Play By Theorists Quotes

In essence, we string theorists have been trying to work out the score of the universe, the harmonies of the universe, the mathematical vibrations that the strings would play. So musical metaphors have been with us in science since the beginning. ~ Brian Greene

Delacroix , Wagner , Baudelaire all great theorists, bent on dominating other minds by sensuous means. Their one dream was to create the irresistible effect to intoxicate, or overwhelm. They looked to analysis to provide them with the keyboard on which to play, with certainty, on man's emotions, and they sought in abstract meditation they key to sure and certain action upon their subject man's nervous and psychic being. ~ Charles Baudelaire

Theorists can be wrong; only nature is always right. ~ David Gross

Number theorists are like lotus-eaters
having once tasted of this food they can never give it up. ~ Leopold Kronecker

Only fools, pure theorists, or apprentices fail to take public opinion into account. ~ Jacques Necker

It's numbers like these that both bubble-theorists and market cheerleaders can pounce on to make their points. Reality is more mundane. ~ Prentice Marshall

I am a plain practical man, not one of your theorists and splitters of hairs and choppers of logic. ~ James G. Frazer

I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists. ~ Kathy Acker

One of the main ways in which I get attacked is by being called a conspiracy theorist by the right and the other main attack is actually from the conspiracy theorists who are really pissed at me for not admitting that 9/11 was an inside job. ~ Naomi Klein

Governments and citizens blend together only in the imaginations of political theorists. Government is, and always will be, an alien power over private citizens. There is no magic in a ballot box that makes government any less coercive. ~ James Bovard

Niels Bohr brainwashed a whole generation of theorists into thinking that the job (interpreting quantum theory) was done 50 years ago. ~ Murray Gell-Mann

Some string theorists prefer to believe that string theory is too arcane to be understood by human beings, rather than consider the possibility that it might just be wrong. ~ Lee Smolin

I think the best article was the article about radical feminists being against transgender women. I found that the most fascinating article and I absolutely loved it. I love battles within the gay community or feminist community. I love radical theorists. ~ John Waters

Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game. ~ Matt Taibbi

Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a working-class movement. It is by no means an obvious remedy for the obvious evil which the interests of that class will necessarily demand. It is a construction of theorists. ~ Friedrich August Von Hayek

I love radical theorists. But at the same time, I don't agree with them a lot, but I love their theories. I love how they intellectualize rage, and this inner battle that such a tiny percent of people really care about. I find that the most interesting. ~ John Waters

The theorists theorize without ever getting their feet wet. ~ Morrissey

It is universally appreciated, I think, that theorists are able to tweak their assumptions in order to reach any conclusion they wish. The believability of the conclusion depends not only on the fact that it was reached but on how hard the theorist had to tweak the model to get there. ~ David M. Kreps

Theorists tend to peak at an early age; the creative juices tend to gush very early and start drying up past the age of fifteen-or so it seems. They need to know just enough; when they're young they haven't accumulated the intellectual baggage. ~ Leon M. Lederman

What a conception of art must those theorists have who exclude portraits from the proper province of the fine arts! It is exactly as if we denied that to be poetry in which the poet celebrates the woman he really loves. Portraiture is the basis and the touchstone of historic painting. ~ August Wilhelm Von Schlegel

'Play the right way' means play unselfishly, respect each other's achievements, play hard, fulfill your role ~ Gregg Popovich

Credit Theorists insisted that money is not a commodity but an accounting tool. In other words, it is not a "thing" at all. For a Credit Theorist can no more touch a dollar or a deutschmark than you can touch an hour or a cubic centimeter. Units of currency are merely abstract units of measurement, and as the credit theorists correctly noted, historically, such abstract systems of accounting emerged long before the use of any particular token of exchange. ~ David Graeber

I have been ... moved to wonder whether my job is a job or a racket, whether economists, and particularly economic theorists, may not be in the position that Cicero, citing Cato, ascribed to the augurs of Rome-that they should cover their faces or burst into laugher when they met on the street. ~ Frank Knight

Let truth be told - women do as a rule live through such humiliations, and regain their spirits, and again look about them with an interested eye. While there's life there's hope is a connviction not so entirely unknown to the "betrayed" as some amiable theorists would have us believe. ~ Thomas Hardy

Play well, or play badly, but play truly. ~ Constantin Stanislavski

I told our guys they must not have cable because Antoine Walker knows how to play, Derek Anderson can play, Shandon Anderson knows how to play, and Gary Payton knows how play. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

A good play is a play which when acted upon the boards make an audience interested and pleased. A play that fails in this is a bad play. ~ Maurice Baring

I consider myself a pretty hardworking guy and I like to play hard, play physical and play well defensively too. ~ Mike Fisher

The first major debate between racists had invaded the English discourse. This argument about the cause of inferior Blackness - curse or climate, nature or nurture - would rage for decades, and eventually influence settlers to America. Curse theorists were the first known segregationists. They believed that Black people were naturally and permanently inferior, and totally incapable of becoming White. Climate theorists were the first known assimilationists, believing Black people had been nurtured by the hot sun into a temporary inferiority, but were capable of becoming White if they moved to a cooler climate. ~ Ibram X. Kendi

Cricket is full of theorists who can ruin your game in no time. ~ Ian Botham

Too many theorists have a tendency to ignore facts that contradict their convictions. ~ Maurice Allais

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. ~ Stanley Kubrick

The perfect state, the summum bonum, is Play. In play, life expresses itself in its fullness. God's life is play. Adam fell when his play became serious business . ~ Jakob Bohme

I am often talking about the ideas collected in Normal Life in contexts that are not academic, or that are full of people who are not primarily engaging as theorists or theory-readers. Being able to make ideas visual, especially critical ideas about movements that can be difficult to hear because of attachments we have to certain national narratives, or because of ways that we see ourselves, is especially useful. ~ Dean Spade

I can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe. ~ Bobby Jones

It is play and only play that makes man complete. ~ Friedrich Schiller

Play with heart; Play with passion; Play within yourself; Have fun; Play like a champion. ~ Jim Tressel

If they want to play football, we can play football. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

...play, so far from being "by play," if I may so speak, is a matter of serious moment to the creature. Play is a veritable instinct. ~ Karl Groos

Great short stories and great jokes have a lot in common. Both depend on what communication-theorists sometimes call "exformation," which is a certain quantity of vital information removed from but evoked by a communication in such a way as to cause a kind of explosion of associative connections within the recipient. This is probably why the effect of both short stories and jokes often feels sudden and percussive, like the venting of a long-stuck valve. ~ David Foster Wallace

The old paradigm was pay to play. Now you get back what you authentically put in. You've got to be willing to play to play. ~ Alex Bogusky

I believe adopting free unstructured play, within an appropriate framework, has rich potential in bringing up happy, well-balanced and resilient children. ~ Iben Dissing Sandahl

Paranoia
because why should the conspiracy theorists get to have all the fun? ~ Jim Butcher

I don't think of work as work and play as play. It's all living. ~ Richard Branson

The spirit of playful competition is, as a social impulse, older than culture itself and pervades all life like a veritable ferment. Ritual grew up in sacred play; poetry was born in play and nourished on play; music and dancing were pure play ... We have to conclude, therefore, that civilization is, in its earliest phases, played. It does not come from play ... it arises in and as play, and never leaves it. ~ Johan Huizinga

The founders and grand theorists of modern (quantum and relativity) physics: Einstein, Schroedinger, Heisenberg, Bohr, Eddington, Pauli, de Broglie, Jeans, and Planck. ~ Ken Wilber

They say when the angels play for God, they play Bach, but when they play for each other, they play Mozart. ~ Paul Kitcatt

All the great guitarists have a spirit-a way they play and don't play. ~ Eddie Martinez

Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genuine scientific progress is a slow climb, which requires a stable society to support thinkers and theorists over many generations. ~ Peter F. Hamilton

The best of my nature reveals itself in play, and play is sacred. ~ Isak Dinesen

You control the terms of the conflict. Make them play your game. Don't try to play theirs. ~ John Wooden

Ryan Baker sustained a penalty of play, and we withheld him from play today based on the rules violation. ~ Les Miles

I play with friends, but we don't play friendly games. ~ Ben Hogan

I play a lot chamber music.As for something that's hard for me to play, before I leave this Earth I'm hoping to play Brahms' Second Piano Concerto. ~ Condoleezza Rice

Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines. ~ Iris Murdoch

There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lies happiness. ~ Gelett Burgess

Gambling is not a vice, it is an expression of our humanness.
We gamble. Some do it at the gaming table, some do not.
You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play. ~ Jeanette Winterson

When you play defense you have to storm the fort or play cover - you can't do both. ~ Bear Bryant

I would rather try a shot to win than play safe and finish second. ~ Phil Mickelson

Fish play in the water
birds play in the sky
ordinary beings play on the earth
sublime beings play in display. ~ Thinley Norbu

Scenius." Under this model, great ideas are often birthed by a group of creative individuals - artists, curators, thinkers, theorists, and other tastemakers - who make up an "ecology of talent. ~ Austin Kleon

I feel very fortunate for audiences to have been so gracious as to allow me to do pretty much any role that I felt I could do. They let me play a president. They let me play a lawyer. They let me play a hit man. They let me play a father. They let me play Howard Saint. ~ John Travolta

Turn your sparring into play - but always play seriously. ~ Bruce Lee

Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players. ~ Yanis Varoufakis

Sexual role play provides a creative platform for us to safely express certain aspects of our shadow self. ~ Miya Yamanouchi

Play fast, play smart, play aggressive, bring energy! ~ Bob Sanders

Trios aren't really geared for slide unless you're gonna play chords, or play that simple George Thorogood style. It gets pretty thin when you play single note lines. ~ James Hetfield

I can't shake the feeling that all these conspiracy theorists are in on it. ~ Wynne McLaughlin

All religions, they play football - even nowadays all girls and women have the right to play football in cultures like the Arabic countries in the Muslim they play football. ~ Sepp Blatter

To a certain extent what I do is play with the world, but it's disciplined play. ~ Alex Webb

Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it's the last time. ~ Eric Clapton

If the game is designed for you to lose, don't play that game. Play a different one. ~ Seth Godin

Play cannot be defined, because in play all definitions slither, dance, combine, break apart, and recombine. ~ Stephen Nachmanovitch

Play fair, be prepared for others to play dirty, and don't let them drag you into the mud. ~ Richard Branson

If you're gonna play, play. Don't play! ~ Stephen F. Kaufman

Our goal is not to win. It's to play together and play hard. Then, winning takes care of itself. ~ Mike Krzyzewski

A chimpanzee could learn what I do physically, but it goes way beyond that. When you play, you play life. ~ Jaco Pastorius

People have to see play as more important than what it currently is. We don't want to get boxed into thinking play only happens on a playground. The best type of play is all kinds of play. ~ Darell Hammond

Play with a foole at home, and he will play with you in the market. ~ George Herbert

I don't play just one-two-three-four. I try to play melodies. ~ John Densmore

All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy. ~ Paul Laurence Dunbar

My ideas are a curse.
They spring from a radical discontent
with the awful order of things.
I play clown. I play carpenter. I play nurse.
I play witch. ~ Anne Sexton

If they play dirty, then you play dirty. ~ Lawrence Taylor

If you can play, you can play anything. I don't like classifications. ~ Buddy Rich

I will always be referred to as a theorist, but I was only a fellow traveller with a degree. ~ Volkmar Sigusch

It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play. ~ Mark Rylance

Never play for the win, never play for the draw, just play chess! ~ Alexander Khalifman

I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want - you play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doing - even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years. ~ Thelonious Monk

Why play a chord when you can play one note? ~ Alex Kapranos

Little kids play house; they play war; they play relationships. ~ John Green

Be yourself. Play within yourself. Play your own game. ~ Harvey Penick

I cannot play a lie. I have to believe in what I play or it won't come out. ~ Stan Getz

I think it will be fun to not only play new music, but to get to play different instruments on-stage. ~ Bethany Cosentino

I just do my best to put the ball in play and put it in play where no one's going to make a play on it and hopefully drive some runners in. ~ Joey Votto

Prior to the early 1960s, economic theorists rarely constructed models customized to capture unique institutions or specific market characteristics. ~ George Akerlof

I learned how to play hard to get (push and pull) from my teacher Kwon Jiyong. ~ Seungri

Containment is a strategy for losers! But as General George S. Patton famously observed, Americans play to win all the time. Americans don't play to lose. ~ Bobby Jindal

Now you play the loving woman, I play the faithful man ~ Bruce Springsteen

Both T.S. Eliot and I like to play, but I like to play euchre, while he likes to play Eucharist. ~ Robert Frost