Jane McGonigal Quotes
For most people, an hour a day playing our favorite games will power up our ability to engage whole-heartedly with difficult challenges, strengthen our relationships with the people we care about most - while still letting us notice when it's time to stop playing in virtual worlds and bring our gamer strengths back to real life.
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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.
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I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to tread so carefully and can feel a little bit more creative freedom.
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I think that role model is kind of a weird thing because obviously you are, but I try to make good choices and good decisions for myself for me to have a good life. If that inspires someone else, that is great, but I think you should do good for yourself and your own happiness.
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For economist the real world is often a special case.
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I don't wanna be preached to. Unless it's in a beautiful voice, I don't want that.
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When you start to live your dream, it's not quite what you thought it was because there is a lot of overwhelming stuff that comes on top of it, and you have to figure it all out.
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Evil report carries further than any applause.
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Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.
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Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the story in whatever country with whatever language in whatever style you want to tell the story in.
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There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage.
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Petty laws breed great crimes.
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All cultures through all time have constantly been engaged in a dance with new possibilities for life. Change is the one constant in human history.
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People call me a hermit. But I'm happy.
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I get to know my regular fans, and they inspire me.
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In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.
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Asthma doesn't affect me, even though I have it. It can seem like it wants to act up a little if I'm nervous before going on stage, but that's natural to many performers. If I think it's going to be a problem, I just reach for my inhaler.
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Look at what is happening in China and in Russia. They have units that are specifically targeted cyber warfare. They are carrying it out. Our critical infrastructure is attacked thousands of times a day.
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I just don't believe that being conservative means all you do is throw stones and poke people in the eye.
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For the most part, I feel really comfortable with what I've given to the people. I want to give it to them again.
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Some people may have their doubts about me. But I feel like there's no shot too hard for me to take.
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I will not have the power of nonviolence to be underestimated in order to cover my limitations or weaknesses.
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For most people, an hour a day playing our favorite games will power up our ability to engage whole-heartedly with difficult challenges, strengthen our relationships with the people we care about most - while still letting us notice when it's time to stop playing in virtual worlds and bring our gamer strengths back to real life.
