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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The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.
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Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.
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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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You want to find out what it is about you or what it is about your past and your lineage that's in you now, and whether you carry those traits and maybe what one's mission is to take it to the next level.
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Giant group events are distorting organisms: You can like and hate them in rapid succession.
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If I have to make a self-portrait, I would put poetry and rebellion on the list. To be able to walk on a wire, to be able to juggle six hoops, you need focus, another word for tenacity, which is passion.
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I do think that despite my best efforts to resist it, I am now a grown-up. It's due to lots of very difficult decisions that you make over a long period of time - about motherhood, wifehood, and work, and all the things that one has to make decisions about.
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Behavioral economists have shown that a sizable percentage of people are willing to pay real money to punish people who are taking from a common pot but not contributing to it. Just to insure that shirkers get what they deserve, we are prepared to make ourselves poorer.
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I don't do 'gamification,' and I'm not prepared to stand up and say, 'I think it works.'
