Top 100 Quotes About Game Playing
#1. We are game-playing, fun-having creatures, we are the otters of the universe.
Richard Bach
#2. 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.
Alan Watts
#3. Boys frustrate me. I hate all their indirect messages, I hate game playing. Do you like me or don't you? Just tell me so I can get over you.
Kirsten Dunst
#4. The only groups I willingly joined were spontaneous, short-lived, and usually game-playing.
Meredith Marple
#5. I can remember earning £5,000 a game playing for Hibs at the end of the Seventies. They let me commute from London, train on the Friday and play on Saturday. That lasted until my friends at the Inland Revenue decided to take two-thirds. That wasn't very entertaining for me.
George Best
#6. As Apple continues to release new styles of netbooks, laptops, and even desktops with untold movie-watching and game-playing capabilities, I wouldn't be surprised to see the iPhone operating system running on them - and the Macintosh eventually becoming a thing of the past.
Douglas Rushkoff
#7. I am impressed and distressed at how passive hierarchical organizations make people. There's often a lot of overt activity, but it's not going anywhere, it's game-playing. It's play-acting at work.
Judith M Bardwick
#8. Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateurs drunks, the bores.
Charles Bukowski
#9. I think the thing I took most from game playing was just getting in the characters head. I took it really seriously. There's something about creating your character.
Drew Goddard
#10. I think that the only real way to tell if a boy like likes you is to be direct. None of this game-playing, that's juvenile. Instead, even though it might be scary, the thing to do is to just march up and ask one of your friends to ask someone else to ask one of his friends what he thinks about you.
Lisa Yee
#11. Game-playing is more fun when it's virtual because you're more successful ... in reality, only one person gets to be LeBron.
Larry Ellison
#12. When we were on the bus doing the Mr. Show Hooray for America Tour there was a lot of laughter and a lot of pot smoking and a lot of speed metal listening and video game playing. Of course that was all Brian Posehn.
David Cross
#13. Most of my stories, if not all of them, have some basis in real life. That's the kind of fiction I'm most interested in. I suppose that's one reason I don't have much respect for fiction that seems to be game playing.
Raymond Carver
#14. To me acting originally became an extension of game playing.
Hugo Weaving
#15. So, sweetheart, be careful with the game-playing or you may find yourself in trouble one day.
Annie Seaton
#16. Man is a game playing animal and a computer is another way to play games.
Scott Adams
#17. No more game playing. It's time we call this fight what it is: a war.
Katie McGarry
#18. The game-playing market today is pretty sizable.
John Romero
#19. 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
#20. You know, I'm just 6'9 and 260. And just so happen to be very good at playing the game of basketball.
LeBron James
#21. Whether we're stuffing our faces with Kogi tacos or playing a pickup game of football outside the stages, there's never a shortage of fun behind the scenes on 'Murder In The First.'
Ian Anthony Dale
#22. But it doesn't mean anything without someone beside him. It's not a game if he's the only one playing.
David Levithan
#23. There's nothing like a player playing the game of life with a coach rooting them on.
Nicole A. Walker
#24. WE'RE SORRY YOU WEREN'T HOME. WE'LL FIND YOU AND KILL YOU. HAVING FUN PLAYING THIS GAME?
Demian Schatt
#25. I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.
Gloria Steinem
#26. Life, is a chess game you win or loose, but just keep playing.
Auliq Ice
#27. I'm just kind of focused on playing the game and try to get better at certain things and wipe the slate clean every night.
Patrick Kane
#28. Who the hell let you animals into my office?
I'll have you know I was playing a VERY unimportant game of chess right now with a man that kept saying King me.
Matt Fraction
#29. When I was really low, when it was all I could do not to feel sorry for myself, I played that game too. I knew I could never win, but some days, the dark days, the allure of playing 'if only' was too strong to resist.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#30. When I was a kid, I really liked playing chess, which is pretty geeky; I just enjoyed it - thinking, exercising my mind. And I found computers to be like an eight-hour day chess game.
Michael Birch
#31. My job is to play chess, the game that I love. I achieve what I can in chess. That is what I focus on. Basically, I am always focused on playing the game, and this is important to me.
Viswanathan Anand
#32. Not just me but every professional footballer will tell you they miss playing the game, I miss the game especially as I retired early, not because I was a bad player but I retired solely for health reasons.
Fabrice Muamba
#33. When I was a little boy, I didn't know what the Hall of Fame was. I was just playing the game of baseball, and I wanted to be just like my dad.
Roberto Alomar
#34. I was playing the game where I was going to be a great TV or film writer some day and there was nothing else that I thought about, including other people.
Dan Harmon
#36. If you got the game, you got the game. That's why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman.
Shaquille O'Neal
#37. Success" means nothing more than playing a certain game well enough to receive whatever high accolades exist within that game.
Johnny B. Truant
#38. Greyface and his followers took the game of playing at life more seriously than they took life itself and were known even to destroy other living beings whose ways of life differed from their own.
Malaclypse The Younger
#39. I think you try to improve every season and every game and be prepared about certain defensemen you're playing against, certain ways to find open ice.
Patrick Kane
#40. By changing the way I experienced things, even just involving different details than in reality, I often felt I was betraying the past and playing an unfair game with the reader where he (of course) would ask himself "Did this really happen?"
Sasa Stanisic
#41. The world is moving ahead on its own without my being aware of it, as if we're playing a game in which everybody else can move only when I have my eyes closed.
Haruki Murakami
#42. It is really hard to make it convincing enough that you forget you are playing a video game.
Tim Page
#43. Can you appreciate music without playing it? Yes, you can. You can appreciate baseball without playing it. Many people attend a football game merely for the crowd, the excitement, the color.
Jascha Heifetz
#45. Don't be afraid of losing, be afraid of playing a game and not learning something.
Dan Heisman
#46. Men want to think women don't cheat, and women want men to think they don't cheat, and therefore the sexes have been playing a little psychological game with each other.
Helen Fisher
#47. No-one will ever have golf under his thumb. No round ever will be so good it could not have been better. Perhaps this is why golf is the greatest of games. You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
Bobby Jones
#48. And it's not like I've never jacked off. I'm fifteen years old. Of course I do it. Any guy who says he doesn't is lying. That would be like having the coolest video game ever and never playing it. No one's that stupid.
Michael Thomas Ford
#49. She'll never really let me go. She likes the game too much."
"Then stop playing it.
Gillian Flynn
#50. I like monsters in general - that's what I like to write about. Somebody was joking with me that my body was becoming a manual for a role-playing game because I'm covered in little monsters. That's true. I could easily have more monsters on my skin.
Maria Dahvana Headley
#51. Investing is a negative game emotionally. If you're playing for the emotional satisfaction, you're bound to lose, because what feels good is often the wrong thing to do. When all the criteria are in balance, do the thing you least want to do.
William Eckhardt
#52. You can win tournaments when you're mechanical, but golf is a game of emotion and adjustment. If you're not aware of what's happening to your mind and your body when you're playing, you'll never be able to be the very best you can be.
Jack Nicklaus
#53. There's such a cynicism about the phrase 'I laughed all the way to the bank.' It's as though money is what you're doing, rather than playing music. If you're playing a money game, why not get into banking?
Artie Shaw
#54. What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.
Sri Aurobindo
#55. What is the object of playing a gambit opening? ... To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of losing a game
Siegbert Tarrasch
#56. If you are hurt, whether in mind or body, don't nurse your bruises. Get up and light-heartedly, courageously, good temperedly get ready for the next encounter. This is the only way to take life - this is also 'playing' the game!
Emily Post
#57. Anyone who doesn't win their conference has no business playing in the national championship game.
Nick Saban
#58. God disguised as myriad things, and playing a game of tag has kissed you and said, "You're it. I mean you're really it. Now it does not matter what you believe or feel. For something wonderful, something major-league wonderful, is someday going to happen."
Hafez
#59. I never really gambled - certainly not playing poker. I'd casually bet on a football game or joined a pool.
Jason Gedrick
#60. Sugar, I am not playing a game. This is serious. I mean to woo you, so shut up and let me do it.
Lauren Dane
#61. DOLORES UMBRIDGE (to Scorpius): I don't know what game you're playing but you're upsetting the dementors and entirely ruining Voldemort Day.
Jack Thorne
#62. I'm still playing the game, having a great time.
Jason Giambi
#63. We are spirit in human form playing a game called earth life. Enjoy the experience!
S.A.M.
#64. 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
#65. Just because it is an All-Star Game doesn't mean that you are playing as efficiently as you should.
Oscar Robertson
#66. If it's the ultimate game, how come they're playing it again next year?
Duane Thomas
#67. Right now, I'm at the top of the world in my game so my focus isn't on when I'm going to end. My focus is on playing the best tennis that I can, and there is no end to that.
Venus Williams
#68. There is something special about baseball that goes far deeper than being a game. It is the father-son relationship that is built, the life lessons that are taught in the process of playing a game and the ability to overcome not succeeding all of the time and still considering yourself a success.
JohnA Passaro
#69. When I was a little girl in Savannah playing, there were never enough hours in the day or holes on the golf course. I just loved the game so much.
Hollis Stacy
#70. Soccer is a continuous game, rugby is a continuous game, but for the physical elements that are involved in playing a football game and the number of plays that you play, I don't know that it was ever intended to be a continuous game.
Nick Saban
#72. If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.
Thomas J. Watson
#73. The crucial ingredient for healing any relationship problem is the willingness to no longer see value in playing the game of blame and guilt.
Jerry Jampolsky
#74. I'm tired of the industry, tired of playing the whole game - the dressing up, the red carpet. I hate talking about myself.
Drea De Matteo
#75. I enjoy playing at the heart of it is just a kid who really loves playing the game of basketball.
Kobe Bryant
#76. Personally, I would say the 'master' of this whole thing is fate ... Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it's up to them to avoid being used.
Cliff Burton
#77. I have always had fun playing the game of baseball because I loved it so much.
Rickey Henderson
#78. The key to acting with integrity is to simply stop playing the game.
Stephen Covey
#79. Playing chess or Go or Tigris and Euphrates - a very good game, by the way - I can watch people as they choose their strategy and note how they respond to something I've done. Even
Jeffery Deaver
#80. In the end, only Leif believed that you were still alive. He thought you might be hiding somewhere, playing a game. As the rest of us grieved, Leif searched the jungle for you day after day."
"When did he finally stop?" I asked.
"Yesterday.
Maria V. Snyder
#81. You can't change your game based on where you're playing.
Troy Glaus
#82. I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
Jack Nicklaus
#83. Romance was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards. Like bridge you had to pretend you were playing for money or playing for some stakes.
Ernest Hemingway,
#84. When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a two o'clock game. Where can you make this kind of money playing sports? It was just a pleasure to go out and enjoy myself and get paid for it.
Willie Mays
#85. [Since] a player controls every character, it is that player's intelligence that dictates the character's goals and actions, not an arbitrary number on a character sheet. Thus, in a sense, the player _is_ the character's "intelligence score"!
Greg Stafford
#86. You know what I think? Very few people play because they love the game. Most of them play because they make good money. They keep playing because of the money. I could care less about it. If I don't love the game, no check is going to keep me playing.
Michael Jordan
#87. You cannot expect to be on intimate terms with everybody on your club, and there is no reason why you should be, so long as you are playing the game.
Joe Tinker
#88. This might sound masochistic or narcissistic, I don't know, but when I'm not playing the game, the validations I feel about life are always through the hardships. I relate more to sadness, in a lot of ways, when I'm not playing.
Abby Wambach
#89. 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
#90. I've been playing the game of life for over 52 years now and I don't feel one day younger or older than I am. Maybe its I just don't feel
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#91. ... As far I did it... I lost playing against my computer... and I won against my computer. So far that was well played game.
Deyth Banger
#92. I came ready to fight Genghis Khan and I walk in on a shut-in playing the biggest Dungeons and Dragons game in history.
Richard Kadrey
#93. We have a fictional "I" that we try to love and protect. We spend most of our life playing this futile game. "What will happen? How will it go? Will I get something out of it?" I, I, I - it's a mind game of illusion, and we are lost in it.
Charlotte Joko Beck
#94. How can we choose to continue
Playing this deadly
And impersonal game of loss?
Mattie J.T. Stepanek
#95. I spend twelve hours a week - a little over 10% of my waking hours - playing the game. Now I am trying to figure out how to get by on less sleep in order to fit in a few more hands.
Warren Buffett
#96. Just the usual formality before the chaos begins. Like playing the National Anthem before a Cubs game.
Berkeley Breathed
#97. Just because I had a good game doesn't change who I am,
my identity is in Christ and not in basketball, I love playing basketball and it's my job but at the same time I recognize that I'm a sinner and that's not gonna change regardless of how well I play on the court
Jeremy Lin
#98. When I'm playing a character like Jonathan in Ripley's Game I want to be in the moment when he's feeling pain; this very ordinary person who finds himself in extraordinary circumstances.
Dougray Scott
#99. The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies.
Carl Lewis
#100. Defeating depression is like playing the carnival game Whac-a-mole. You have to give it your all and be on target to beat that sucker down when it pops up again and again. If you pay attention, learn from your past efforts, and keep at it, you can win." -Mel. Edwards
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