Rules Of The Game Quotes

• You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• To know the rules of the game, you have to be educated.

  LL Cool J

  Games, Skyfall, Educated

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• The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.

  Thomas Huxley

  Life, Player, Games

  'Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews' (1870) 'A Liberal Education'

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• The rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature.

  Thomas Huxley

  Expanding Universe, Law, Games

  'Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews' (1870) 'A Liberal Education'

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• Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray.

  Joe Garagiola

  Baseball, Team, Home

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• Master the rules of the game until you can play it better they can.

  Michael Scott

  Games, Play, Masters

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  You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

  Richard Branson

  Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

  Richard Branson (2010). “Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur”, Virgin

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• We all have more at stake in the rules of the game than we do in the outcomes of the game. When that changes, that's when you begin to lose democracy.

  David Frum

  Games, Democracy, Outcomes

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength..."strongest wind cannot be seen."

  Amy Tan

  Strength, Mother, Art

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• The rules of the game of life are quite simple. Always tell the truth. Never live in fear of anything or anyone. Be conscious of what you are thinking so you can always think positively. Do everything that you do for the love of doing it. If you devote yourself, your time and your energy to following these rules, have no doubt - you cannot lose!

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Thinking, Simple, Games

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Mar 03, 2015

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• I know the rules of the game, you hit it once, then break away clean.

  Ray Parker, Jr.

  Games, Infidelity, Adultery

  Song: The Other Woman, Album: The Other Woman

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• Women can always be caught; that's the first rule of the game.

  Ovid

  Women, Games, Firsts

  Ovid (1957). “The Loves: The Art of Beauty, The Remedies for Love, and The Art of Love”, p.113, Indiana University Press

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• Dominants often make excellent submissives. They know the rules of the game.

  Jay Wiseman

  Games, Excellent, Knows

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• In football, like in life, you must learn to play within the rules of the game.

  Hayden Fry

  Sports, Football, Games

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• Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to play chess." - Ch. 5

  Amy Tan

  Play, Want, Chess

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• There is one and only one responsibility of business: to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game.

  Milton Friedman

  Business, Responsibility, Games

  Milton Friedman (2009). “Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition”, p.133, University of Chicago Press

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• A good businessman sees where others don’t see. What I see, you may not see. You cannot see because that is the secret of the business… the entire world is a big market waiting for anybody who knows the rules of the game.

  Orji Uzor Kalu

  Games, Waiting, Secret

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• Theatre is a game of hide-and-seek. For both the hiders and the seekers, the thrill is in the discovery. When the rules of the game are too vague or too complicated, however, the audience can lose its urge to play; the prize no longer seems quite worth the hunt.

  John Lahr

  Discovery, Games, Play

  "The Human Circus" by John Lahr, www.newyorker.com. March 1, 2010.

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• Part of writing is discovering the rules of the game and then deciding whether to follow the rules or to break them. The great thing about the game of poetry is that it's always your turn - I guess that goes back to my being an only child. So once it's under way, there is a sense of flow.

  Billy Collins

  Children, Writing, Games

  "A Brisk Walk". Interview with Joel Whitney, www.guernicamag.com. June 14, 2006.

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• The goal of life is not to win. It is to play the game with love. The rules of the game are: have a strong desire to win, believe that you are worthy of winning, have faith that you will win, and, as long as you are alive, never believe that the game is over.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Strong, Believe, Winning

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Mar 09, 2017

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• Could we chose to amend the rules of the game to create a society that values people over profits, life over pollution, mutual care over guns and prisons, vision over dysfunction?

  Vicki Robin

  Gun, Games, Dysfunction

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• I stand for the square deal. I mean not merely that I stand for fair play under the present rules of the game, but that I stand for having those rules changed so as to work for a more substantial equality of opportunity and of reward for equally good service.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Mean, Opportunity, Squares

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.177, Cornell University Press

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• The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.

  Abraham Pais

  Moving, Games, Would Be

  "To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue" edited by Ellen Land-Weber, Part I, Holland, Ch. 1, (p. 48), 2000.

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• The Kremlin is constantly changing the rules of the game to suit its purposes. We are not playing chess, we're playing roulette.

  Garry Kasparov

  Games, Purpose, Roulette

  "Russia Is Not a Democracy". Interview with Uwe Klussmann and Matthias Schepp, www.spiegel.de. March 15, 2007.

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• So long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.

  Milton Friedman

  Games, Long, Competition

  Milton Friedman (2009). “Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition”, p.133, University of Chicago Press

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