Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane McGonigal

Games are work. There are economies popping up in games now because people value them.

Jane McGonigal

Games that make you feel good about yourself are good games to be playing.

Jane McGonigal

We have to accept as a society that games are not escapist. They really do change us.

Jane McGonigal

When you strip away the genre differences and the technological complexities, all games share four defining traits: a goal, rules, a feedback system, and voluntary participation.

Jane McGonigal

The single biggest misconception about games is that they're an escapist waste of time.

Jane McGonigal

There are people who are very dismissive of games and gamers.

Jane McGonigal

I want to see a game designer nominated for a Nobel Prize.

Jane McGonigal

When we're in game worlds, we become the best version of ourselves, the most likely to help at a moment's notice, the most likely to stick with a problem as long at it takes, to get up after failure and try again.

Jane McGonigal

You can't play the same game every day for years. New games are key.

Jane McGonigal

Games are unnecessary obstacles we volunteer to tackle.

Ernest Thompson Seton

All travellers who had preceded me into the Barren Grounds had relied on the abundant game, and in consequence suffered dreadful hardships; in some cases even starved to death.

Ernie Banks

The riches of the game are in the thrills, not the money.

Ernest Cline

As far as my house, I have a ton of video games and three or four old consoles.

Ernest Cline

Video games paid for my house. What am I saying? Go ahead and keep playing!

Jason Giambi

Being patient, feeling comfortable, taking my walks-that's part of my game.

Cassandra Clare

I thought of love as a game. It is not a game. It is more serious than death.

Caroline Wozniacki

There are a lot of things to my game I can still improve, but everyone can.

Carmelo Anthony

No one is perfect. I know there is stuff that I need to work on, and not just one thing, but my game overall. Everything can get better.

Evander Holyfield

The game's been good to me and I hope I've been good to the game. I'm 50 years old and I've pretty much did everything that I wanted to do in boxing.

Christopher Hitchens

I was precocious enough to watch the news and read the papers, and I can remember October 1956, the simultaneous crisis in Hungary and Suez, very well. And getting a sense that the world was dangerous, a sense that the game was up, that the Empire was over.

Jeremy Shockey

Everybody who's ever done anything bad to me, anything that ever went wrong, I try to take it out on somebody-every game. It's like when you see Michael Jordan's highlights and your hair sits up on your arms? I'm like that the whole game.

Glen Sather

If I had the Rangers payroll, I'd never lose a game

Harry Shearer

I was never into candy and games and clowns.

Hank Stram

The receivers are an integral part of the passing game.

Graham Roberts

Every game I played was a bonus.

Graham Nelson

If you're setting a game during the Cuban Missile Crisis, look through a library. find out what people were wearing, what other issues were in the news, how houses were furnished, what cars were being driven. Especially include things which now seem foreign.

Graham Thorpe

I view every game I play for England as it could be my last, so I go out there and enjoy it. It's the only way I can approach it.

Jim Calhoun

The game asks that you work to improve, that you put something into it, and that you also give something back to it. The game is universal. It is a language that unites all of us.

Jesse Ventura

When we build a public library, we don't have to pay to get in, but when we build a stadium, we have to pay the owner every time we go to a game.

Jay Leno

The games haven't even started yet and already there are people complaining about the horrible accommodations at the Sochi Olympic village. Toilets don't flush. The faucets spew discolored water. They say it's like being on a Royal Caribbean cruise.

Murray Gell-Mann

We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game

Miguel Tejada

I don't care what any writer says about me ... I just want to play my game.

Kumail Nanjiani

I never really got into game shows. The easiest one is Wheel Of Fortune because you just have to know words, and for the most part everyone knows words.