Quotes 181 till 200 of 499.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
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If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.
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If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.
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If the house is on fire, and the fireman shows up, you don't question his color or credentials. You don't send him back to the firehouse and say, 'Send somebody else.'
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If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained... it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will.
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If we must play the theological game, let us never forget that it is a game. Religion, it seems to me, can survive only as a consciously accepted system of make-believe.
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If we're going to talk about our businesses, we're going to have to talk about them within the constraints of the disclosure rules, without giving guidance, because we're not going to give guidance, because we don't believe that it is a sensible game to play.
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If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.
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If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.
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If you want to really know what your friends and family think of you die broke, and then see who shows up for the funeral.
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If you want to understand financial markets, and their effects on the economy, you have to understand the trading game. Many short-term price movements are neither random nor caused by economic fundamentals. They're caused by investors buying and selling.
Source: The Poker Face of Wall Street (2006) Ch. 1 -
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
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If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.
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If you're going to play the game [politics] properly, you'd better know every rule.
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Improvisation is not a presentational form, except in small doses, or as a game. It's a tool.
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In Beverly Hills... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows.
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In our game, it's your vanity that keeps you in shape. I've got a little gym set up, and I ride a single-speed bike up the hills behind my house. Lately I've been kind of a slacker. Usually it's a film role that makes me start getting in shape. Between roles, I try to do a little maintenance, but I'm not a workout fanatic at all.
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In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.
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In Sweden, they broadcast the American shows in English with Swedish subtitles, whereas in many European countries they dub them. Watching those shows in English was big for me.
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