firefighters warn against we're playing games and making the rules up as we go we're matching warmth to warmth starting fires burning wishes into our skin we're hidden holding forbidden lights we're children whose fathers have never taught never touch but we're finding these new flames we smother at the sound of footsteps.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Children, Father, Fire

  Naomi Shihab Nye (2010). “Time You Let Me In: 25 Poets under 25”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• I think a lot of people feel that they are just not listened to, and that the politicians in Washington are just playing games with each other and forgetting about their constituents.

  Joe Lieberman

  Thinking, People, Forget

  "For Joe Lieberman, Solutions To Political Ills Don't Involve Labels". "All Things Considered" with Kelly Mcevers, www.npr.org. October 12, 2015.

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