Katie Salen Quotes

A game is a system in which players engage in an artificial conflict, defined by rules, that results in a quantifiable outcome.

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• Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Power
  • Help
  • Words

• There was an ingredient used in perfumes and remedies in the Middle Ages called 'momie' that is certainly one of the most fascinating I've come across.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Used
  • Remedies
  • Middle Ages

• Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? It is hard to see how. So, why would a clone be different? Your clone would be raised in a different era by different people - like the lost identical twin, only younger than you.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Different
  • Long

• I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Fear

• I want people to get inspired by public space - their space. People tend to forget about it because they do the daily thing, but putting up these sculptures breaks the routine.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • People
  • Up
  • Space

• My price is five dollars for a miniature on ivory, and I have engaged three or four at that price. My price for profiles is one dollar, and everybody is willing to engage me at that price.

  

  Samuel Morse
  • Price
  • Willing
  • Engage

• You grow and evolve and as you do that, your art hopefully reflects that change and that growth.

  

  Fefe Dobson
  • Art
  • Change
  • Growth

• Education in general, and higher education in particular, is on the brink of a huge disruption. Two big questions, which were once so well-settled that we ceased asking them, are now up for grabs. What should young people be learning? And what sorts of credentials indicate they're ready for the workforce?

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Up
  • Education

• My father was not comfortable working with very articulate people. He and Willie Wyler got along because neither of them was very articulate.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
  • People
  • Father
  • Working

• Forget your opponents; always play against par.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Play
  • Always
  • Forget

• I have always been fascinated by fashion. I never had any interest in waiting tables or bar-tending, so retail was sort of my best option.

  

  Brandon Uranowitz
  • Fashion
  • Waiting
  • Option

• It's like being a bird, maybe, the perspective of flying over the Earth.

  

  Peggy Whitson
  • Earth
  • Perspective
  • Bird

• I am a striker, but I love playing wide.

  

  Anthony Martial

• I've been really lucky. I'll completely forget that I'm a celebrity. And then something will happen, and I'll go, 'Oh, right.'

  

  Matt Damon
  • Celebrity

• It's pretty frustrating waiting for anything.

  

  Drew Pomeranz
  • Pretty
  • Waiting

• I was always drawn to teachers who made class interesting. In high school, I enjoyed my American and English literature classes because my teachers, Jeanne Dorsey and Dani Barton, created an environment where interaction was important.

  

  Ellen Ochoa
  • Important
  • School
  • American

• We believe we've got the skill base and the techniques to supply the chips that really enable the end manufacturers to develop exciting, innovative products themselves.

  

  David Milne
  • Believe

• In my teens, I eyed my adulthood with trepidation, as if stalked by a stranger - one who would seize control as if by demonic possession and regard my fledgling incarnation with contempt.

  

  Lionel Shriver
  • Control

• Modeling is fun, but unless it's runway, it's just not my thing.

  

  Meagan Tandy
  • Fun

• Basically, I really love work that puts the reader into a kind of vertigo, into a real doubt, and a beautiful way to convey that, a really perfect metaphor for that, is to make the reader also experience doubt.

  

  David Shields
  • Work
  • Real
  • Experience

• It's Teach For America's responsibility to ensure that all alumni know their voices are heard and valued, and to surface the range of opinion they represent.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • America
  • Responsibility
  • Opinion

• Well, the truth is I'm very scared for people to dislike me. I have conflict-avoidance.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • People
  • Truth
  • Conflict

• If you're a single man and you happen to be in this business, you're deemed a player. But I don't see myself as a ladies' man.

  

  Bradley Cooper
  • Business
  • Single
  • Player

• A game is a system in which players engage in an artificial conflict, defined by rules, that results in a quantifiable outcome.

  

  Katie Salen
  • Player
  • Games
  • Conflict