Rules Of The Game Quotes - Page 2

• The existence of a free market does not of course eliminate the need for government. On the contrary, government is essential both as a forum for determining the "rule of the game" and as an umpire to interpret and enforce the rules decided on.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, Games, Umpires

  "Capitalism and Freedom". Book by Milton Friedman, 1962.

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• The first day of the brand new calendar year is an empowered time to psychologically unwind to mentally find own life charged emotionally with a refined energy & enthusiasm to create a beautiful growth paradigm within the physically defined laws of nature and the rules of the game called life.

  Anuj

  Beautiful, Years, Law

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• How much freedom I have depends on the number and nature of my options. And that, in turn, depends both on the rules of the game and on the assetts of the players: it is a very important and widely neglected truth that it does not depend on the rules of the game alone.

  Gerald Cohen

  Player, Games, Numbers

  Gerald Allan Cohen (1995). “Self-Ownership, Freedom, and Equality”, p.54, Cambridge University Press

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• American democracy is a chess-game in which pawns imagine themselves to be free individuals with wills of their own: that delusion is one of the rules of the game, without which the game could not continue. I doubt anyone, no matter how sharp and sharp-tongued, could succeed in getting across to high school students how vital an acute mind is for just keeping a grip on one's life and earnings in our mendacious politics and economics. No wonder our school system is devoutly dedicated to demoralizing and blunting such minds.

  Kenny Smith

  Education, School, Games

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• How then shall mathematical concepts be judged? They shall not be judged. Mathematics is the supreme arbiter. From its decisions there is no appeal. We cannot change the rules of the game, we cannot ascertain whether the game is fair. We can only study the player at his game; not, however, with the detached attitude of a bystander, for we are watching our own minds at play.

  David van Dantzig

  Education, Attitude, Math

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• Living through the 1929 Great Depression helped shape my social conscience. During this time, I realized the earth was still the same place, manufacturing plants were still intact, and resources were still there, but people didn’t have money to buy the products. I felt the rules of the game we play by were outmoded and damaging. This began a life-long quest resulting in the conclusions and designs presented in The Venus Project.

  Jacque Fresco

  Games, Play, Long

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• The rules of the game must be constantly updated to keep up with the expanding technology. Otherwise we overkill the classic climbs and delude ourselves into thinking we are better climbers than the pioneers.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Technology, Thinking, Climbing

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• What really matters in a workplace, what helps an employer if you've got a unionised workforce is if your shop stewards know the rules of the game, if your safety reps are taught to be able to examine situations to make sure the workplace is more safety. Better informed delegates, better workplace safety saves companies money. Unions are very good at safety. We are good at teaching delegates how to resolve disputes.

  Bill Shorten

  Teaching, Games, Safety

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• The churches must realize that when they take a position on a political event that they must accept the rules of the game.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Games, Political, Church

  Source: presbyterianrecord.ca

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• The theory of economic shock therapy relies in part on the roleof expectations on feeding an inflationary process. Reining in inflation requires not only changing monetary policy but also changing the behavior of consumers, employers and workers. The role of a sudden, jarring policy shift is that it quickly alters expectations, signaling to the public that the rules of the game have changed dramatically - prices will not keep rising, nor will wages.

  Naomi Klein

  Games, Expectations, Roles

  "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism". Book by Naomi Klein, 2007.

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• We have a lot of sort of received historical ways of viewing portraiture. And I suppose in some way I'm sort of questioning that by toying with the rules of the game.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Games, Historical, Portraiture

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• The human soul is not framed for continued proximity, and the result of this enforced neighbourhood is often an appalling loneliness for which the rules of the game forbid assuagement.

  Iris Murdoch

  Loneliness, Games, Soul

  Iris Murdoch (2003). “The Black Prince”, p.89, Penguin

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• The more you become a part of society, the less and less you are an individual, the less and less you are spontaneous - because the very membership in the society will not allow you to be spontaneous. You will have to follow the rules of the game. If you enter a society, you accept to follow those rules that the society is playing, or has decided to play.

  Rajneesh

  Games, Play, Society

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• I think that the best of my generation...have reversed the customary rules of the game and have grown more radical as they have gotten older - a disconcerting but healthy sign. To be sure, there are many youngish old fogies around and even the most illustrious of these, William Buckley, is blessed by a puzzling, recondite but undeniable charm, almost as if beneath that patrician exterior an egalitarian was signaling to get out.

  William Styron

  Blessed, Thinking, Games

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• In business, standards establish the rules of the game, creating path dependencies as investments are made and corresponding designs are set in stone and plastic. Inferior standards can prevail due to smart marketing or industry collusion.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Smart, Creating, Games

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• Religion has the same relation to man's heavenly condition that mathematics has to his earthly one: both the one and the other are merely the rules of the game. Belief in God and belief in numbers: local truth and truth of location.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Men, Numbers, Games

  Vladimir Nabokov, Michael Scammell (1963). “The gift”

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• Unlike multiculturalism, cultural pluralism doesn't just mean diversity but also togetherness - primarily the understanding of the rules of the game - the European values structure.

  Bassam Tibi

  Mean, Games, Diversity

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I can never do better than 'Fawlty Towers,' whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules of the game.

  John Cleese

  Games, Towers, Want

  "John Cleese — minister of comedic talk". www.today.com. June 12, 2006.

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• 'Grand Illusion' and 'Rules of the Game' are routinely included on lists of the greatest films, and deserve to be.

  Roger Ebert

  Games, Lists, Film

  Roger Ebert (2016). “The Great Movies IV”, p.78, University of Chicago Press

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• The great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not strangle the voice of creativity, that the rules of the game do not come to overshadow its purpose, that the grand orchestration of society leaves ample room for the man who marches to the music of another drummer.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Creativity, Men, Games

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• All lovers unconsciously establish their own rules of the game, which from the outset admit of no transgression.

  Milan Kundera

  Games, Lovers, Transgression

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• I had everything working my way, strong as a bull. And still I ignored the rules of the game of life.

  Lawrence Taylor

  Sports, Strong, Games

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• In really hard times the rules of the game are altered. The inchoate mass begins to stir. It becomes potent, and when it strikes, it strikes with incredible emphasis. Those are the rare occasions when a national will emerges from the scattered, specialized, or indifferent blocs of voters who ordinarily elect the politicians. Those are for good or evil the great occasions in a nation's history.

  Walter Lippmann

  Hard Times, Games, Evil

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.122, Harvard University Press

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• You have to have a government to provide you with legal order, with stability, enforcement of property rights, enforcement of contracts, definition of rules and regulations - the rules of the game, so to speak - and to provide certain shared goods and services, public services. Several people have tried to estimate this and they come out with figures like government spending at 15% of GDP. In the modern world it has gone to 40% or above. So we are way beyond the optimal, and that is easier to say than what the optimum is.

  James M. Buchanan

  Gdp, Rights, Government

  Source: www.aims.ca

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• We have over a hundred political detainees, men against whom we are unable to prove anything in a court of law. Nearly 50 of them are men who gave us a great deal of anxiety during the years of Confrontation because they were Malay extremists. Your life and this dinner would not be what it is if my colleagues and I had decided to play it according to the rules of the game.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Men, Games, Play

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