Big Ideas tagged with "Game"
- Eric Butterworth: Why Be Average?
- T. Harv Eker: Playing to Win
- John Eliot: Bill Russell & Barfing
- Marcus Aurelius: The Equanimity Game
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Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band-Aid remedies never last.
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Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one-yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.
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Most communication resembles a Ping-Pong game in which people are merely preparing to slam their next point across; but pausing to understand differing points of view and associated feelings can turn apparent opponents into true members of the same team.
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Bill Russell is one of the great names in basketball, an all-American… and the only athlete to ever win an NCAA Championship, an Olympic Gold Medal, and a professional championship all in the same year—1956…But Bill Russell had this one problem: He threw up before every game.
~ John Eliot, Ph.D. quotes from Overachievement: The New Model for Exceptional Performance
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I've missed more than nine thousand shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
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If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.
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Those who play the game do not see it as clearly as those who watch.
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How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
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Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.
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We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
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Rich people play the money game to win. Poor people play the money game to not lose.
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How do you want to live your life? How do you want to play the game? Do you want to play in the big leagues or in the little leagues, in the majors or the minors? Are you going to play big or play small? It’s your choice.
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