Jane McGonigal Quotes

A mind should not be so open that the brains fall out; however, it should not be so closed that whatever gray matter which does reside may not be reached.

I would like to suggest that our minds are swamped by too much study and by too much matter just as plants are swamped by too much water or lamps by too much oil; that our minds, held fast and encumbered by so many diverse preoccupations, may well lose the means of struggling free, remaining bowed and bent under the load; except that it is quite otherwise: the more our souls are filled, the more they expand; examples drawn from far-off times show, on the contrary, that great soldiers ad statesmen were also great scholars.

I know there's a lot of pressure, but I'm just going to go out and play my game.

I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.

I am mentally bifocal.

A freewheeling mind can conceive a virtually infinite number of sequences, but just how that mind picks out and stores those that may perhaps be used later to deal with a given tension, a given situation, is far beyond my understanding.

I can easily hold two opposing beliefs at the same time without any problem, which I find - well, mind-expanding, really.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.

Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.

It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both.

My mind tends to operate a bit like a radar. I don't find it hard to switch off.

As children know, there's lots of fun in nonsense. We never stop benefiting from staying flexible, open and responsive, even in the midst of confusion.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for contradictions.

To play with pressure is always a good thing. I like to play with pressure.

I am able to mentally block out mistakes.

People's minds can change very quickly.

I think the open mind is the one that's reachable.

When you have a limited theory of willpower, you're constantly on alert, constantly monitoring yourself. 'Am I tired? Am I hungry? Do I need a break? How am I feeling?' And at the first sign that something is flagging, you think, 'I need a rest or a boost.'

This is probably an asset that my wife hates, where you compartmentalize. Most times, I think it's an asset, where you can just sort of feel like you chop off one part of your brain to do the next thing that you've got to do.

Everyone is a mixture of fixed and growth mindsets. You could have a predominant growth mindset in an area, but there can still be things that trigger you into a fixed mindset trait.

My mind is always free. My mind is flexible.

The quickness and flexibility of a well mind, a belief or hope that things will eventually sort themselves out-these are the resources lost to a person when the brain is ill.

I understand how much everyone wanted to see a British winner at Wimbledon and I hope everyone enjoyed it. I worked so hard in that last game. It's the hardest few points I've had to play in my life. I don't know how I came through the final three points... that last game ... my head was kind of everywhere. That last game will be the toughest game I'll play in my career, ever.

The principal activities of brains are making changes in themselves.