Rules Of The Game Quotes by Yvon Chouinard, David Frum, Iris Murdoch, Amy Tan, Orji Uzor Kalu, Michael Scott and many others.

The rules of the game must be constantly updated to keep up with the expanding technology. Otherwise we overkill the classic climbs and delude ourselves into thinking we are better climbers than the pioneers.
We all have more at stake in the rules of the game than we do in the outcomes of the game. When that changes, that’s when you begin to lose democracy.
The human soul is not framed for continued proximity, and the result of this enforced neighbourhood is often an appalling loneliness for which the rules of the game forbid assuagement.
I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength…”strongest wind cannot be seen.”
A good businessman sees where others don’t see. What I see, you may not see. You cannot see because that is the secret of the business… the entire world is a big market waiting for anybody who knows the rules of the game.
Master the rules of the game until you can play it better they can.
So long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.
In football, like in life, you must learn to play within the rules of the game.
The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.
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.
We have a lot of sort of received historical ways of viewing portraiture. And I suppose in some way I’m sort of questioning that by toying with the rules of the game.
The churches must realize that when they take a position on a political event that they must accept the rules of the game.
Dominants often make excellent submissives. They know the rules of the game.
The great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not strangle the voice of creativity, that the rules of the game do not come to overshadow its purpose, that the grand orchestration of society leaves ample room for the man who marches to the music of another drummer.
But people do the same thing with the Bible. They memorize all the fictional characters, the parameters and the rules of the game and think it’s important, but I can’t get excited about that myself.
All lovers unconsciously establish their own rules of the game, which from the outset admit of no transgression.
Every separate sector of artistic creation has its own basic rules . . . data which govern it. They are contained in the textbooks on these subjects. A professional knows the rules of the game as a matter of course so that he can achieve, in the upper strata above that, a high quality of art.