The Score Quotes

“Games grant us a precious experience of clarity. It is a clarity of purpose—a clarity of value. In a game, for once in our lives, we know exactly what we’re supposed to be doing, and afterward, we know exactly how well we have done. There are no larger questions about the meaning of our lives, no existential angst about our goals, no ambiguity. We know what we are pursuing in explicit, immaculate, unquestionable detail. Games offer value clarity. They are an existential balm for the confusion of ordinary life.”
― C. Thi Nguyen, The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game

“A pastor recently told me that his church had become completely obsessed with baptism rates. The higher-ups had established an internal leaderboard in which the pastors competed on monthly baptism rates, and it was starting to dominate everybody’s attention. He’d found himself caring less about the long-term spiritual development of his flock and focusing more on trying to deliver popular sermons that would up his baptism rates and move him up that leaderboard.”
― C. Thi Nguyen, The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game

“If you don’t care about the truth”
― C. Thi Nguyen, The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game

“There is an underlying worldview implied by her salsa rage. She has assumed that left to its own devices”
― C. Thi Nguyen, The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game

“Art is a game. And like a lot of games”
― C. Thi Nguyen, The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game