Quotes About Playing The Long Game

#1. I'm not concerned with noise because I'm playing the long game.

Jay-Z

#2. Putin is playing the long game. He has a strategic plan in mind: the Eurasian Union, which would be in competition to Europe.

Hillary Clinton

#3. Ah, the meek. Playing the long game. Sneaky bastards.

Denise Mina

#4. If you review the commercial history, you will discover anyone who controls oriental trade will get hold of global wealth.

James J. Hill

#5. The key is that unless there is accountability, we will never get the right system. As long as there are no consequences if kids or adults don't perform, as long as the discussion is not about education and student outcomes, then we're playing a game as to who has the power.

Albert Shanker

#6. I spent a long time playing that game," she said. "Pretending there were other versions of this world, where other versions of me got to live, and be happy, even if I didn't, and you know what? It's lonely as hell. Maybe there are other versions, other lives, but this one's ours. It's all we've got.

Victoria Schwab

#7. Church is a place where you get to practice what it means to be human.

James Luther Adams

#8. I've been playing the game so long that my handicap is in Roman numerals.

Bob Hope

#9. I've no desire to be ill-dressed; but I hate the feeling that I daren't be ill-dressed if I want to.

John Braine

#10. We've been playing chess with this iPhone app. He hasn't made a move in so long our last game got forfeited. Ten days, or something like that."
"You two play chess on your phones?" Ty asked.
"Yeah." Zane shrugged.

Abigail Roux

#11. lose weight, eat backwards.

Benny Bellamacina

#12. We felt so small with the city lights stretching forever below us, and we yelled at the top of our lungs because we were just these small humans but we felt more longing than could ever fit inside us.

Nina LaCour

#13. I see myself playing as long as I am partially enjoying the game and partially successful and they are paying me. But honestly, two more years is about all I can take.

Brett Hull

#14. I've always loved Don Cheadle and Jeffery Wright and even Sam Jackson.

Andre Royo

#15. My favorite experiences have all been finding myself at one point in a timeline and going in both directions, just discovering at my own pace. If I could admit to be playing some kind of long game, and strategizing this, I would.

Blake Mills

#16. My history of lending money from banks is that they want to know the ins and outs of the backside of a duck.

Alan Sugar

#17. We were defined by what we did. What we had to do.
I think this is why guys like football, and why they join the army, because as long as you are playing the game or following orders you do not have to figure out who you really are.

Pete Hautman

#18. I find that writing unit tests actually increases my programming speed

Martin Fowler

#19. We do not know what the rules of the game are; all we are allowed to do is to watch the playing. Of course, if we watch long enough, we may eventually catch on to a few of the rules. The rules of the game are what we mean by fundamental physics.

Richard P. Feynman

#20. I just think we want to stay healthy, and I don't think we think about a sense of urgency. We realize how old we are, we realize we've been playing this game for a long time, but you know what? We're not done yet.

Karl Malone

#21. Think long thoughts in short sentences.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#22. He played the long game as if he was playing the short game, looking to entertain the crowd and paying absolutely no heed to the calibre of the attack, the state of the pitch or even the situation of the match.

David Mutton

#23. Maybe God has a house.
But not here.

Theodore Roethke

#24. I find myself getting associated with a lot of younger people in the game. I still enjoy playing with them, and I think they still enjoy playing with me. As long as I can stay competitive and have fun doing what I'm doing, I guess I'll keep doing it.

Arnold Palmer

#25. This is a game that's going to play as long as you're playing it. It's never going to end. It'll go until I retire, and when the next person has the job, they'll be on it too.

Rick Wagoner

#26. The grinding power of the plain words of the Gospel story is like the power of mill-stones, and those who can read them simply enough will feel as if rocks had been rolled upon them.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#27. Defense usually doesn't make many headlines, but it goes a long way towards winning baseball games. There are a number of ways to make an impact during the course of a game, and playing solid, sound defense is one of them.

Derek Jeter

#28. I wanted to paint nothing. I was looking for something that was the essence of nothing, and the soup can was it.

Andy Warhol

#29. 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