"I see a future in which games once again are explicitly designed to improve quality of life, to prevent suffering, and to create real, widespread happiness."

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Source : Jane McGonigal (2011). “Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World”, p.16, Penguin

Jane McGonigal

#Real Quotes #Games Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“Faffing, of course, does not fit the programme. We are supposed to be busy, productive citizens.”
“If once a man delays castling and his king remains in the center, files will open up against him, bishops sweep the board, rooks will dominate the seventh rank, and pawns turn into queens.”

Source : Irving Chernev (2014). “The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 masterly games of chess strategy”, p.110, Pavilion Books
“I am very, very anti-slasher.”
“I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the same time I try to capture and translate the excitement and emotion aroused in me by the impact with the original idea.”

Source : Milton Avery, Ruth Fine, M. Knoedler & Co (2007). “Magical means: Milton Avery and watercolor”
“I've always thought that the most powerful weapon in the world was the bomb and that's why I gave it to my people, but I've come to the conclusion that the most powerful weapon in the world is not the bomb but it's the truth”

Source : "Wesley Snipes: The Wisdom of Wesley". Interview with Lawrence Grobel, movieline.com. August 1, 1998.
“When one lover suffered from a broken heart, no matter how badly the other wanted to help, she couldn't be the one to heal it.”
“I use dull colors in my drawings because I started out using a root beer base because it seemed like an interesting idea and when it turned out that it worked quite well as an ink I started using other colors that would compliment it.”
“Animals are not our playthings. We are on this earth to protect them. It's our duty.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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