“Ultimately, all I wanted was for players to feel like they were in the real world. I wanted them to be able to apply real world common sense to the problems confronting them, and I thought recreating real world locations would encourage that kind of thinking. There's also just a real power, a real thrill, when you fire up a game and see a place you've been or want to go, and then get to do all the stuff you WANT to do there but know you'll get arrested if you try! If that isn't the stuff of fantasy - far more than exploring some goofy dwarven mine or alien spaceship - I don't know what is!” IfsThinkingKnowsWorldWantFeelsTryingKindRealProblemAbleWantedGamesStuffCommonFantasyFirePlayerMinesCommon SenseAliensReal WorldExploringLocationThrillArrestedSpaceshipsConfrontingGoofyReal Power Author:Warren Spector
“The notion that only those who preach the gospel of integrated medicine are able to perform the art of medicine is as ridiculous as it is insulting to everyone in healthcare who does his/her best to meet the needs of their patients. The assumption that unproven or disproven treatments become acceptable simply because they are often administered in a kind and caring fashion is quite simply not true.” NeedsKindDoeArtAblePainFashionMedicineNotionPatientCaringRidiculousTherapyAssumptionInjuryTreatmentHealthcareAcceptableInsultingIntegrated Author:Edzard Ernst
“As President, I was able to save with the stroke of the pen a hundred million acres of wilderness area in Alaska. This is the kind of thing that is is gratifying to a President, but to be on a solitary stream with good friends, with a fly rod in your hand, and to have a successfull or even an unsuccessful day-they're all successful-is an even greater delight.” KindHandsAblePresidentMillionsSuccessfulGreaterSeaHundredAreasRiversFishesDelightBoatStreamsLakesFishingWildernessPensSolitaryGood FriendStrokesAlaskaAcresUnsuccessful Author:Jimmy Carter
“This was one of the greatest test of his faith he had ever experienced. The thought of deceiving the kind and faithful wife of his youth... was more than he felt able to bear.... his sorrow and misery were increased by the thought of my mother hearing it from some other source, which would no doubt separate them, and he shrank from the thought of such a thing, or of causing her any unhappiness.” KindAbleMotherFeltDoubtWifeYouthSourceBearsSorrowTestsMiseryHearingFaithfulNo DoubtUnhappinessDeceivingPolygamyFaithful Wife Author:Orson F. Whitney
“I don't particularly like to go see 3D movies, but when I'm doing it I kind of do enjoy it. I enjoy seeing the image in 3D, there's a childhood fun about being able to see those dimensions.” KindAbleFunEnjoySeeingChildhoodDimensions Author:Bryan Singer
“Attention spans are shrinking on a daily basis, and it's getting harder to make an impression that lasts. So the fact that we were able to make a mark in a way that led to the continued relevance of the record is kind of crazy. I'm in awe of that.” WayKindFactsAbleLastsAttentionRecordsCrazyBasesHarderMarkImpressionAweRelevanceShrinkingAttention Span Author:Sam Fogarino
“I've been able to write at least one book a year for 20 years, and I don't think I would've had that kind of drive if I hadn't come out of the journalism business.” IfsThinkingWritingYearsKindBookAbleJournalism Author:Michael Connelly
“My parents were pretty open about a lot of things, especially my mom. And any kind of little crazy thing I was into, she was very supportive of. You know, whether it was BMX bike racing or being in the Boy Scouts or surfing or anything else, she always seemed to sort of support it. And I think it's because she was an immigrant and that idea of sort of having her kids be able to have access to their dreams and whatever they wanted to follow was very important to her.” ThinkingKnowsKindLittlesImportantIdeasDreamKidsAbleWantedParentBoysSupportCrazyMomMy MomAccessImmigrantsRacingBikeSupportiveSurfingCrazy ThingsBoy ScoutBmx Author:Terry Gross
“Cunning has only private selfish aims, and sticks at nothing which may make them succeed. Discretion has large and extended views, and, like a well-formed eye, commands a whole horizon; cunning is a kind of shortsightedness, that discovers the minutest objects which are near at hand, but is not able to discern things at a distance.” WellsKindMayWholeHandsEyeAbleViewsObjectsSucceedAimDistanceSticksSelfishCommandHorizonCunningDiscretion Book:The spectator Source: The spectator
“I am interested in what happens to people who find the whole of life so rewarding that they are able to move through it with the same kind of delight in which a child moves through a game.” PeopleKindChildrenWholeHappensAbleMovingGamesDelight Author:Margaret Mead
“We human beings cause monstrous conditions, but precisely because we cause them we soon learn to adapt ourselves to them. Only if we become such that we can no longer adapt ourselves, only if, deep inside, we rebel against every kind of evil, will we be able to put a stop to it. ... while everything within us does not yet scream out in protest, so long will we find ways of adapting ourselves, and the horrors will continue.” IfsWayHumansKindLongDoeAbleEvilCausesHuman BeingsConditionsHorrorProtestRebelScreamMonstrousDeep InsideAdapting Book:Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943 Source: Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943
“I love research and being educated. It's a great job being able to step into all kinds of professions and into other people's shoes.” PeopleKindAbleJobsStepsResearchShoesProfessionAll KindsEducatedGreat Job Author:Denzel Washington
“I had never been able to believe that God would give us poor frail humans only one chance at making it -- that we would be assigned to some kind of hell because we failed during one experience of mortal life. ... So the concepts of karma and reincarnation made logical sense to me.” GivingBelieveHumansKindMadeWould BeAbleChancePoorHellConceptsKarmaMortalsLogicalReincarnationFrailOne Chance Author:Jane Goodall
“almost all American writers tend to overwrite, to tell too much. I get the disillusioned feeling that novels, today, are sold by the pound, like groceries. It actually takes a great deal more discipline to be able to leave out rather than to throw in everything. This means that you have to say in one sentence precisely what you mean, instead of saying sort of what you kind of mean in hundreds of sentences and hoping the sum total will add up.” KindMeanFeelingsTodayAbleDealsNovelToo MuchDisciplineAddSentencesPoundsGroceriesDisillusionedOne SentenceAmerican Writer Author:Rona Jaffe
“I thank God that my body has been able to handle this kind of workload. I don't know if I will ever be like Lorenzo White, but that's the goal I'm trying to get to.” IfsKnowsTryingKindHas BeensBodyAbleGoalWhiteHandleThank GodWorkload Author:Javon Ringer
“We are able to speak for ourselves through our music rather than being defined and put into the spotlight in a very male kind of groomed way for an obviously predominantly male audience.” WayKindAbleSpeakAudienceMalesDefinedSpotlight Author:Shingai Shoniwa