“The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.”

— Florence Scovel Shinn

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American writer 1871–1940

J. G. Ballard book Super-Cannes

"J.G. Ballard, Super-Cannes"
Super-Cannes (2000)

“I think he is the greatest player to have ever played the game. He walks on the turf and astounds. It is utterly amazing.”

Raúl González (1977) Spanish footballer

May 2007
Luís Figo (11/06/05)
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“I thought of love as a game. It is not a game. It is more serious than death.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale

“Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Illusions
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)
Source: The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“But sooner or later, no matter who you are, life uses everyone as its whipping boy.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Born of Silence

“Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.”

Jerome David Salinger book The Catcher in the Rye

Mr. Spencer
Source: The Catcher in the Rye (1951), Chapter 2

“When I was eight years old, I played a story game with my younger brother and sister to help them fall asleep. The 'word-story game' was where they would choose a word and I would create a story. Acting and directing are similar to this game, where I am given the words then I fill in the life of the characters.”

Carson Grant (1950) American actor

Kaminsky, Denise, Sept 2007, "Carson Grant directs Romeo and Juliet", Associated Content.
About his thoughts on directing and acting, from article on Associated Content.

“Through your thoughts, you create your own games, and you win your own games because perhaps you have forgotten how to play the real game. What is the real game? It is the game in which the heart is entertained, the game in which you are entertained. It is the game that you will win.”

Prem Rawat (1957) controversial spiritual leader

Madrid, Spain September 1992
1990s

“I said: "Baseball is the hurrah game of the republic!" He was hilarious: "That's beautiful: the hurrah game! well — it's our game: that's the chief fact in connection with it: America's game: has the snap, go fling, of the American atmosphere — belongs as much to our institutions, fits into them as significantly, as our constitutions, laws: is just as important in the sum total of our historic life."”

Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist

Conversation with Whitman (4 July 1889) as quoted in With Walt Whitman in Camden (1906) by Horace Traubel, Vol. IV

“Beating the market is a zero-sum game for investors. Money managers, as a group, must provide the market return… But that return comes only before their exorbitant fees, operating expenses, and portfolio turnover costs are deducted. The zero-sum game before costs becomes a loser’s game after costs.”

John Bogle (1929–2019)

Gilbert Lecture, Princeton University, Feb 21, 2013

“The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.”

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