Quotes About Games And Learning

#1. I've been with the Yankees 17 years, watching games and learning. You can see a lot by observing.

Yogi Berra

#2. That's what games are, in the end. Teachers. Fun is just another word for learning.

Raph Koster

#3. The game is to keep learning, and I don't think people are going to keep learning who don't like the learning process.

Charlie Munger

#4. I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowled

Bruce Lee

#5. The main thing that develops positional judgement, that perfects it and makes it many-sided, is detailed analytical work, sensible tournament practice, a self-critical attitude to your games and a rooting out of all the defects in your play.

Alexander Kotov

#6. My rookie year was huge for me as far as the learning curve, especially those last three games.

Tim Tebow

#7. I've lied all my life. I'm just now learning how to tell the truth, and I'm not going to start playing games again, especially not with you.

Collette West

#8. Some parents let their young kids win at games, but mine never did.
I don't think it was because they were particularly competitive, they just wanted to teach me a valuable lesson.
Life is mostly just learning how to lose.

Brian K. Vaughan

#9. The great thing about Coulson is that he's a little bit like a party game, where the next person who gets ahold of him gets to write another sentence. I'm constantly learning more and more about the guy.

Clark Gregg

#10. If you play the game and you think about coaching, you should know it's about listening to people and learning.

Warren Gatland

#11. By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

Nate Silver

#12. For pleasure you can read the games collections of Andersson and Chigorin, but for benefit you should study Tarrasch, Keres and Bronstein.

Mikhail Tal

#13. Real teenage boys aren't like characters in the books you read. They smell funny and are obsessed with video games and say dumb things. They're still learning, just like you.

Stacey Jay

#14. The worst thing a kid can say about homework is that it is too hard. The worst thing a kid can say about a game is it's too easy.

Henry Jenkins

#15. The name of the game is continuing to learn. Even if you're very well trained and have some natural aptitude, you still need to keep learning.

Charlie Munger

#16. Besides my strokes improving, I've gotten a lot more comfortable with the game. The travel's not so tough any more, I'm learning my way around the circuit. I'm learning to cope and I'm having fun. That's the key
the tennis is fun and I'm really enjoying it.

Mardy Fish

#17. The game of life is the game of everlasting learning. At least it is if you want to win.

Charlie Munger

#18. Scientists have shown that pigs are capable of playing simple video games, learning from each other, and even learning names.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

#19. I love working with younger actors because they always come into the game full of energy and ideas that challenge me and keep me learning and stimulated.

Nicolas Cage

#20. Fun from games arises out of mastery. It arises out of comprehension. It is the act of solving puzzles that makes games fun. In other words, with games, learning is the drug.

Raph Koster

#21. We're still getting better as a team. We're still learning how to play basketball as a team and how to win tough games.

Carmelo Anthony

#22. Nobody likes to fail but failure is an essential part of life and of learning. If your uniform isn't dirty, you haven't been in the game.

Ben Bernanke

#23. I think you need to understand games to write them. There's a learning curve, just like there's a learning curve in anything. It's not precisely the same as film or television, but you're using the same muscles.

Bruce Feirstein

#24. When a medium like games or comic books whips up such a rapture of enthusiasm, naturally we look for lessons we should be learning.

Dave Morris

#25. I really enjoy playing with someone else and whether it's chess or tennis or games, I love card games. I love that, but I think there's something so important to gain from winning and losing and learning how to lose and how you can be better from that.

Hilary Swank

#26. It's the journey that matters. Learning is more important than the test. Practice well, and the games will take care of themselves.

Tony Dungy

#27. Don't be afraid of losing, be afraid of playing a game and not learning something.

Dan Heisman

#28. We showed why road games have been tough for us throughout this year. That's where we've got to get better. It's a learning experience.

Chris Paul

#29. The point, as I emphasize in the book, is not for players to become professionals, but rather to have innovative and creative ways of thinking about real problems as part of their intellectual toolkit.

David Williamson Shaffer

#30. Simply put: Epistemic games recreate in game form the things that people do in the real world to learn to think in innovative and creative ways about problems that matter.

David Williamson Shaffer

#31. I get on well with people and I have really good relationships with the other coaches around me. I don't know everything about the games and I'm still learning all the time, so it's important to have an open mind.

Warren Gatland

#32. Throwing people out of a game is like learning to ride a bicycle
once you get the hang of it, it can be a lot of fun.

Ron Luciano

#33. Being a part of the finesse and physicality of box lacrosse has been a great experience for me. I feel that I have learned and improved as an overall lacrosse player. Learning to adapt in tight space while reading defenders and offensive players has been the biggest improvement in my game.

Paul Rabil

#34. The Olympics is about bringing the world together and learning how to go through struggles. That's what inspired me before my career and that's been my inspiration ever since I was striving towards the 2008 Games.

David Boudia

#35. I could always throw the ball pretty well and I worked pretty hard at learning how to play the game. But I didn't consider it work as a kid, since I just loved playing baseball.

Jim Abbott

#36. If great lecture is theatre, the future of learning is games.

Anant Agarwal

#37. I started out as a teenager I was a snooker player, or pool player. Through that I met some other teenagers that were gamblers, if you will, who started basement games. I was just sort of learning on the go, losing my $10.

Daniel Negreanu

#38. The art of politics is learning to walk with your back to the wall, your elbows high, and a smile on your face. It's a survival game played under the glare of lights.

Jean Chretien

#39. Hard fun is, of course, the idea that we take pleasure in accomplishing something difficult: the joy in meeting and mastering a challenge. As a result, when someone is doing something that is hard fun, moment by moment it looks more like "work" than "fun," but the net effect is pleasurable overall.

David Williamson Shaffer

#40. The primary danger of the television screen lies not so much in the behavior it produces as the behavior it prevents-the talks, the games, the family activities and the arguments through which much of the child's learning takes place and his character is formed.

Urie Bronfenbrenner

#41. That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way is winning.

Richard Bach

#42. The emphasis on winning is preventing kids from learning how to pass, which is the skill they ultimately need at the highest levels. The proposed solution is for top youth players to play fewer games.

Po Bronson

#43. If the weather is too cold or rainy, I take shelter in the Regence Cafe, where I entertain myself by watching chess being played. Paris is the world center, and this cafe is the Paris centre for the finest skill at this game.

Denis Diderot

#44. Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes it takes.

Hayley Mills

#45. Having fun while learning feels like playing a game.

N.N. Porchezhiyan