Play Quotes - Page 2

• When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Work, Play Hard, Advice

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.73, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.40, Delta

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• Deep meaning lies often in childish play.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Lying, Playing Games, Deep Meaning

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• Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning...They have to play with what they know to be true in order to find out more, and then they can use what they learn in new forms of play.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Order, Practice

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• The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.

  Sigmund Freud

  Children, Creative, World

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• Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Guitar, Self

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• It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Children, Playing Games, Serious

  Essais bk. 1, ch. 23 (1580)

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• I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Running, Nature, Wind

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• Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 2)”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

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• Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

  Carl Jung

  Creativity, Imagination, Creative

  Carl Jung (2016). “Psychological Types”, p.88, Routledge

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• All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy - and Jill a wealthy widow.

  Evan Esar

  Funny, Work, Sarcasm

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• You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Inspirational, Determination, Work

  "Mindfulness" edited by Ellen J. Langer, (p. 133), 1989.

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• Very often the effort men put into activities that seem completely useless turns out to be extremely important in ways no one could foresee. Play has always been the mainspring of culture.

  Italo Calvino

  Men, Playing Games, Effort

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• The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Ideas, Quality

  "The Play of Ideas". New Statesman, May 6, 1950.

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• The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery.

  Erik Erikson

  Children, Reality, Playing Outside

  Erik H. Erikson (1993). “Childhood and Society”, p.222, W. W. Norton & Company

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• A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.

  Pablo Neruda

  Children, Men, Forever

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• Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

  Mark Twain

  Motivational, Work, Yoga

  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ch. 2 (1876)

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• Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Dream, Lying, Meaning Of Life

  "Theklo", Stanza 6, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 109-113, 1922.

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• Laughter is a holy thing. It is as sacred as music and silence
  and solemnity, maybe more sacred. Laughter is like a prayer, like
  a bridge over which creatures tiptoe to meet each other. Laughter
  is like mercy; it heals. When you can laugh at yourself, you are
  free.

  Ted Loder

  Laughter, Prayer, Fun

  Ted Loder (2004). “Tracks in the Straw: Tales Spun from the Manger”, p.73, Augsburg Books

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• I play with microbes. There are, of course, many rules to this play...but when you have acquired knowledge and experience it is very pleasant to break the rules and to be able to find something nobody has thought of.

  Alexander Fleming

  Playing Games, Able, Break

  Beverley Birch, Alexander Fleming (2002). “Alexander Fleming: Pioneer with Antibiotics”, Blackbirch PressInc

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• And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.58, Lulu.com

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• The opposite of play is not work. It's depression.

  Brian Sutton-Smith

  Opposites, Design, Working It

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• The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.

  James A. Michener

  Love, Inspirational, Inspiring

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  What we play is life.

  Louis Armstrong

  Music, Inspirational Life, Live Life

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