Jane McGonigal Quotes

If you make it a game, gamers will play it no matter what your motivation is in making it.

Jane McGonigal

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• You can get all A's and still flunk life.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Life
  • You
  • Still

• We don't really watch basketball in Australia.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Basketball
  • Watch
  • Australia

• I don't say I never use Facebook, but I often think about closing my account.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Think
  • Say
  • Often

• In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • American
  • Die

• She was a great lady. We raised three boys, were together as long as she lived, and now she's passed on.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Great
  • Long
  • She

• My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Interest
  • I Can
  • Product

• I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically on the stereo, my German-American mother fingering 'The Lost Chord' on the piano as golden light sank through trees, my Palestinian father trilling in Arabic in the shower each dawn.

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Up
  • Music
  • American

• When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Marriage
  • Thought
  • Year

• I love pretending to be other people. The more unlike me they are the better - I find other people endlessly fascinating and myself incredibly boring.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • People
  • Better
  • Fascinating

• I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Loved
  • Favourite
  • Fabulous

• Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.

  

  Karl Malone
  • School
  • Start
  • Old

• Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Seriously
  • Reflect

• I wasn't ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Kids
  • You
  • Know

• I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.

  

  Ted Williams
  • People
  • Hope
  • Guy

• I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Independent
  • German
  • Tradition

• During past years, like frightened children, we were afraid to eat the strong meat of human rights and instead sucked the milk of civil rights from the breasts of white liberals, black Uncle Toms, and Aunt Jemimas.

  

  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
  • Children
  • Past
  • Black

• Enjoy every sandwich.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Enjoy
  • Every
  • Sandwich

• I'd love to be on scripted TV shows and movies, but not just one - I want to be in a lot of them! I'd also love to sing and possibly be on Broadway. I want to do it all.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Movies
  • Sing
  • Possibly

• Al Gore, the former vice-president of the United States, lives in a mansion that uses more electricity than the average family's bungalow! David Suzuki rides on a bus that uses more fuel than a Smart car to get across Canada! Oh my God! And this is just the tip of the vanishing iceberg!

  

  Linwood Barclay
  • God
  • Family
  • Car

• Tiger Woods, Larry Bird, Wayne Gretzky, a pitcher just before a game, I would imagine they all have nervous energy. But as you perform, the nervous energy dissipates and you start to relax and you start to do what you do best.

  

  Randy Johnson
  • Game
  • Energy
  • Best

• I wanted to become a college coach. I got game films of all the good college coaches - Pete Newell at California, Eddie Donovan with St. Bonaventure, Ken Loeffler at LaSalle.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Good
  • Game
  • College

• I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, both are asking the same questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The methodologies are diametrically opposed, but their motivation is the same; the wellspring is the same in both cases.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Why
  • Science
  • Religion

• We are all totally committed as elite athletes. To think that pushing people around and bullying them is the best way to get results out of them is just ludicrous.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • Best
  • Bullying

• If you make it a game, gamers will play it no matter what your motivation is in making it.

  

  Jane McGonigal
  • Game
  • motivation