Quotes by Games The fools standpoint is that all social institutions are games. He sees the whole world as game playing. That's why, when people take their games seriously and take on stern and pious expressions, the fool gets the giggles because he knows that it is all a game. Alan Watts expression games people If you insist on being determined by the past that's your game, but the fact of the matter is it all starts right now. Alan Watts matter games past Substances like LSD, which give away a secret about the nature of the social game - the human game and what underlies it - are potentially dangerous, of course, like any good thing is. Electricity is dangerous, fire is dangerous, cars are dangerous, planes are dangerous, but not so dangerous as driving on the freeway. The only way to handle danger is to face it. If you start getting frightened of it, then you make it worse. Because you project onto it all kinds of bogeys and threats which don't exist in it at all. Alan Watts fire games giving Yet again, the more you strive for some kind of perfection or mastery—in morals, in art or in spirituality—the more you see that you are playing a rarified and lofty form of the old ego-game, and that your attainment of any height is apparent to yourself and to others only by contrast with someone else's depth or failure. Alan Watts perfection games art The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever. Alan Watts self games play I have suggested that behind almost all myth lies the mono-plot of the game of hide-and-seek. Alan Watts plot games lying Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games. Alastair Campbell team games meaningful Jeremy, are we going to play your games? Alastair Campbell games play america I'm the kind of person that as long as you respect me and don't distract me before the game, then I'll respect you in return and accommodate you after the game. Sometimes the situation dictates that I talk, but everybody should understand I'm not going to talk every day, whether we're in first place or last place. Albert Belle lasts games long There were so many Cuban-Americans upset that we were going to Cuba and I was curious to see why they were so angry, and anti-Castro. I found out as soon as we got there. The people were treated terrible. The conditions were terrible. I can see why people risk their lives and limbs to get out. (Fidel Castro) lives like a king and won't help anybody, and has everybody scared to death. Nobody lives a normal life. It was still a good experience, but I thought we should just play that one game. Albert Belle kings games play I have high expectations for myself. I'm not out there playing the game just to be playing it. I want to win a championship. Albert Belle expectations games winning I look back over my career and I almost pissed it away. I got a second chance and I've made the most of my opportunity. I play every game like it's the last game of my career. Albert Belle second-chance games opportunity You can equate acting to a tennis game: When you're playing one of the best, you get better. Albert Brooks tennis get-better games Games are the most elevated form of investigation. Albert Einstein playing-games form games I do not play games. There is not time for it. When I get through with work, I don't want anything that requires the working of the mind. Albert Einstein games mind play The enormous mental resilience, without which no Chess player can exist, was so much taken up by Chess that he could never free his mind of this game Albert Einstein taken player games There are six-million shots in the game of pool. Albert Einstein pool six games I have always disliked the fierce competitive spirit embodied in that highly intellectual game. Albert Einstein intellectual games chess No human mind may measure the blessings conferred by the game of base ball on the soldiers of the Civil War. It had its earliest evolution when soldiers, North and South, were striving to forget their foes by cultivating, through this grand game, fraternal friendships with comrades in arms. Albert Goodwill Spalding blessing games war The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game. Albert Goodwill Spalding genius baseball games «1234567891011»