"A game is an opportunity to focus our energy, with relentless optimism, at something weâ€™re good at (or getting better at) and enjoy. In other words, gameplay is the direct emotional opposite of depression."

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Source : Jane McGonigal (2011). “Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World”, p.30, Penguin

Jane McGonigal

#Opportunity Quotes #Emotional Quotes #Opposites Quotes

“It's really grinding to always play out of both sides of your mind and always be thinking what will offend people. Or what won't. But I'm strong enough to deal with that. I own that I'm freakish in my way.”
“It's hard to make something that's interesting. It's really, really hard. It's like a law of nature, a law of aerodynamics, that anything that's written or anything that's created wants to be mediocre. The natural state of all writing is mediocrity... So what it takes to make anything more than mediocre is such an act of will...”
“People tend to find books when they are ready for them.”
“I think that Shakespeare had his male side and his female side extremely well developed. And this was a great quality of the Elizabethan, all-around Renaissance man. They were not afraid of their male side and their female side co-existing. This somewhere along the line got lost. And then it got misunderstood.”
“Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me.”
“Itâ€™s a very weird thing being a photographer.”
“You can tell a lot about what a man lacks by watching what he is cynical about, and many of us are cynical about love.”
“In my first few years as an actor, I took one terrible TV job after another. But even as I laughed off my awful roles and made fun of myself to friends, my work made me cringe - I dreaded anyone's seeing it. I was crushed that I wasn't doing anything I was proud of.”

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