Terry Schott > Quotes

“If people knew how powerful books were, they’d all have one in their hand or a tablet loaded full of e-books, just like me!”
― Terry Schott, The Game

“If life is a game, and we forget how to play games... what chance do we have of succeeding?”
― Terry Schott, The Game

“Parents aren’t so different from us kids; they just want some help from us when we can give it. I think kids would have better parents if they were better at being kids.”
― Terry Schott, The Game

“Know that whatever decision you make, it is neither good nor bad. It simply is. All of us experience love, loss, gain, hope, despair, and all the other feelings and emotions. These are the gifts of the universe, although many of them are not perceived as such until time has passed.”
― Terry Schott, Digital Evolution

“If you can watch someone else’s life and be drawn into it, you can escape your own for a time.”
― Terry Schott, The Game

“To feel blessed to have experienced even a brief moment of time with each other, that is the trick of it.”
― Terry Schott, Digital Evolution

“all of our lives would be better if we stopped expecting the world to hand us it’s treasures simply because we asked for them…”
― Terry Schott, The Game

“Earth" is an acronym, which stands for Educational Avatar Reality Training Habitat. A clever, albeit nerdy, description of our intention for the virtual school yard we created for our children.”
― Terry Schott, The Game

“Don't make it so complicated, children. The simplest answer is the answer.”
― Terry Schott, The Game

“it wasn’t as satisfying as he’d imagined. Growing up never is.”
― Terry Schott, The Game

“The extraordinary is simply that—a little bit extra than ordinary. There is great power in that little bit extra.”
― Terry Schott, The Game

“Because sometimes I think it’s more important to search for something than it is to find it.” The old man stopped walking. “What do you mean by that?” Danni stopped and turned to face him.  “I mean that everyone else wants to sit and tell me why it’s pointless to go looking, but the truth is that you’ll never find anything sitting on your arse in a house, making excuses. Most people never try because they fear failure, but the only way to succeed is by failing until you no longer fail.”
― Terry Schott, Virtual Prophet

“Chapter 22 If life is a game, then I've done a poor job of playing it. My time on Earth has been boring and uneventful. I've wasted my youth, sitting around doing nothing when I was full of life and energy. Playing video games, working at simple jobs, trading my time for just enough money to pay the bills and survive; not really learning anything or traveling anywhere.”
― Terry Schott, The Game

“When you encounter the happy, live in that moment for as long as you can. Smile and tuck it away in your memory to be looked at whenever needed. When you encounter the bad, don’t live in the moment. Let it pass as quickly as it can, don’t focus on it, and whatever you do, don’t grab onto it and tuck it away in your memory.”
― Terry Schott, The Game

“Each of us is alone and all together, both at the same time. Our greatest strengths emerge from our most difficult moments of weakness. This is the way of the universe, and you are blessed to experience it.”
― Terry Schott, Digital Evolution

“it doesn’t matter why. That’s just the way it is. If you want to breathe air, then you can’t lay on the bottom of a pond.”
― Terry Schott, The Game

“A person who has their health, freedom, and the ability to do whatever they want usually doesn’t understand how wealthy they really are.”
― Terry Schott, Virtual Prophet

“Life can be full of happiness and full of sadness. One moment you’re on top of the world and nothing can go wrong. The next, it feels as if nothing will ever be right again. I guess it depends where you are right now on your ride through life whether you smile when you read this or fight back tears. No”
― Terry Schott, Digital Heretic

“Trust as much as you can, knowing that the gift of trust will likely be the thing that ends it all for you someday.”
― Terry Schott, The Game

“We as a race have never done well with mysteries; our minds want an explanation for everything. If we can’t rationally explain a curiosity, then, given enough time, most will accept an irrational answer. Science has helped solve many difficult questions throughout our history, but most remain unanswered.”
― Terry Schott, The Game

“Belief is a remarkable thing. If we believe that we can do something, we can. If we believe that we can’t do something, then we can’t. Our belief system limits us, shaping our entire lives, as well as the lives of those around us.”
― Terry Schott, The Game

“Humans are strange creatures, aren’t we? We can believe the unbelievable so easily at times, and doubt the truth just as readily at others.”
― Terry Schott, Digital Heretic

“No matter where you sit on the big roller coaster called life at this moment in time, try very hard to smile, and be glad you’re on the ride.”
― Terry Schott, Digital Heretic

“Don’t save your best effort for later, because later never arrives.” He”
― Terry Schott, Interlude-Brandon

“This game we play is full of contrasts. It has to be. Being warm is much better if you have known what it is to be cold. The light is a welcome break from being surrounded by darkness. Earth is contrast. Nothing is bad nor good; things are just on one end of the spectrum or the other. Some periods in a person’s life are full of confusion, peril, and pain. Other periods are filled with times of clarity, safety and pleasure. I advise you to slow down and enjoy yourself when things are good. It can go on for years, but don’t waste one precious moment of the good times. Because the bad times come, and if you haven’t built up your reserves during the good times, you may not make it through the bad and into the next session of good.”
― Terry Schott, The Game

“have been poor, and I have been rich. I don’t know that either has made me happy, but I preferred being sad and rich over sad and poor.” Knowledge”
― Terry Schott, Digital Heretic

“If I observe myself behave and think a certain way, then I must be the observer and not the one being observed. Who is that?”
― Terry Schott, Digital Evolution

“This is one of the most powerful gifts a person can give to another, focused attention.”
― Terry Schott, The Game

“I have a few friends who still moan that paper is the only way to read a book, but I’d rather have fifty or a hundred novels in a compact tablet than have to worry about lugging around that many books.” “Until the power goes out.” Ivan shrugged. “When that happens, I won’t have time to read.” Loredana”
― Terry Schott, Cyber

“You won’t find me wasting my entire life following someone else’s exploits and adventures. No, I much prefer to participate in my own life here on Tygon.”
― Terry Schott, Digital Heretic