“All athletes speak about the mental element of athletics, and it usually boils down to the same thing: if you can remove your ego from the game, you can function with much more clarity and you are more likely to succeed. Wouldn't it be interesting if we all began speaking about the mental element of our lives in this way?” IfsWayGamesSpeakInterestingOur LivesSucceedEgoElementsFunctionAthleteClarityRemoveAthletics Author:Garth Stein
“I don't know how we could use it to improve the job that umpires do, ... The human element in sport has always been a big part of the game. I'm a football fan, too, and I hate instant replay in the NFL. Football games are taking four hours.” KnowsHumansUseBigsJobsHateGamesSportsHoursKnow HowFourFansFootballElementsI HateInstantNflUmpiresFootball GameFootball FanReplayNfl FootballInstant Replay Author:Bud Selig
“Game balance is a really important element of Mario Kart that we look very, very closely at and place a lot of value on.” LooksImportantValuesGamesBalanceElementsMarioMario Kart Author:Hideki Konno
“All the writing elements are the same. You need to tell a good story... You've got good characters... People think there's some dramatic difference between writing 'Little Bear' and the 'Hunger Games,' and as a writer, for me, there isn't.” PeopleThinkingNeedsWritingLittlesCharacterStoriesGamesDifferencesBearsElementsHungerDramaticGood StoryGood Character Author:Suzanne Collins
“It provides a different type of element and mental strain athletes love. That's what makes the game of golf so special.” DifferentGamesSpecialTypeElementsGolfAthleteStrain Author:Tiger Woods
“Prose is an art form, movies and acting in general are art forms, so is music, painting, graphics, sculpture, and so on. Some might even consider classic games like chess to be an art form. Video games use elements of all of these to create something new. Why wouldn't video games be an art form?” ArtUseMightFormGamesActingPaintingElementsChessVideoClassicProseSomething NewSculpture Author:Sam Lake
“Until I came to IBM, I probably would have told you that culture was just one among several important elements in any organization's makeup and success - along with vision, strategy, marketing, financials, and the like... I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game, it is the game. In the end, an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value.” PeopleImportantEndsValuesCultureGamesBusinessVisionElementsCapacityAspectOrganizationStrategyEntrepreneurMarketingCorporationsMy TimeJust OneCollectivesMakeupCeoIbm Author:Lou Gerstner
“Soccer is a continuous game, rugby is a continuous game, but for the physical elements that are involved in playing a football game and the number of plays that you play, I don't know that it was ever intended to be a continuous game.” KnowsPlayGamesNumbersFootballInvolvedElementsSoccerRugbyFootball Game Author:Nick Saban
“I love the game, it's the greatest game on earth, that's why I can't understand all of this talk about trying to make the game better. People talk about the high strike zone and changing this and that. Why? To speed up the game? That's the beauty of baseball. There is no time element.” PeopleInspirationalTryingI CanMotivationalEarthGamesElementsBaseballSpeedStrikesZone Author:Eric Davis
“We've kind of grown up in a post-Star Wars era, and what Star Wars did to cinema, in terms of an explosion of that kind of blockbuster culture. It's thrown up a generation of geeks. With the evolution of computer games and the Internet, that's all impacted on us as a generation, and affected the creative element of that generation enormously. So whereas the different schools of filmmaking...” KindDifferentWarSchoolCultureGamesStarsTermCreativeGenerationsEvolutionInternetElementsComputerErasPostsCinemaThrownAffectedFilmmakingGeekExplosionsBlockbusterComputer Games Author:Simon Pegg
“I've done films about games. What I like with games is that there is this uncertain outcome and the element of chance.” DoneFilmGamesChanceElementsOutcomesUncertain Author:Jørgen Leth
“...As every one of us knows, there are some festivals and games in which everything goes right, and every element lifts up, animates, and exalts every other, just as there are theatrical and musical performances which without any clearly discernible cause seem to ascend miraculously to glorious climaxes and intensely felt experiences, whereas others, just as well prepared, remain no more than decent tries.” KnowsTryingWellsSeemsGamesFeltCausesElementsPerformancesPreparedMusicalLiftsGloriousDecentFestivalsTheatricalClimaxMusical Performance Author:Hermann Hesse
“Maleness in America is not absolutely defined; it has to be kept and re-earned every day, and one essential element in the definition is beating women in every game that both sexes play.” PlayAmericaGamesSexEssentialsElementsDefinitionsDefinedMaleness Author:Margaret Mead
“I'm aware of the luck in [BABIP], but at the same time, you can't directly influence it. You can just keep mixing your patterns, executing and locating, That's the human element of this game.” HumansGamesInfluenceElementsLuckPatternsMixingExecuting Author:Max Scherzer
“What I'm doing is creating a game. I'm not making a movie. To make the game more enjoyable and captivating, and to make the player feel like he's present in that setting, we need the cinematic element.” NeedsFeelsGamesPlayerElementsCreatingSettingSettingsEnjoyableCinematicCaptivating Author:Hideo Kojima
“I wouldn't say I'm a spender in the sense that I'm going out on huge spending sprees. However, to be able to function at the top of your game on the professional tennis circuit often requires an element of frequent spending.” AbleGamesHugeElementsFunctionSpendingTennisGoing OutCircuits Author:Andy Murray
“Initially it was a fascination for Tolkienesque Fantasy, and role-playing games, with time I realized that it was the mythological elements that fascinated me the most, so I moved more and more in that direction.” GamesRolesFantasyElementsMovedI RealizedFascinatedFascinationPlaying GamesRole Playing Author:Varg Vikernes
“I have loved football as an almost mythic game since I was in the fourth grade. To me, the game wasn't even grounded in reality. The uniform turned you into a warrior. Being on a team, the mythology of physical combat, the struggle against the elements, the narrative of the game.” RealityGamesStruggleTeamFootballElementsMythologyWarriorNarrativeGradesCombatFourthUniformsGroundedFourth Grade Author:Steve Sabol
“There has to be the popcorn genre element, or I don't engage the same way. I like action and vehicle design and guns and computer graphics as much as I like allegory. It's a constant balancing game. I want audiences to be on this rollercoaster that fits the Hollywood mould, but I also want them to absorb my observations.” WayWantActionGamesAudienceDesignFitElementsComputerGunHollywoodConstantObservationGenreVehiclePopcornMouldAllegoryRollercoasterComputer Graphics Author:Neill Blomkamp
“Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn’t be more simple, nor the stakes higher.” EndsGamesSimplePiecesHigherElementsChessStakesLifeboatsLife Of Pi Book Book:Life Of Pi, Illustrated Source: Life Of Pi, Illustrated
“In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and - SNAP - the job's a game!” DoneJobsGamesFunTeacherElementsSnapsChildren's LiteratureChildren BookChildren LiteratureWriting Children's Books Author:Julie Andrews