“Sport allows us to engage in dialogue and to build bridges, and it may even have the capacity to reshape international relations. The Olympic Games embody perfectly this universal mission.” MayGamesSportsCapacityUniversalRelationInternationalMissionsDialogueBridgesInternational RelationsOlympic Games Author:Richard Attias
“As if channeling Robbe-Grillet, who strove to establish 'new relations between man and the world,' Sesshu Foster's electrifying prose poems tenderly examine then fiercely weave stark-and-broken realities into luminous dream-like narratives on the game of life.” IfsMenWorldDreamRealityGamesBrokenRelationNarrativeProseLuminousStarksChanneling Author:Wanda Coleman
“Our life is what we make it. An insignificant game or a noble trial; a dream or a reality; a play of the senses worn out in selfish use, and flying "swifter than a weaver's shuttle," or an ascension of the soul, by daily duties and unfaltering faith, to more spiritual relations and to loftier toils.” LifeSoulPlayUseDreamRealitySpiritualLife IsGamesOur LivesDutyRelationNobleSelfishSensesFlyingTrialsWornToilInsignificantWorn OutAscensionWeavers Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin
“Religion has the same relation to man's heavenly condition that mathematics has to his earthly one: both the one and the other are merely the rules of the game. Belief in God and belief in numbers: local truth and truth of location.” MenReligionGamesBeliefNumbersConditionsRelationMathematicsLocalsHeavenlyLocationBelief In GodRules Of The Game Book:The Gift Source: The Gift
“We will prosper or suffer in controlled investments in relation to the operating performances of our businesses - we will not attempt to profit by playing various games in the securities markets.” SufferingGamesSecurityPerformancesRelationInvestmentProfitVariousControlled Author:Warren Buffett
“This is not only a matter of relations between Russia and the United States. In my view, any restrictions in the economic sphere that are dictated by considerations of political expediency are extremely harmful for the world economy as a whole. This destroys unity and the rules of the game.” WorldMatterStatesWholePoliticalGamesUnitedViewsUnited StatesEconomyEconomicRelationUnityRussiaConsiderationSpheresRestrictionExpediencyWorld EconomyRules Of The Game Author:Vladimir Putin
“If it's in the German interest to have good trans-Atlantic relations, well, the task is also to look ahead, but our personal - that we have freedom of movement in the whole of Germany so if we want to see each other, well, I'm game.” IfsWantWellsLooksWholeGamesInterestMovementTasksRelationGermanyTrans Author:Angela Merkel
“A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It's more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.” PeopleThinkingTogetherMovingGamesBallsRelationStrategyInternationalChessBunchInternational RelationsBilliards Author:Madeleine Albright
“...once the cards are dealt we turn them up in turn, and make two piles each, one red, one black; the winner has the biggest pile of red ones. So once the cards are dealt the game is determined, and from any position in it you can derive all others back to the deal and forward to win or draw. ...in relation to the solar system..., the laws are like the rules of an infantile card game.... But in relation to what happens on and inside a planet the laws are, rather, like the rules of chess; the play is seldom determined, though nobody breaks the rules.” TwoPlayHappensActionLawTurnsGamesWinningBlackDealsMoralBreakPsychologyPositionPlanetsDrawsEthicsRedRelationDeterminedChessCardsWinnerSolar SystemInfantile Author:G. E. M. Anscombe
“In order to improve your game you must study the endgame before everything else; for, whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves, the middlegame and the opening must be studied in relation to the endgame.” EndsOrderGamesStudyMiddleRelationChessOpeningChess GameEndgame Author:Jose Raul Capablanca
“When you sit down to play a game you should think only about the position, but not about the opponent. Whether chess is regarded as a science, or an art, or a sport, all the same psychology bears no relation to it and only stands in the way of real chess.” ThinkingWayShouldArtRealPlayGamesSportsPsychologyPositionBearsRelationChessOpponents Author:Jose Raul Capablanca
“The media want to maintain their intimate relation to state power. They want to get leaks, they want to get invited to the press conferences. They want to rub shoulders with the Secretary of State, all that kind of business. To do that, you've got to play the game, and playing the game means telling their lies, serving as their disinformation apparatus.” WantKindMeanStatesPlayPoliticalLyingGamesMediaRelationPressesShouldersIntimateServingSecretaryInvitedConferencesLeaksPress ConferencesMedia Control Author:Noam Chomsky