Puzzle Makers

Life is holy puzzle. - Lailah G. Akita

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

Why should things be easy to understand? - Thomas Pynchon

I try to figure out the marketing puzzle. - Nelson Peltz

Time is a game played beautifully by children. - Heraclitus

Golf is an easy game, it's just hard to play. - Unknown

Love: one game never postponed on account of darkness. - Unknown

Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle. - Lewis Carroll

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. - Erich Fromm

The markets are the world's greatest Rubik's cube. - Rick Santelli

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. - Minna Antrim

When you make weirdness into a puzzle to be solved, you make LOST. - Joseph Fink

Life is a game show where the people who enjoy it are the winners. - Orson Bean

I think it's wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly. - Steven Wright

I don't use simple words. I make games and puzzles with my songs. - Lisa Loeb

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. - Morticia Addams

Most of the places I've been, I've been a main piece of the puzzle. - Eric Davis

I still have my teeth. I don't want to lose them at age 61 in some hockey game. - Jim Flaherty

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. - Scott Adams

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

Like the cosmetics industry, the securities business is engaged in selling illusion. - Paul Samuelson

If you're in a card game and you don't know who the sucker is, you're it. - Unknown

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin

Sometimes the hardest pieces of a puzzle to assemble, are the ones missing from the box. - Dixie Waters

My favorite puzzle is trying to work out the parts myself, after all it is a solo effort. - Adrian Belew

Writing is mentally stimulating; it's like a puzzle that makes you think all the time. - Stephanie Zimbalist

I have a tip that can take five strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser. - Arnold Palmer

Winners lose more than losers. They win and lose more than losers, because they stay in the game. - Terry Paulson

I go into every game thinking I'm going to be the hero. I have to, or I wouldn't enjoy it. - Derek Jeter

I think the thing you always got to keep in mind, you know, hockey is a game of one-on-one battles. - Mark Messier

He cared less, so they cared more. He said it was beautiful. I knew he was broken.This was his game. - Coco J. Ginger

Human affairs are like a chess game: Only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. - Hung Tzu-ch'eng

If you believe you have a foolproof system you have failed to take into consideration the creativity of fools. - Frank W. Abagnale

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. - Ernest Hemingway

If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. - Chinese Proverb

I love solving puzzles, I love finding my way around obstacles, and I love learning new things about technology. - Kevin Mitnick

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. - George Lois

We are all important parts of a much larger system, pieces of the universe's puzzle that would not be complete without us. - Russell E. Dobda

If you make every game a life-and-death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot. - Dean Smith

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. - John Leonard

Cricket - a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity. - Lord Mancroft

The family should be a place where each new human being can have an early atmosphere conducive to the development of constructive creativity. - Edith Schaeffer

Conundrum: A fun word to repeat over and over again when no one's listening; actual meaning is as puzzling as the need to chant the word. - Richelle E. Goodrich

Don't lie. Life is a puzzle and we are all unique pieces. When you lie, you make it impossible to find your true place in the grand design. - Steve Maraboli

From lessening negativity to boosting creativity, hiking in fresh air actually boosts brain power and can help certain parts of the brain grow. - Meredith Carey

The monkeys solved the puzzle simply because they found it gratifying to solve puzzles. They enjoyed it. The joy of the task was its own reward. - Daniel H. Pink

When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource. - Biz Stone

Nobody like to fail, but failure is an essential part of life and of learning. If your uniform isn't dirty, you haven't been in the game. - Ben Bernanke

Golf is a thinking man's game. You can have all the shots in the bag, but if you don't know what to do with them, you've got troubles. - Chi Chi Rodriguez

How much replay do we want? Because if you start doing it from the first inning to the ninth inning, you may have to time the game with a calendar. - Joe Torre