John Quotes

I still like to play games that have a beginning, an end and a story.

I think the reason that I like so many different games is because I like the way my brain works when I'm playing games. It's more fun.

It is very important to lead the field and innovate in game design.

We are at the point where game designers have become celebrities due to the size of the market they serve.

You have to design and program differently. Combat action in an MMO is so different to combat in a first-person shooter.

I've gone on record to say that I'm proud of the PC version of Daikatana and I stand behind that.

The game-playing market today is pretty sizable.

What I didn't foresee in 2005 was the rise of the post-PC, which are all these tablets now. These are the things that actually will probably be the end of the consoles.

I live way out in the country, in truck-country.

Hey, over the years you learn to forget things.

Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only authentic folk art of the twentieth century.

Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think.

If the thing is impossible, you need not trouble yourselves about it; if possible, try for it.

You do not see with the lens of the eye. You seen through that, and by means of that, but you see with the soul of the eye.

Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.

Whenever you see want or misery or degradation in this world about you, then be sure either industry has been wanting, or industry has been in error.

Do justice to your brother (you can do that, whether you love him or not), and you will come to love him. But do injustice to him because you don't love him, and you will come to hate him.

Ship of the line is the most honourable thing that man, as a gregarious animal, has ever produced.

Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.

Hope- the recognition, by true foresight, of better things to be reached here after.

A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness full of fools.

That man is always happy who is in the presence of something which he cannot know to the full, which he is always going on to know.

All you have really to do is to keep your back as straight as you can; and not think about what is upon it. The real and essential meaning of "virtue" is that straightness of back.

Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it.

I desire ... to leave this one great fact clearly stated. THERE IS NO WEALTH BUT LIFE.

Do not think it wasted time to submit yourselves to any influence which may bring upon you any noble feeling.

All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.

Whenever I did anything wrong, stupid or hard-hearted, and I have done many things that were all three, my mother always said "it is because you were too much indulged."

At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but in what we agree with them.

One of the worst diseases to which the human creature is liable is its disease of thinking.

The man who says to one, go, and he goeth, and to another, come, and he cometh, has, in most cases, more sense of restraint and difficulty than the man who obeys him.

Order and system are nobler things than power.

The only absolutely and unapproachably heroic element in the soldier's work seems to be-that he is paid little for it-and regularly.

The art of nations is to be accumulative, just as science and history are; the work of living men not superseding, but building itself upon the work of the past.

In painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter your manner.

I am far more provoked at being thought foolish by foolish people, than pleased at being thought sensible by sensible people; and the average proportion of the numbers of each is not to my advantage.

Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime.

The artist's business is to feel, although he may think a little sometimes... when he has nothing better to do.

Without mountains the air could not be purified, nor the flowing of the rivers sustained.

Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth.

When God shuts a door, He opens a window.

It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

Disorder in a drawing-room is vulgar; in an antiquary's study, not; the black battle-stain on a soldier's face is not vulgar, but the dirty face of a housemaid is.

You may sell your work, but not your soul.

Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie.

In order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

See that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it.

Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.

That which seems to be wealth may in verity be only the gilded index of far reaching ruin

Science lives only in quiet places, and with odd people, mostly poor.