Rules of the game Quotes · Page 2

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

— Hayden Fry

Often, when people like me are elected or appointed to positions of senior leadership, the rules of the game seem to change.

— Annamie Paul

“Everyone has his reasons." Octave (Jean Renoir) in "The Rules of the Game.”

— Jean Renoir

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

— Ray Parker, Jr

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

— Amy Tan

I think my biggest trait is to play extremely hard within the rules of the game.

— Patrick Beverley

You have to know the Rules of the Game, Then you have to Play better than anyone else!

— Nikhil Saluja

I had everything working my way, strong as a bull. And still I ignored the rules of the game of life.

— Lawrence Taylor

“Well, if the rules of the game force a bad strategy, maybe we shouldn't try to change strategies. Maybe we should try…

— Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths

Could we chose to amend the rules of the game to create a society that values people over profits, life over pollution,…

— Vicki Robin

“Why should I care that no one reads what I write? I write to forget about life, and I publish because that’s…

— Fernando Pessoa

I feel like it's a good time to be a writer. I'm terminally optimistic. It seems like the publishing industry is in…

— Brad Listi

The rules of the game must be constantly updated to keep up with the expanding technology. Otherwise we overkill the classic climbs…

— Yvon Chouinard

“I don't have to fight or run," [Locke] cackled. "I changed the rules of the game. I just have to keep you…

— Scott Lynch

“Tengo had a gift for such work. He was a born technician, possessing both the intense concentration of a bird sailing through…

— Haruki Murakami

We all have more at stake in the rules of the game than we do in the outcomes of the game. When…

— David Frum

“He couldn't have pulled back the lock, they couldn't simply have climbed over the sides of the stall in all of three…

— John Ajvide Lindqvist

The American people want to make sure that the rules of the game are fair. And what that means is that if…

— Barack Obama

The theory of economic shock therapy relies in part on the roleof expectations on feeding an inflationary process. Reining in inflation requires…

— Naomi Klein

I suspect the popularity of young adults and dystopian novels has something to do with a desire for allegory and old-fashioned morality…

— Allegra Goodman

I am interested in seeing how a certain situation can develop with potential accidents. First, I am inspired by the acts of…

— Francis Alys

“The chess-board is the world; the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the rules of the game are what we call…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

“Since, beginning with the same premise and examining the same body of anthropological evidence, she now arrives at a slightly different sexual…

— Betty Friedan

The rules of the game of life are quite simple. Always tell the truth. Never live in fear of anything or anyone.…

— Iyanla Vanzant

You have to have a government to provide you with legal order, with stability, enforcement of property rights, enforcement of contracts, definition…

— James M. Buchanan

“I too entered the Lager as a nonbeliever, and as a nonbeliever I was liberated and have lived to this day. Actually,…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Tens of millions of dollars have been spent to redefine reality and to convince our neighbors that this new age is something…

— Zohran Mamdani

“In one of his addresses to workingmen Huxley compared life to a game of chess. We must learn the names and the…

— Anonymous

“The warmth of your heart is tauntingly near, but you reserve it as you shut me out in the blizzard of your…

— Shykia Bell

“Her relationships were more about shared memories and common values than about strategic partnerships to help each other succeed. That one killed…

— Donald Miller

“Most of this fixation was easy to explain. Brady was a midfield player, a passer, and Arsenal haven’t really had one since…

— Nick Hornby

American democracy is a chess-game in which pawns imagine themselves to be free individuals with wills of their own: that delusion is…

— Kenny Smith

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

— Jay Wiseman

I can never do better than Fawlty Towers whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules…

— John Cleese

Prosecutorial misconduct is one of the most detrimental problems in our criminal justice system, because prosecutors are essentially the most powerful actors…

— Maya Moore

But people do the same thing with the Bible. They memorize all the fictional characters, the parameters and the rules of the…

— Brad Warner

Setting regulatory certainty is very important for bitcoin. I'm opposed to the regulations, but the bitcoin businesses need to know the rules…

— Roger Ver

“Right now there is a prime opportunity for all of us to change the rules of the game through e-commerce and shift…

— Jack Ma

I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul…

— Eden Hazard

Statehood is not a model for economic development; it is simply a way to organize a federation. What statehood does in fiscal…

— Anibal Acevedo Vila