Jesse Schell Quotes

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

Writing is mentally stimulating; it's like a puzzle that makes you think all the time.

Every boy learns more in his hours of play than in his hours of labor. In school, he lays in the materials of thinking, but in his sports, he actually thinks: he whets his faculties, and he opens his eyes.

I still like to sit in a room and play games all day, so I'm a kid, really.

Have fun. The game is a lot more enjoyable when you're trying to do more than just make money.

When I was a kid, I really liked playing chess, which is pretty geeky; I just enjoyed it - thinking, exercising my mind. And I found computers to be like an eight-hour day chess game.

The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite focuses the mind like dissonant details awaiting harmonious resolution.

It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.

I would play with numbers in a way that other kids would play with their friends.

I want to find material that piques my interest, keeps me outside the box and challenges me.

I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect.

I'll cheerfully confess to spending a lot of time playing completely disgusting computer games that have no redeeming social value.

What makes me happy is just keeping my brain challenged and stimulated and on its toes.

Our whole life is solving puzzles.

If you have a therapist who agrees with your every word, then your brain isn't getting proper exercise.

It's a silly old game.

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

Oh, I still like to play and I still play when I want to.

Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The child's mind must be set free.

Difficulties are always there--they will always be there, and I am glad that there are difficulties, for they excite the imagination and the intellect, and you can then find out the means by which you can solve the problem

I'll bring in UNO, and we'll play that on set.

I like when my mind is being stimulated and challenged, and I'm forced to be creative.

Everyone thinks if they have a problem, the first thing they want to do is play football and enjoy themselves.

I like confusing people and challenging myself.

I love games, and I'll play any. Games are a way of training ourselves to be heavily involved without being serious.