Playing Games Quotes - Page 6

• As soon as the mind and mind identification return; you're no longer yourself but a mental image of yourself, and you start playing games and roles again to get your ego needs met.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Ego, Mind, Needs

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• This is a great opportunity for Don, and I wish him success. I am incredibly proud of the work and vision culminating in Xbox One. I'm particularly excited about how Xbox pushes forward our devices and services transformation by bringing together the best of Microsoft.

  Steve Ballmer

  Xbox, Opportunity, Vision

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• Congress should fund research on the effects that violent video games have on young minds... We don't benefit from ignorance. We don't benefit from not knowing the science.

  Barack Obama

  Ignorance, Knowing, Mind

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• Keep playing games. Make time to play games with your friends and family, because it's surprisingly heartbreaking to wipe a thin layer of dust off a game you love, before you put it back on the shelf because the real world is calling you.

  Wil Wheaton

  Real, Love Is, Dust

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• Another piece of clarification around playing games at a friend's house - should you choose to play your game at your friend's house, there is no fee to play that game while you are signed in to your profile.

  Larry Hryb

  Xbox, House, Pieces

  "Xbox One and Used Games". majornelson.com. May 21, 2013.

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• Not everyone supported gaming, but we had a general meeting and a vote on whether to pursue a casino or not and the tribe voted yes, and as a tribal representative to the state legislature, I had to represent that decision.

  Donna M. Loring

  Decision, Casinos, Tribes

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• The Penobscot took an initial poll of people in the state to determine if there was support for opening a casino, and the poll came back very favorable. As we moved forward, a commercial was aired that said if the tribe opened a casino the law would allow kids to gamble and had an image of a kid pulling a slot machine. Here it was our idea and we got massacred, and someone else ended up with what we wanted; it's sort of like history repeating itself.

  Donna M. Loring

  Kids, Law, Ideas

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• It's really hard. And it's harder today because of the salary cap. It starts in September at training camp - getting every guy on the same page, being as mentally and physically as focused as you can be. Then in April and May, you basically spend eight weeks practising, watching video and playing games. That's your life.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Eight, Guy, Training

  "Wayne Gretzky on the love of his life". Interview with Jonathon Gatehouse, www.macleans.ca. October 6, 2016.

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• As most people when I entered the work world, suddenly people are playing games, being manipulative, being a little bit nasty, you get tricked or you're kind of naive and you do something and people come steal your idea.

  Robert Greene

  Games, Ideas, People

  Source: dilanka.cc

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• Graphic novels might really speak to one child who's struggling with the other kinds of reading and might help them discover that storytelling is joyful and personal and illuminating. They might find your way in auditorily by listening to audio books in the car instead of playing Game Boys or watching DVDs.

  Emma Walton Hamilton

  Children, Struggle, Book

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Fun, Inspirational Life, Garden

  "All Things Considered". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1908.

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• Champions keep playing until they get it right.

  Billie Jean King

  Inspirational, Sports, Running

  Twitter post from Jan 26, 2015

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• It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self.

  Donald Woods Winnicott

  Children, Self, Personality

  Donald Woods Winnicott (2005). “Playing and Reality”, p.73, Psychology Press

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• Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

  Heraclitus

  Inspirational, Happiness, Children

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• No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.

  W. H. Auden

  Class, Innocence, Action

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• It's a great day for a ball game; let's play two!

  Ernie Banks

  Baseball, Two, Coaching

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

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• Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes.

  Brian Clough

  Soccer, Winning, Player

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

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• You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Teaching, Aging, Games

  Nikki Giovanni (1993). “Ego-Tripping and Other Poems for Young People”, p.49, Chicago Review Press

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• It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Children, Serious, Should

  Essais bk. 1, ch. 23 (1580)

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• We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Adults, Want

  "David Plouffe on New Obama Deficit Plan; Rep. Eric Cantor on Budget Battle". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. April 10, 2011.

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• I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun and the love of play has never left me.

  Kevin Spacey

  Fun, Character, Mean

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