Playing Games Quotes - Page 6

• As soon as the mind and mind identification return; you're no longer yourself but a mental image of yourself, and you start playing games and roles again to get your ego needs met.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Ego, Mind, Needs

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• Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

  Johan Huizinga

  Special, Function, Human Experience

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• He was through playing games. When it came to Soteria, he had no sense of humor whatsoever. Anyone who threatened her, ended their life. It was that simple.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Simple, Sense Of Humor, Threatened

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.784, Macmillan

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• Have McNab take the edge if you need one. Can he handle bad cop?" "He does it really well during personal role-playing games when I'm the reluctant witness.

  Nora Roberts

  Doe, Role Playing, Needs

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• I was anxious to get started, There was so much anticipation. I wanted to get in the routine
  of playing games. It was just nice to be on a team, not competing against these guys in camp [but] trying to
  work together to win.

  Sidney Crosby

  Nice, Team, Winning

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• It feels a little bit funny coming here and telling you guys that Linux and open source are the future of gaming. It's sort of like going to Rome and teaching Catholicism to the pope.

  Gabe Newell

  Teaching, Rome, Guy

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• We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.

  Larry Wall

  Compromise, Programming, Software Engineering

  Usenet article, 1991.

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• This is a great opportunity for Don, and I wish him success. I am incredibly proud of the work and vision culminating in Xbox One. I'm particularly excited about how Xbox pushes forward our devices and services transformation by bringing together the best of Microsoft.

  Steve Ballmer

  Xbox, Opportunity, Vision

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• Another piece of clarification around playing games at a friend's house - should you choose to play your game at your friend's house, there is no fee to play that game while you are signed in to your profile.

  Larry Hryb

  Xbox, House, Pieces

  "Xbox One and Used Games". majornelson.com. May 21, 2013.

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• Keep playing games. Make time to play games with your friends and family, because it's surprisingly heartbreaking to wipe a thin layer of dust off a game you love, before you put it back on the shelf because the real world is calling you.

  Wil Wheaton

  Real, Love Is, Dust

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• It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self.

  Donald Woods Winnicott

  Children, Self, Personality

  Donald Woods Winnicott (2005). “Playing and Reality”, p.73, Psychology Press

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• Champions keep playing until they get it right.

  Billie Jean King

  Inspirational, Sports, Running

  Twitter post from Jan 26, 2015

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• The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Fun, Inspirational Life, Garden

  "All Things Considered". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1908.

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• Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

  Heraclitus

  Inspirational, Happiness, Children

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• It's a great day for a ball game; let's play two!

  Ernie Banks

  Baseball, Two, Coaching

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

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• Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes.

  Brian Clough

  Soccer, Winning, Player

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

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• I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun and the love of play has never left me.

  Kevin Spacey

  Fun, Character, Mean

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• No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.

  W. H. Auden

  Class, Innocence, Action

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• We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Adults, Want

  "David Plouffe on New Obama Deficit Plan; Rep. Eric Cantor on Budget Battle". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. April 10, 2011.

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• It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Children, Serious, Should

  Essais bk. 1, ch. 23 (1580)

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• You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Teaching, Aging, Games

  Nikki Giovanni (1993). “Ego-Tripping and Other Poems for Young People”, p.49, Chicago Review Press

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