Quotes About Game

If you didn't play the plebe system as if it were a game, he thought, it could be a debilitating ordeal.

When you're a sportswriter, you learn how to use your imagination and to flex your literary muscle, because it's the same game played over and over again. There's nothing unique or marvelous. It's not an earthquake, or a weird mass murder. It's just the same old game played over and over, and you have to bring out the personalities. You have to drag them kicking and screaming out into the light of day, or you're not a good sportswriter.

I would tell players to relax and never think about what's at stake. Just think about the basketball game. If you start to think about who is going to win the championship, you've lost your focus.

It's a pity you didn't know when you started your game of murder, that I was playing, too.

Each one of us has the ability to play the game of life with balance, harmony and joy, but we need to know the rules and the principles.

The meritocratic claim that people are paid what they are worth in the market is a tautology that begs the questions of how the market is organized and whether that organization is morally and economically defensible. In truth, income and wealth increasingly depend on who has the power to set the rules of the game.

truth, income and wealth increasingly depend on who has the power to set the rules of the game.

The seductive game of poker is one that I do not understand. I do not care to understand it, because it cannot be played without the putting up of a good deal of the coin of the realm, and although I have nothing to say against betting, my own theory of conduct in the matter is this, that I want no man's money which I do not earn, and I do not want any man to get my money unless he earns it.

Only when you've had that experience of falling in love with something, Barron believes, will learning the rules that support it make sense. Otherwise, "rule-talk" is always going to seem like someone trying to control another, like an exercise in power rather than liberation to play the game well.

One of the chief duties of the fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him. This department of the game has been allowed to run down fearfully.

Whoever dreamed up Scrabble had an exaggerated idea of how many seven-letter words have five i's.

In life's poker game, the optimist sees the pessimist's night and raises him the sunrise.

At my house, when a missing pawn shows up in the Scrabble tiles, it counts as an extra blank.

The perfect family board game is one that can be played each time with fewer pieces.

The trouble that most of us find with the modern matched sets of clubs is that they don't really seem to know any more about the game than the old ones did.

This game of constant duplicity most resembles the power dynamic that existed in the scheming world of the old aristocratic court.

Making a show of one's weakness is actually a very effective strategy, subtle and deceptive, in the game of power.

Our world today similarly imagines itself the pinnacle of fairness, yet the same ugly emotions still stir within us, as they have forever. The game is the same.

Power is a game—this cannot be repeated too often—and in games you do not judge your opponents by their intentions but by the effect of their actions.

One master said, "He doesn't just look for the best move. He looks for the move that will disturb the man he is playing.

These types, for example, will often display their weakness and lack of power as a kind of moral virtue. But true powerlessness, without any motive of self-interest, would not publicize its weakness to gain sympathy or respect. Making a show of one's weakness is actually a very effective strategy, subtle and deceptive, in the game of power

Genuinely innocent people may still be playing for power, and are often horribly effective at the game, since they are not hindered by reflection. Once again, those who make a show or display of innocence are the least innocent of all.

The lions sing and the hills take flight. The moon by day, and the sun by night. Blind woman, deaf man, jackdaw fool. Let the Lord of Chaos rule. -chant from a children's game heard in Great Arvalon, the Fourth Age

As she spoke, the dice started tumbling inside his head.