Jane McGonigal Quotes
I don't do 'gamification,' and I'm not prepared to stand up and say, 'I think it works.'

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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
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Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.
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People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
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At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
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There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'
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I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.
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There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.
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For a spinner growing up in England, it is challenging to become an off-spinner. The line and length needs to be altered on each of the four days of county cricket or five days of Test matches. The pitches in England don't have a set pattern. It changes with each day, and accordingly, the length varies.
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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I will not promote other people's songs big time. I will just mention that I produced the song to get the credit I think I deserve.
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You have to do what makes you feel good, but for me, it has to come from that spiritual side first.
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The road to recovery will not always be easy, but I will take it one day at a time, focusing on the moments I've dreamed about for so long.
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Sergeant Bergdahl may have broken any number of military laws.
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Never mistake activity for achievement.
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There's a child within me. Everything is fascinating. The hunger to learn, do better and more creative things never goes.
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I don't do 'gamification,' and I'm not prepared to stand up and say, 'I think it works.'