Puzzle Makers

Creativity takes courage. - Henri Matisse

Golf is a puzzle without an answer. - Gary Player

The legs are the wheels of creativity. - Albert Einstein

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity. - Douglas Horton

A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution. - Hazel Nicholson

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. - Frank Capra

My favorite part of the game? The opportunity to play. - Mike Singletary

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

What a strange illusion to suppose that beauty is goodness. - Leo Tolstoy

The world is the puzzle, itself; but it is always in principle. - Dada Bhagwan

An optimist is a man who starts a crossword puzzle with a fountain pen. - Unknown

I don't want to retire. I'm not that good at crossword puzzles. - Norman Mailer

How has retirement affected my golf game? A lot more people beat me now. - Dwight D Eisenhower

Out of suffering comes creativity. You cannot spell painting without pain. - John Lithgow

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

God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball. - LeBron James

This could be a repeat of what will happen in the European games next week. - David Coleman

In the game of life, before you get anything out, you must put something in. - Zig Ziglar

You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball. - Bobby Knight

I'm always suspicious of games where you're the only ones that play it. - Jack Charlton

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. - Diane Ackerman

The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three-run homers. - Unknown

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead. - Erma Bombeck

Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game. - Paul Rodriguez

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

In one equation you can solve all the puzzles of life. It is the equation of giving. - Amit Ray

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

Your family is depending on you. No better reason to bring all your game all the time. - Grant Cardone

The only game I like to play is "Old Maid", providing she's not too old. - Groucho Marx

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. - Scott Adams

Children's games are hardly games. Children are never more serious than when they play. - Michel de Montaigne

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

Field hockey is my strongest sport, and if I lose a game, I take a long, hot bath and moan about it. - Emma Watson

I wouldn't ever set out to hurt anyone deliberately unless it was important, like a league game. - Dick Butkus

Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you - if you don't play, you can't win. - Robert Heinlein

I have a Rubik's Cube for a rearview mirror, because the past is the only time puzzle I can solve. - Jarod Kintz

I'm going to be eighty soon, and I guess the one thing that puzzles me most is how quick it got here. - Roy Acuff

I'm a games and theory king of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare's prose. - Neil Patrick Harris

You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference. - Chris Evert

Creativity is not intelligence, it is the ability to do what you did not know through the use of what you know. - Michael B. Johnson

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

In every jigsaw puzzle, there is one key piece, and the only tough job is to identify that key piece from the mess out there. - Sapan Saxena

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

Basketball, a game which won’t be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus high and return the giraffes to the zoo. - Ogden Nash

The real question one should ask when presented with a puzzle is, "Should I solve it? Do I really need to know the answer?" - Tony DiTerlizzi

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. - Tom Robbins

I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win. - Michael Jordan

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

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

In the game of life, it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season. - Bill Vaughan