Games Quotes - Page 7

Climbing is a great game-great not in spite of the demands it makes, but because of them. Great because it will not let us give half of ourselves-it demands all of us. It demands our best.

When the game is over I just want to look at myself in the mirror, win or lose, and know I gave it everything I had.

The obvious objective of video games is to entertain people by surprising them with new experiences.

My work is a game, a very serious game.

My favourite pub game is, of course, snooker. Any game whose rules basically amount to finding a table covered in mess and slowly and methodically putting it all away out of sight is one with which I can empathise emphatically.

Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled.

Learning is to discover that something is possible. We are using most of our energies for self-destructiv e games, self-preventing games. We prevent ourselves from growing the very moment something unpleasant, something painful comes up. At that moment we become phobic, we run away, we desensitize ourselves. Neurotic suffering is suffering in imagination, suffering in fantasy.

Most bad," the host concluded. "If you ask me, something sinister lurks in men who avoid wine, games, the company of lovely women, and dinnertime conversation. Such people are either gravely ill or secretly detest everyone around them.

It always amazes me that spectators want to coach, coaches want to officiate, and officials just want to watch the game

The Xbox 360 is the first console that I've ever worked with that actually has development tools that are better for games than what we've had on PC.

Being in attack mode is something I try to bring into every single game, and that's what's making me be so successful.

My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements.

I just want to keep working hard, stay humble, and keep trying to win games.

The economic game is not supposed to be rigged like some shady ring toss on a carnival midway.

Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.

I cannot face my God much longer knowing that his black creatures are held separate and distinct from his white creatures in the game that has given me all that I can call my own.

Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game.

NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.

The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly, and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.

If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.

I believe the game is designed to reward the ones who hit the hardest - If you can't take it, you shouldn't play!

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.

From this point of view, science - the real game in town - is rhetoric, a series of efforts to persuade relevant social actors that one's manufactured knowledge is a route to a desired form of very objective power.

The rewards of golf, and of life too I expect, are worth very little if you don't play the game by the etiquette as well as by the rules.