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Play

see also Work

The ability to play is essential to being a creative artist.--Dewitt Jones
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.--John Bay
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.--Carl Jung
Does it not appear to you versatility is the true and rare characteristic of that rare thing called genius--versatility and playfulness? In my mind they are both essential.--Mary Russell Mitford (in The Life of Mary Russell Mitford by L'Estrange)
Eat with the rich, but go play with the poor, who are capable of joy.--Logan Pearsall Smith
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.--H. G. Wells
If animals play, this is because play is useful in the struggle for survival; because play practices and so perfects the skills needed in adult life.--Susanne Millar
If I get to pick what I want to do, then it's play...if someone else tells me that I have to do it, then it's work.--Patricia Nourot
If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.--Thomas J. Watson, Sr.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.--Bob Hope
If you wish to begin life at forty, you must settle two large personal questions first of all. You must find work and play that call for no more energy than you can afford to spend on them. Then you must train your mind, eye and hand to the point of working and playing with ease, grace and precision.--Walter B. Pitkin
In our play we reveal what kind of people we are.--Ovid (The Art of Love)
It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.--Leo Buscaglia
Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.--Michael Jordan
Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall.--Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.--Heraclitus
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.--Roger von Oech
Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones, the difference is only in the price.--Benjamin Franklin
Our minds need relaxation and give way
Unless we mix with work a little play.--Molier (The School for Husbands)
Play has been man's most useful preoccupation.--Frank Caplan
Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.--Johan Huizinga
Play is the beginning of knowledge.--George Dorsey
Play is the exultation of the possible.--Martin Buber
Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.--Joseph Chilton Pearce
Play keeps us vital and alive. It gives us an enthusiasm for life that is irreplaceable. Without it, life just doesn't taste good.--Lucia Capocchione
Play so that you may be serious.--Anacharsis (Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle)
Playing seems to be both disinterested and passionate at the same time; disinterested in that it is not for real, and passionate in the absorption it requires.--Oliver Bevan
There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.--Bill Watterson (The Calvin and Hobbes Collection)
To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of the content.--George Santayana (The Sense of Beauty)
To the art of working well a civilized race would add that art of playing well.--George Santayana (Little Essays)
The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.--G. K. Chesterton (All Things Considered)
We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing.--Charles Schaefer
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.--George Bernard Shaw
Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play.--Eric Hoffer
Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.--Mark Twain
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.--Mark Twain
The world is your playground. Why aren't you playing?--Ellie Katz
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you are doing is work or play.--Warren Beatty