Games Quotes - Page 10

• The essence of the game is not "fun," but the soul-satisfying awareness that comes from communal work and sacrifice.

  Earl Blaik

  Fun, Sacrifice, Essence

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• You have got to play the game with the cards that have been dealt to you, and it is of no use for you to bewail your fate because you don't hold different ones. Look them over, arrange them, and play. You certainly must play them before you will get any others, and you need never expect to have other people's cards.

  Anna Brackett

  Fate, Acceptance, Play

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• As if channeling Robbe-Grillet, who strove to establish 'new relations between man and the world,' Sesshu Foster's electrifying prose poems tenderly examine then fiercely weave stark-and-broken realities into luminous dream-like narratives on the game of life.

  Wanda Coleman

  Dream, Reality, Men

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• It is often the easiest move that completes the game. Fortune is like the lady whom a lover carried off from all his rivals by putting an additional lace upon his liveries.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Moving, Rivals, Lace

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• Failing at something is one thing, but Buddhism tells us that it is up to us how we interpret that failure [Buddhism] a philosophy and way of life that resonates with me I identify with it. I agree with so much of the sentiment behind it. I enjoy the liberating effect it's had on me to get back into the game Buddhism, with its concepts of karma and rebirth, have freed me from the twin fears of death and life without rugby, like life, will also come to an end.

  Jonny Wilkinson

  Karma, Philosophy, Buddhism

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• No one ever says, 'It's only a game' when their team is winning.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Team, Humor

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• Dr. Howard Archie had just come up from a game of pool with the Jewish clothier and two traveling men who happened to be staying overnight in Moonstone.

  Willa Cather

  Book, Men, Two

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

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• Managing the other fellow's business is a fascinating game. Trade unionists all over the country have pronounced ideas for the reform of Wall Street banks; and Wall Street bankers are not far behind in giving plans for the tremendous improvement of trade union policies. Wholesalers have schemes for improving the retailer; the retailer knows just what is wrong in the conduct of wholesale business-and we might go through a long list.... Yet for some reason the classes that ought to be helped keep on stubbornly clinging to their own method of running their affairs.

  B. C. Forbes

  Running, Country, Wall

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• Prep school, public school, university: these now tedious influences standardize English autobiography, giving the educated Englishman the sad if fascinating appearance of a stuffed bird of sly and beady eye in some old seaside museum. The fixation on school has become a class trait. It manifests itself as a mixture of incurious piety and parlour game.

  V. S. Pritchett

  School, Eye, Class

  "The Tale Bearers: English and American Writers" by Random House, (p. 95), 1980.

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• Our life is what we make it. An insignificant game or a noble trial; a dream or a reality; a play of the senses worn out in selfish use, and flying "swifter than a weaver's shuttle," or an ascension of the soul, by daily duties and unfaltering faith, to more spiritual relations and to loftier toils.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Life, Dream, Spiritual

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• The American economy is going to do fine. But it won't do fine every year and every week and every month. I mean, if you don't believe that, forget about buying stocks anyway... It's a positive-sum game, long term. And the only way an investor can get killed is by high fees or by trying to outsmart the market.

  Warren Buffett

  Believe, Mean, Years

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• Active management is a zero-sum game before cost, and the winners have to win at the expense of the losers.

  Eugene Fama

  Zero, Winning, Cost

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• There is general agreement among researchers that nearly all stock pickers, whether they know it or not-and few of them do-are playing a game of chance.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Agreement, Investing, Chance

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.245, Macmillan

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• Active management is little more than a gigantic con game.

  Ronald Ross

  Investing, Active Management, Littles

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• The commission of the investment sins listed above is not limited to 'the little guy.' Huge institutional investors, viewed as a group, have long underperformed the unsophisticated index-fund investor who simply sits tight for decades. A major reason has been fees: Many institutions pay substantial sums to consultants who, in turn, recommend high-fee managers. And that is a fool's game.

  Warren Buffett

  Long, Guy, Investing

  "Here are the 6 things Warren Buffett considers when making an investment" by Jeremy Schwartz, www.businessinsider.com. March 14, 2015.

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• Experience conclusively shows that index-fund buyers are likely to obtain results exceeding those of the typical fund manager, whose large advisory fees and substantial portfolio turnover tend to reduce investment yields. Many people will find the guarantee of playing the stock-market game at par every round a very attractive one. The index fund is a sensible, serviceable method for obtaining the market's rate of return with absolutely no effort and minimal expense.

  Burton Malkiel

  Yield, People, Effort

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• It can be shown that maximum diversification is achieved by holding each stock in proportion to its value to the entire market (italics added)... Hindsight plays tricks on our minds... often distorts the past and encourages us to play hunches and outguess other investors, who in turn are playing the same game. For most of us, trying to beat the market leads to disastrous results... our actions lead to much lower returns than can be achieved by just staying in the market.

  Jeremy Siegel

  Past, Play, Mind

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• Investing isn't about beating others at their game. It's about controlling yourself at your own game.

  Benjamin Graham

  Investing

  Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.37, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Most look at earnings and earnings potential, well I can't get into that game.

  Walter Schloss

  Looks, Investing, Earning

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• Once you accept that playing the game will be uncomfortable, and you do it for a while, it will become much easier (like it does when getting fit). When you excel at it, you will find your ability to get what you want thrilling.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Growth, Investing

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• Principles are concepts that can be applied over and over again in similar circumstances as distinct from narrow answers to specific questions. Every game has principles that successful players master to achieve winning results. So does life. Principles are ways of successfully dealing with the laws of nature or the laws of life. Those who understand more of them and understand them well know how to interact with the world more effectively than those who know fewer of them or know them less well.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Successful, Player

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• The moment the game (AL Pennant versus the Twins) was over I sprinted for the dugout. The fans were pouring onto the field. If they'd caught me they'd have torn my uniform into shreds for souvenirs.

  Carl Yastrzemski

  Fans, Pouring, Uniforms

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• Probably the most dramatic change in pitching I've observed in my years in baseball has been the disappearance of the knockdown or brushback pitch. This is why record numbers of home runs are flying out of ballparks, why earned run averages are soaring, and why there are so few twenty game winners in the majors.

  Frank Robinson

  Baseball, Running, Home

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's absolutely no way you can go barreling into second and dump a guy on a double play, like you should do, when you've been fraternizing with him before a game.

  Frank Robinson

  Play, Guy, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The English are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket.

  Stephen Leacock

  Fighting, Lazy, Done

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