Jane McGonigal Quotes

There's no reason why the 'Lost' alternate reality game had to be officially made by the 'Lost' production crew.

Jane McGonigal

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• I'm very heterosexual, so dating women is something I'm not ashamed of. But my love life is not as exciting as it is reported to be.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Life
  • Love
  • Exciting

• I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Time
  • Society
  • Community

• With Nine Inch Nails, it's all Trent Reznor. So when we get a new record from Nine Inch Nails, it depends on what side of the bed Trent's waking up on and what he's been eating lately and what he's been into. Because he's preparing the whole meal.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Up
  • New
  • Eating

• Beware of the naked man who offers you his shirt.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Man
  • You
  • Naked

• I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • True
  • Help
  • Military

• I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write in the morning until midday, and in the afternoon, I eat.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Walk

• Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Style

• My parents were perfectly open-minded about everything. They never tried to convince us of what was true or what wasn't true in their minds. We were just presented with the information that was around and pretty much allowed - though, I mean, we knew how they felt. We knew they didn't go to church. So obviously that had an effect.

  

  Tad Williams
  • True
  • Pretty
  • Parents

• I like to say it's an attitude of not just thinking outside the box, but not even seeing the box.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Thinking
  • Attitude
  • Box

• The sooner you learn to finish things, and as a matter of course finish your creative endeavors, the better. It took me a long time to learn that.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Time
  • Long
  • Creative

• There's this tendency to be like, 'Where's the negative stuff? How valid is the criticism?' But honestly, what people think of me is none of my business. If I live on the Internet looking for public approval, I'm going to be miserable.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • People
  • Live
  • Business

• A friend of mine had this great theory about the Teletubbies, that it's preparing us for being mindless. And getting us ready for living in an underground world. That's why the scenery is so flat.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • World
  • Great
  • Why

• If someone comes up to me, 90 percent of the time it's about Office Space.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Time
  • Space
  • Office

• Places are extremely important when writing a long story because place shapes a character.

  

  Tabitha King
  • Important
  • Long
  • Writing

• My wife will automatically quote and compare the price of diesel at every petrol station we drive by, like she's got oil-based Tourette's.

  

  Ian Watson
  • She
  • Wife
  • Drive

• To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Man
  • First
  • Principles

• I can't really put it in one sentence because although on one hand Preacher is about faith and yes it is also about, I suppose, the search for God, the search for faith and the manipulation and the abuse committed by figures in whom I suppose people have faith.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • People
  • God
  • Faith

• I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it's all make-believe.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Music
  • Believe

• John Coltrane is still probably one of the greatest musicians of this century. His tone truly puts demons on a leash. His gift is directly from the mind of God and is very powerful. ..... The first time I heard a Love Supreme, it was really an assault. It could've been from mars as far as i was concerned, or another galaxy. I remember the album cover and the name, but the music didn't fit into the patterns of my brain at that point. It was like someone trying to tell a monkey about spirituality or computers, you know, it just didn't compute.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Gift
  • Musicians
  • Computers

• A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Book
  • Written
  • Poem

• The year 2014 was a big year for my taste buds. They really stepped up their game. Like, I got into red wine, coffee and sushi for the first time. Well done, George.

  

  George Ezra
  • Up
  • Time
  • Done

• I swim three times a week.

  

  Ken Livingstone

• I believe every artiste, at some point, needs to take a step back.

  

  Adnan Sami
  • Believe

• There's no reason why the 'Lost' alternate reality game had to be officially made by the 'Lost' production crew.

  

  Jane McGonigal
  • Why
  • Game
  • Reality