“…I don’t think anybody should make games to try to motivate somebody to do something they don’t want to do. If the game is not about a goal you’re intrinsically motivated by, it won’t work.”
~Jane McGonigal; american game designer and author.
“Follow your heart but take your brain with you.”
~Alfred Adler; austrian physician and psychotherapist.
“If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life – and only then will I be free to become myself.”
~Martin Heidigger; german philosopher and author.
‘no regard for the lives tossed aside because once we attain the top of a
heap of reaping what we have sown it is done, and no one will be able to
disparage the path taken to get to that point in the road especially as
we cycle through so many given variables orders to repeat the experiment
to verify the absolute proof to which we can comfortably label in words
absolutely as the truth… a wrench to stop the works of all the monkeys
collected at thousands of typewriters to achieve what only time and luck
allow us to achieve in the forms of a nuclear bomb or freed electricity
to decimate the consumers consummating their wedded bliss to technocrat
leisure class conservation of motion and energy, guerrilla warfare of the
most connected and captivated’…out of Context.
“The work of this emotion requires people who throw themselves actively into what is becoming, to which they themselves belong.”
~Ernst Bloch; german philosopher.
“The mythology is that from chaos comes great work. I actually used to think that when I was younger, and I no longer think that anymore.”
~Sarah Paulson; american actress.
“Suppose you had the revolution you are talking and dreaming about. Suppose your side won, and you had the kind of society you wanted. How would you live, you personally, in that society? Start living that way now!”
~Paul Goodman; american author and public intellectual.
“I used to want to be a war photographer, and I used to want to be a ballerina and a comedian. I used to want to be a writer. I invalidated myself; it’s a mistake for me.”
~Chan Marshall “Cat Power”; american singer-songwriter and musician.
“Memory produces hope in the same way amnesia produces despair.”
~Walter Brueggeman; american scholar and theologian.
“The exercise of democracy begins as exercise, as walking around, becoming familiar with the streets, comfortable with strangers, able to imagine your own body as powerful and expressive rather than a pawn.”
~Rebecca Solnit; american author.