Games Quotes - Page 26

Without faith in his own judgment no man can go very far in this game. That is about all I have learned - to study general conditions, to take a position and stick to it. I can wait without a twinge of impatience. I can see a setback without being shaken, knowing that it is only temporary.

Games have been called the lab for the development of moral attributes, but they will not, of themselves, accomplish this purpose. They must be properly conducted by competent individuals.

You sit or stand in the subway, and you look around - I do, because I don't have a phone so I'm not playing a game - and you see people.

I would say the referees have the toughest game to call. I would say that there's a lot of officiating done by announcers, local announcers. Sometimes you should listen to a game from both feeds, and you'd think you were listening to completely different games.

Killing is fundamentally in our nature because over the eons of human evolution murder was so surprisingly beneficial in the intense game of reproductive competition.

Most ball games are lost, not won.

The fools standpoint is that all social institutions are games. He sees the whole world as game playing. That's why, when people take their games seriously and take on stern and pious expressions, the fool gets the giggles because he knows that it is all a game.

War is the only game in which both sides lose.

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

For me, each game is a new challenge, which has to be dealt with rationally and systematically. At that time, every other thought fades into oblivion.

It's about the process. It's about getting better. 'Let's execute on this play, let's execute on this drive.' You do those things, and over the course of the season you'll get better as a team and you'll get to a point where hopefully you're playing at a high level to win the games that really become at another level.

A Chess game is divided into three stages: the first, when you hope you have the advantage, the second when you believe you have an advantage, and the third... when you know you're going to lose!

The time your game is most vulnerable is when you're ahead; never let up.

The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them.

This is a basic problem, to feed 6.6 billion people. Without fertilizer, forget it. The game is over.

Why do Canadians like to do it doggie style? So they can both keep watching the hockey game

So long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.

I claim that nothing else is so effective in encouraging the growth of chess strength as such independent analysis, both of the games of the great players and your own.

Any time you think you have the game conquered, the game will turn around and punch you right in the nose.

I'm more interested in the games than the people.

In life, the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what game you're playing

Philosophy must never be divorced from action. Unless it is put into practice, philosophy is nothing more than an intellectual game.

Cricket is a most precarious profession; it is called a team game but, in fact, no one is so lonely as a batsman facing a bowler supported by ten fieldsmen and observed by two umpires to ensure that his error does not go unpunished.

It took me five years to learn to play the game intelligently enough to make big money when I was right.

Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on youself. Enjoy the ever present game of knowing.