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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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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Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.
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Touch a man who can't walk up right, and that lame man, he's gonna fly.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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The only routine I have is that I finish everything I start. I wake up early every day - about 6.30 A.M. - but I do not work every day. I could laze for a day or two, but I wouldn't do it for three.
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That was more than a mistake. That was done purposely. OK? That was not a mistake. That was done purposely. When you have your staff taking the Fifth Amendment, taking the Fifth so they're not prosecuted, when you have the man that set up the illegal server taking the Fifth, I think it's disgraceful.
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I don't do 'gamification,' and I'm not prepared to stand up and say, 'I think it works.'
