Every game we play activates our brain, and it's the same brain we have in real life as we have in the game.

Gamers always believe that an epic win is possible and that it's always worth trying and trying now.

When we play a game, we tackle tough challenges with more creativity, more determination, more optimism, and we're more likely to reach out to others for help.

Reality is broken and we need to make it work more like a game.

There is no problem that doesn't have some underlying need for more optimism, stamina, resilience and collaboration. And games are, I believe, the best platform we have for providing that.

When we play games, our brains respond differently to stress and obstacles. We're better able to control our attention and ignore distractions.

I didn't accomplish what I set out to do, but I realized I had set out to do the wrong things

What's really amazing about games is how they change our emotional response to challenges

If you can manage to experience three positive emotions for every one negative emotion … you dramatically improve your health and your ability to successfully tackle any problem you're facing.

My goal for the next decade is to try to make it as easy to save the world in real life as it is to save the world in online games.

Compared with games, reality is disconnected.

You can’t colour your world with someone’s paint.

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza. Worry: Something to make you unnecessarily ill.

We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

The child is small, and he includes the man; the brain is narrow, and it harbours thought; the eye is but a point, and it covers leagues

Filmmaking is to me very similar to being in a café somewhere in Paris and looking at the people walking by.

A cell is regarded as the true biological atom.

No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly.

When a man goes into the ring, he's going to war.

The worship of false gods is always an outgrowth of spiritual deception.