Jane McGonigal Quotes

My parents encouraged thought. You'll get through life better if you learn how to think.

If you are willing to change your thinking, you can change your feelings. If you change your feelings, you can change your actions. And changing your actions - based on good thinking - can change your life.

One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinking

The tools we use have a profound and devious influence on our thinking habits, and therefore on our thinking abilities.

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.

Learning how to learn is the most precious thing we have in life.

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.

Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you're able to think.

Man is multiplied by the number of languages he possesses and speaks.

Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very intelligent, or intelligent and not very intellectual. One hopes, of course, that they try to bring the two virtues, the two elements, into their lives at the same time.

Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned.

Thinking is the ultimate human resource. Yet we can never be satisfied with our most important skill. No matter how good we become, we should always want to be better

Change your way of thinking, change your way of doing, change your way of choosing.

Thought makes everything fit for use.

I think people understand things different when they get older. It’s not a question of getting soft, or seeing things in the gray areas instead of black and white. I really believe I’m just understanding things different. Better.

I think that I am a compulsive person, but now I'm learning to put those compulsions into healthy things.

The fact is that if you have not developed language, you simply don't have access to most of human experience, and if you don't have access to experience, then you're not going to be able to think properly.

What you do makes you better at what you think. What you think makes you more effective at what you do.

I think if people read more, that is a better world.

I think the growth of the brain is a slow process. But you do change and the more you accept change and embrace change, the better.

My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think.

The game is to keep learning, and I don't think people are going to keep learning who don't like the learning process.

Think about these once in awhile, and watch your answers change.

I have full faith in people. I think that we have the ability to change. We're habitual creatures. Once we figure out that bad habit and identify it, whether it's behavioral or whatever it may be, we change our habits. Obviously, I'm simplifying it and making it sound very easy to do, and we all know it's very difficult, but it's doable.

If what we think now is different from what we thought then, we can take it for granted that what we think in a year will be different again.