Playing Quotes - page 10

If you're going to create, create a lot. Creativity is not like playing the slot machines, where failure to win means you go home broke. With creativity, if you don't win, you're usually no worse off than if you hadn't played. (Scott Adams)
There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
The studio people want me to do "Good-bye Charlie" for the movies, but I'm not going to do it. I don't like the idea of playing a man in a woman's body - you know? It just doesn't seem feminine. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along. View quote
Terry Pratchett
I have these large pieces of recycled brown paper stretched on my apartment wall and when I am not doing anything fashion-related, I'm drawing on it, playing with colour spectrums. View quote
Sasha Pivovarova
Games are won by players who focus on the playing field –- not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard. View quote
Warren Buffett
I grew up playing in clubs - that's my spiritual stomping ground. View quote
Eric Clapton
Every man is a divinity in disguise, a God playing the fool. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm kind of a dork. I don't have much game. I'm not particularly comfortable in bars or clubs. I much prefer being home playing Scrabble, having dinner with a couple friends, going to see a movie, or losing a whole weekend to Season 14 of Law and Order or The Simpsons. View quote
Wentworth Miller
I enjoy darker sardonic wit more than knock-knock jokes. I spent the first healthy chunk of my career playing all-American, pleasant, average, nice people, so it's fun to have some complications there. View quote
Neil Patrick Harris
Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward. (Robert Collier)
Perfectionism becomes a badge of honor with you playing the part of the suffering hero. View quote
David D. Burns
Instead of buying airplanes and playing around like some of our competitors, we've rolled almost everything back into the company. View quote
Bill Gates
I'm really looking forward to playing in Copenhagen again. Last time I stayed as long as I could, took pictures, signed autographs, and hung out until they through me out of the place! View quote
George Duke
It's about the time I was riding my Motorcycle, going down a mountain road at 150 miles an hour, playing my guitar. View quote
Arlo Guthrie
The downside of playing dumb is that you sound dumb. View quote
Rachel Maddow
... condoms are about as effective against AIDS as a twenty-four-chamber gun instead of a six-chamber gun when playing Russian roulette. View quote
Peter Kreeft
While you're playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and not entirely dense person. But just begin a conversation with him about something inedible, politics or science, for instance, and he ends up in a deadend or starts in on such an obtuse and base philosophy that you can only wave your hand and leave. View quote
Anton Chekhov
He who wants to educate himself in Chess must evade what is dead in Chess...the habit of playing with inferior opponents; the custom of avoiding difficult tasks; the weakness of uncritically taking over variations or rules discovered by others; the vanity which is self-sufficient; the incapacity for admitting mistakes; in brief, everything that leads to standstill or to anarchy. View quote
Emanuel Lasker
The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Remember this moment. If we don't convince the field marshal (Fedor von Bock) to fly to Hitler at once and have these orders (Commissar Order) canceled, the German people will be burdened with a guilt the world will not forget in a hundred years. This guilt will fall not only on Hitler, Himmler, Göring, and their comrades but on you and me, your wife and mine, your children and mine, that woman crossing the street, and those children over there playing ball. (Henning von Tresckow)
Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature. View quote
Robert Redford
Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing. View quote
Lionel Messi
The playing field is more sacred than the stock exchange, more blessed than Capital Hill or the vaults of Fort Knox. The diamond and the gridiron - and, to a lesser degree, the court, the rink, the track, and the ring - embody the American dream of Eden. View quote
Lewis H. Lapham
On a day - alack the day! - Love, whose month is ever May, Spied a blossom passing fair Playing in the wanton air. View quote
William Shakespeare