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
- Always jump in the puddles! Always skip alongside the flowers. The only fights worth fighting are the pillow and food varieties.--Terri Guillemets
- Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.--George F. Will (Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball)
- 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)
- Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and some pure foolishness.--May Sarton
- 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
- For a good life: Work like a dog. Eat like a horse. Think like a fox. And play like a rabbit.--George Allen
- Fun is fundamental, there is no way around it. You absolutely must have fun. Without fun, there is no enthusiasm. Without enthusiasm, there is no energy. Without energy, there are only shades of gray.--Doug Hall (Jump Start Your Brain)
- Go and play. Run around. Build something. Break something. Climb a tree. Get dirty. Get in some trouble. Have some fun.--Brom (The Child Thief)
- Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.--Tom Robbins
- I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.--Leo F. Buscaglia
- 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 bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.--Edward Bellamy (Looking Backward)
- 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 a happy talent to know how to play.--Ralph Waldo Emerson (Journals)
- It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games.--Henry James (The Golden Bowl)
- 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 our brain's favorite way of learning.--Diane Ackerman
- 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
- Recreation is intended to the mind as whetting is to the scythe, to sharpen the edge of it, which otherwise would grow dull and blunt.--Joseph Hall
- Right now we're not going to cut anything back, because the schedules are already set. Sports participation is an important part of the whole educational concept, and if you don't have extracurricular things to do, some kids just don't make it.--Ed Allen
- The secret of winning football games is working more as a team, less as individuals. I play not my eleven best but my best eleven.--Knute Rockne
- 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)
- A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.--Robert Orben
- 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 can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.--Plato
- You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you are doing is work or play.--Warren Beatty
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