Jane McGonigal Quotes

The Gamifaction Movement is trying to help companies engage their audience and community by using game mechanics and wrapping them around shopping or achievements, so you get achievements for coming to a store or purchasing things, like rewarding activities.

Jane McGonigal

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CommunityShoppingGameHelpYou

In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.

Anita Brookner

LifeTimeWritingWinningGameBusy

Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would have to arise as an integrated unit for natural selection to have anything to act on.

Michael Behe

AnythingSystemActComplexNatural

In the NBA, there is a guy guarding you, and you really have to try shooting over him.

Amar'e Stoudemire

YouTryHimOverShootingGuy

Sales may lead to advertising as much as advertising leads to sales.

Michael Schudson

AdvertisingSalesLeadMayMuch

Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them.

Dionne Warwick

WaitOpportunitiesCreateWillYears

Film actually is a very strange thing - you can fly in, get off the plane, and climb into bed with somebody you've never met - and that's weird!

Sylvester McCoy

ClimbFlyWeirdYouStrangeNever

It doesn't matter how old people are. It matters if they love each other and have fun with each other. It has nothing to do with age. To get old is a mental disease. Everything is in the head.

Nina Hagen

LoveAgeFunPeopleHave FunMatter

Everyone knows that when you look at a television ad, you do not expect to get information. You expect to see delusion and imagery.

Noam Chomsky

YouInformationLookTelevisionSee

I use myself as a template for my comedy. So first my background as a Muslim man, my being a doctor, I talk about my family quite a lot, my kids. Anything that resonates with me I talk about. The important thing is it should be able to work in a family setting.

Riaad Moosa

WorkFamilyMyselfManMeDoctor

They do put my films on TV from time to time. I don't go out of my way to watch them. But I'm now made to tape them for my daughter so that when she's old enough she can say, 'Hey, that's Daddy.'

Mark Lester

DaughterTimeEnoughGoSayWay

I have the right to shine my light! That's what all women have. Once you own that, you can almost always shine your light.

Kimberly Elise

WomenLightShineYouRightAlways

Like most lit nerds, I'm a voracious reader. I never got enough poetry under my belt growing up but I do read it - some of my favorites, Gina Franco and Angela Shaw and Cornelius Eady and Kevin Young, remind me daily that unless the words sing and dance, what's the use of putting them down on paper.

Junot Diaz

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