Top 100 Game Rules Quotes
#1. There are rules to everything, even if nobody made them up, even if nobody calls it a game. And if you want things to work out well, it's best to know the rules and only break them if you're playing a different game and following those rules.
Orson Scott Card
#2. Building companies rules of the game have all changed today. It used to cost millions of dollars to do anything substantial. You'd get VC backing & then you'd hire the team to build it. Now it's deploy or die.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#3. Children's games constitute the most admirable social institutions. The game of marbles, for instance, as played by boys, contains an extremely complex system of rules - that is to say, a code of laws, a jurisprudence of its own.
Jean Piaget
#4. We were playing a game against an unknown and unforgiving opponent. The stakes were terrible - play well or die - but we didn't even know the ground rules.
Nando Parrado
#5. But play the game of life according to the rules. You might as well, because you can't cheat life in the end.
L.M. Montgomery
#6. Kids are kids and not little adults. They're watching and listening to you all the time. They're figuring out the game plan but still don't know all the rules. Talk straight to them and they'll respect you for it.
Carew Papritz
#7. There were always bullies, but the adults were still in charge. Now? Now the bullies rule. Different game, brother, a whole different game. We play by the bully rules now.
Michael Grant
#8. Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men. The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety.
Mary Wesley
#9. Learn the rules and learn the game, before you start breaking the rules and changing the game.
Your education, experience and understanding of what was and what is, will give you the best foundation to change what will be.
Loren Weisman
#10. Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray.
Joe Garagiola
#11. My father wasn't a hard guy. He was a well-liked guy. He had a lot of compassion about things in life. There were rules, but there was also flexibility within those rules. He didn't push me when it came to golf: he just taught me the right way to play the game.
Tom Watson
#12. If you create the game, then you create the rules.
India.Arie
#13. There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit in the book of rules.
Alistair Cooke
#14. In a Game Community, the rules and officials decide if the players are good enough to play. If not, they change players. In a Play Community, the players decide if the game is fun enough to play. If not, they change rules.
Bernie De Koven
#15. Acting is playing pretend, playing a children's game at an adult level, but with children's rules. It's fun to play bad guys. I've never been in a fight in my life, so it's fun to play something that's different.
Ray Liotta
#16. Tengo had a gift for such work. He was a born technician, possessing both the intense concentration of a bird sailing through the air in search of prey and the patience of a donkey hauling water, playing always by the rules of the game.
Haruki Murakami
#17. I wrote these words for everyone who struggles in their youth.
Who won't accept deception instead of what is truth.
It seems we lose the game, before we even start to play.
Who made these rules? We're so confused. Easily led astray.
Lauryn Hill
#18. No one is above the game or the rules that govern it. Respect for the game and the people who participate in it will not be compromised.
Roger Goodell
#19. I stand for the square deal. I mean not merely that I stand for fair play under the present rules of the game, but that I stand for having those rules changed so as to work for a more substantial equality of opportunity and of reward for equally good service.
Theodore Roosevelt
#20. Destiny, a game in which we're all players but few of us know the rules.
- Lord Terez Reiver
Shana Rae
#22. You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
Unknown
#23. I realized then that it was a game we were playing; from the very beginning. But we weren't playing the same game and when it came down to it, he wasn't playing by the rules.
Jessica Marie Gilliland
#24. Every game has rules. Life's a game that has its respective rules; obey the rules, win the game!
Israelmore Ayivor
#25. Life is just like a game,
First you have to learn rules of the game,
And then play it better then any one else.
Albert Einstein
#26. 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
#27. That's life. Life is the ultimate game, and its rules were made to be broken
Nenia Campbell
#28. Life is not about how others see it; it is about how you feel it, how you approach it and how you play it, Be bold,be different and be you. Forget how people expect you to play it out; it is your game, your rules.
Kieran Jamie Lee
#29. I'm persuaded that sports is the one place where the rules are pretty well set out, where fans are equal. And if you got game or you're a good official, you make it here, whether you're white or you're black.
David Stern
#30. I do not pray ... I do not expect God to single me out and grant me advantages over my fellow men ... Prayer seems to me a cry of weakness, and an attempt to avoid, by trickery, the rules of the game as laid down. I do not choose to admit weakness. I accept the challenge of responsibility.
Zora Neale Hurston
#31. I didn't make the rules, but fuck if I don't play the hell out of the game.
A.D. Aliwat
#32. I don't have to fight or run," [Locke] cackled. "I changed the rules of the game. I just have to keep you here ... asshole.
Here ... until ... Jean gets back.
Scott Lynch
#33. Playing the game is far more satisfying than reading the rules.
Bernard Haisch
#34. The consumer game is tougher than pro football and more conniving than chess. One side [industry] invents the rules and the other side [consumers] is left to guess what they are.
Betty Furness
#35. We used to look at each other and say, 'We play the same game with the same rules, the same bat, the same ball, the same field. What the hell does color have to do with it? You don't play with color. You play with talent.'
Monte Irvin
#36. What American people and what the markets want is a fair and level playing-field, where the rules are clearly elucidated, where the referees are competent, and where we know that the game is not rigged.
James Chanos
#37. They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me. I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game
R.D. Laing
#38. The question wasn't when things had changed. It was this: When had he decided to simply accept society's rules, to play the game precisely as it had been laid out by those who already had power?
Courtney Milan
#39. You try to stay within the rules for the sake of the game, but you can always turn up the intensity.
Lawrence Taylor
#40. Kaylin hated politics. Hated them. She hated the stupid decisions, the game playing, the grandstanding. She hated political decisions made by people who never had to do any of the law's actual work. She hated the pervasive sense of superiority and smugness that underlay all of the rules.
Michelle Sagara
#42. Just as Josef K, the protagonist of Kafka's 'The Trial,' awoke one day to discover that he had become part of some unfathomable legal carnival, we, too are frequently waking to discover that the rules of the digital game have once again profoundly changed.
Evgeny Morozov
#43. I attribute my success to my mental approach to the game. I have always been a serious student of umpiring. I enjoy studying rules, situations, and positioning.
Jim Evans
#44. I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules.
Leo Durocher
#45. If the opponent offers keen play I don't object; but in such cases I get less satisfaction, even if I win, than from a game conducted according to all the rules of strategy with its ruthless logic.
Anatoly Karpov
#46. Remember that veganism is a compassionate lifestyle not a punitive religion. Enjoy it! And if the going gets rough, it's better to relax the rules occasionally than to give up the game entirely.
Karen Dawn
#47. Most rules that you think are written in stone are just societal. You can change the game and really reach for the stars and make the world a better place.
Sebastian Thrun
#48. Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted.
Michael Behe
#49. Contradictions do not perplex the logician. They arise because there are more rules to an open game than can be known.
Donald Kingsbury
#51. It [would have] been very difficult. As I said, the rules ... but if the rules were put in place back when Michael Jordan was in his prime - no hand-checking, the game was more geared toward offense, wanting to promote scoring in the game - he could have probably got close. He did score 69.
Scottie Pippen
#52. 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
#53. It's the mathematical potential for a single game to last forever, in a suspended world where no clock rules the day, that aligns baseball as much with the dead as the living.
Bill Vaughn
#54. Never allow your game to be played by someone else's rules. The game you create is the reality you wish to live and that will be the love you do or do not endure.
A.H. Carlisle III
#55. I've realized that a lot of life is not what you say,see,it's what you don't say.People have to make up their own minds then.It's like a game, and only we know the rules.
Martina Cole
#56. 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.
Jon Richardson
#57. There is one and only one responsibility of business: to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game.
Milton Friedman
#58. He saw the rules of life clearly for the first time and they were simple: it was a game where Death was the only winner.
Sharon Sant
#59. A game is a system in which players engage in an artificial conflict, defined by rules, that results in a quantifiable outcome.
Katie Salen
#60. To be sure of winning, invent your own game, and never tell any other player the rules.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#61. By the time you learn the rules of life, you're too old to play the game.
Grenville Kleiser
#62. The rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature.
Thomas Huxley
#63. You have to lead, in the case of a game show, a contestant through the architecture of the show. So there's a lot of rules there, literal and implied, that you have to navigate.
Michael Ian Black
#64. So I wonder this, as life billows smoke inside my head This little game where nothing is sure Why would you play by the rules? Who did? You did. You ...
Dave Matthews
#65. The suicide does not play the game, does not observe the rules. He leaves the party too soon, and leaves the other guests painfully uncomfortable.
Joyce Carol Oates
#66. Playing (Serena) it always felt like playing a steamroller. No subtlety, no finesse, just raw, loud power. To respect this style of play was always a bit tough for me, but of course I had to, because the rules of tennis dont state that having a beautiful game is required to become No. 1.
Martina Hingis
#67. We may be young, but we're not powerless. We play by their rules long enough, and it becomes our game.
Orson Scott Card
#69. Theatre is a game of hide-and-seek. For both the hiders and the seekers, the thrill is in the discovery. When the rules of the game are too vague or too complicated, however, the audience can lose its urge to play; the prize no longer seems quite worth the hunt.
John Lahr
#70. Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.
Jack Nicklaus
#71. The goal of life is not to win. It is to play the game with love. The rules of the game are: have a strong desire to win, believe that you are worthy of winning, have faith that you will win, and, as long as you are alive, never believe that the game is over.
Iyanla Vanzant
#72. Men and women play the same game but with different rules.
Habeeb Akande
#73. I believe that both art and the human striving for cognitive comprehension are manifest forms of the grand game in which nothing more is stipulated than the game's rules; both art and actively solicited perceptions are but special cases of the recurring creative act to which we owe our existence.
Konrad Lorenz
#74. Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.
Tom Peters
#75. All lovers unconsciously establish their own rules of the game, which from the outset admit of no transgression.
Milan Kundera
#76. In other words, if you can't win the game, change the rules.
Eric Schmidt
#77. Economy is not baseball, where the game is always played by the same rules.
Nate Silver
#78. Before you break all the rules, learn the game. Too many startups and entrepreneurs want to sprint before they learn to crawl.
Mark Anthony Peterson
#79. She'n'her bros at the school'ry'd made a new game, Zachry'n'Meronym on Mauna Kia, but Abbess say-soed 'em not to 'cos times are pretendin' can bend bein'. A whoah game it was, said Catkin, but I din't want to know its rules nor endin'.david
David Mitchell
#80. Golfers should not fail to realize that it is a game of great traditions, of high ideals of sportsmanship, one in which a strict adherence to the rules is essential.
Francis Ouimet
#81. I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.
Edmund White
#82. We've got to abide by the rules. We have to protect it. The game of golf at a professional level is so clean. We are our own judge, jury and executioner. If we don't do what we think is right, the game might get away from us.
Greg Norman
#83. Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game
Will Durant
#84. 'Grand Illusion' and 'Rules of the Game' are routinely included on lists of the greatest films, and deserve to be.
Roger Ebert
#85. Gamers both demand and deserve novelty. They need something new. As a game developer, one of my rules is there will be at least one thing in every game that I worked on that no one on the planet has seen before.
Warren Spector
#86. These things must be done by the rules," said Czernberg. "Yeah," said Shadow. "But nobody tells me what they are. You keep talking about the goddamn rules, I don't even know what game you people are playing.
Neil Gaiman
#87. I'm not permitted to explain the rules of the game. Nor to acknowledge whether or not we're playing one.
Robyn Schneider
#88. I can't compete and when I do, the rules of engagement change in the middle of the game. I'll let the powers that be vanquish themselves and return in three to five years to sift through the remains.
Ayn Rand
#89. I love sports. I was an athlete in high school, and my school was so small we didn't have a football team, so it's the one sport I didn't bother to learn the rules to because I never went to game.
Katie Aselton
#90. Maybe I should know the rules," he says softly.
"Pfft. I'm not a game." I reach out to poke his shoulder, and unexpectedly he catches my finger.
"Sometimes, I'm not so sure.
Brooklyn Skye
#91. He no playa the game, he no maka the rules.
Earl Butz
#92. Cricket is a game full or forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune and its rules are so ill-defined that their interpretation is partly an ethical business.
George Orwell
#93. Everyone has his reasons." Octave (Jean Renoir) in "The Rules of the Game.
Jean Renoir
#94. I don't think we have any choice. I think we have an obligation to change the rules, to raise the bar, to play a different game, and to play it better than anyone has any right to believe is possible.
Seth Godin
#95. ...So to be fast to don't be long and to try to be short... If you want to play the best game, create it - make the rules, make what they will do... That's how I do it. I make people to play my games and then often loooose!
Deyth Banger
#96. A curse on this game. How can you stick at a game when the rules keep on changing? I shall call myself Alice and play croquet with the flamingos. In Wonderland everyone cheats and love is Wonderland, isn't it?
Jeanette Winterson
#97. Enlightenment is the Goal - Love is the Game - Taking steps are the rules!
Alan Rufus
#98. Thunder rolled ... It is said that the gods play games with the lives of men. But what games, and why, and the identities of the actual pawns, and what the game is, and what the rules are - who knows? Best not to speculate. Thunder rolled ... It rolled a six.
Terry Pratchett
#99. To me, a lawyer is basically the person that knows the rules of the country. We're all throwing the dice, playing the game, moving our pieces around the board, but if there is a problem the lawyer is the only person who has read the inside of the top of the box.
Jerry Seinfeld
#100. I never learned the rules in the first place. To change the game is at the heart of what Virgin stands for, so the company culture has always been: "Don't sweat it: rules were meant to be broken."
Richard Branson
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