Jane McGonigal Quotes

Compared with games, reality is disconnected.

Jane McGonigal

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• I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Inspiration
  • Movies
  • Video

• I am not a kind of person now who broods over the failures and negatives.

  

  Uday Kiran
  • Person
  • Failures
  • Negatives

• From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • England
  • Only
  • Spoke

• I love to be in the position of not knowing what I'm gonna do, but having rehearsed all of those so when something happens with the others actors I go with whatever that is I'm getting.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Actors
  • Knowing
  • Position

• I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.

  

  Aaliyah
  • People
  • Good
  • Remember

• Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.

  

  Sally Ride
  • American
  • Space
  • Responsibility

• Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Adventure
  • Package

• Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Music
  • God
  • Art

• I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?

  

  Samantha Power
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight, if it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one's fellow travelers.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • American
  • Opportunity
  • Best

• If you are afraid to fail, then you should go and become a banker.

  

  Yossi Vardi
  • You
  • Afraid
  • Become

• If we have white persons in the March, we are certain to have trouble with the Communists, and it may not be viewed as a true expression of the Negro's protest.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • May
  • True
  • Expression

• I don't want to die an old lady.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Want
  • Die
  • Old

• Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • World
  • Music
  • Travel

• Because I see my mum and dad as such amazing friends, I think I'll be a really good dad.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Dad

• Win or lose today I am proud of the way my boys have played in the tournament.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Win
  • Lose
  • Played

• I'm one of the first invention capitalists.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • First
  • Invention

• I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Live
  • Future
  • Past

• Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting, that is the sense of sight, that sees colors and forms as living reality in the picture.

  

  Otto Dix
  • Art
  • Experience
  • Reality

• Maybe it's because I was too much reality, but I'm not interested in seeing too much reality anymore. I'd rather watch a Dean Martin concert and let the world go by.

  

  Dennis Farina
  • World
  • Reality

• Whenever people reach out the hand of friendship towards me, I am not going to refuse that hand.

  

  Martin McGuinness
  • People
  • Hand
  • Friendship

• I certainly could've gone off track many, many times in my youth.

  

  Shania Twain

• I guess, really thinking about it, I always assumed when you missed someone , it was tangible...something real you could grab and hold on to, but it's a not-there feeling.

  

  Norma Fox Mazer
  • Think
  • Feeling
  • Tangible

• Compared with games, reality is disconnected.

  

  Jane McGonigal
  • Reality