Jane McGonigal Quotes

Things like depression and obesity are global challenges.

Jane McGonigal

• Depression

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• In order that people who suffer from depression seek treatment without a second thought, the stigmas must further fall until we reach a point in time when that person with leukemia and that person with depression both receive the same level of sympathy and the same level of rigorous treatment. Both people deserve it.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • People
  • Time
  • Fall

• I grew up, until age 6, in Chicago. My parents rented their apartment and, at the end of the Depression, my parents wanted to replicate that situation. So, again, we lived in a somewhat suburban setting outside of New York City, and again, they rented.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Up
  • Age
  • Parents

• Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Think
  • You
  • Meet

• It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Always
  • Theatre
  • Scary

• I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Life
  • True
  • Feeling

• We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Heart
  • America
  • Black

• I had a low image of myself because I was brought up in the deep Depression.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Deep

• Disney's House of the Future had the clean simplicity prized in the 1950s as relief from decades of frayed patchwork, jury-rigging, and make-do clutter caused by Depression and war.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • War
  • Future
  • House

• Studies by many labs have already started to identify specific circuits of neurons involved in normal cognitive function like memory and learning, as well as disease processes such as Parkinson's disease, depression, and autism.

  

  Feng Zhang
  • Learning
  • Depression
  • Memory

• I do a lot of research on the placebo effect, not just in depression but in irritable bowel syndrome, pain, arthritis of the knee, migraine, asthma.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • Pain
  • Depression
  • Research

• In depression, the built-in bunk detector that we all possess is not only turned on but is set on high.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • High
  • Depression

• There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that's really what gives life's true meaning.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Life
  • True
  • Passion

• The money cost of the reservoir plan literally fades into insignificance when it is compared with the financial burden which the great depression imposed on the nation.

  

  Benjamin Graham
  • Great
  • Money
  • Financial

• Compared to America or Europe, God isn't a big part of our lives here. I don't know anyone here who goes to church when he's had a rough divorce or is going through depression. We go out into nature instead.

  

  Bjork
  • God
  • America
  • Nature

• Depression is something I've lived with since I was a teenager.

  

  Billy Howle
  • Teenager
  • Depression

• I've gone through terrible periods of depression. But, at the core of my being, there's a strange, out-of-place optimist. Despite what I'm feeling, I'm always able to get up and do my job. Which means the world to me.

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Up
  • World
  • Job

• I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you're not alone.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Important
  • Alone
  • Depression

• I've had this problem since I was in my 20s. They don't call it manic depression anymore. They call it a bipolar disorder, and I'm a Type 2.

  

  Ned Beatty
  • Depression

• In my shows, I always try to incorporate music because it's the most natural way to set a tone. So if I want to do a show about depression, I use the opera. If I want to do a show about greed, I use spoken word. If I want to do a show about the injustice that's taking place in the world, I might play Sam Cooke.

  

  Kerby Jean-Raymond
  • World
  • Music
  • Depression

• I never planned to be a model at all. I moved to Paris to study art, and I was there working as an artist, taking classes, and I had a little sick dog that I was using up all of my money to try and heal. It was right at that point that this photographer, Errol Sawyer, saw me at the phoning office and convinced me to let him take my photo.

  

  Christie Brinkley
  • Up
  • Money
  • Art

• We wouldn't even be where we are had it not been that 70% of Hispanics voted for President Obama, voted Democratic in the last election. That caused an epiphany in the Senate, that's for sure. So all of a sudden we have already passed comprehensive immigration reform in the Senate. That's a big victory.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Victory
  • Immigration

• I appreciate what others have done in the past especially for my genre, and my style of singing. And they sure put a footprint - you know, they got the foot in the door, but I'm going to put my foot straight through the door.

  

  James Durbin Quiet Riot
  • Done
  • Past
  • Style

• Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Should
  • Repose

• Things like depression and obesity are global challenges.

  

  Jane McGonigal
  • Depression