Playfulness Quotes - Page 2

• There's a certain pleasure of the life of the mind that cannot be denied. There's a certain pleasure about being around people who enact a playfulness when it comes to the world of ideas.

  Cornel West

  Ideas, People, Mind

  Source: genius.com

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• I teach you joy, not sadness. I teach you playfulness, not seriousness. I teach you love and laughter, because to me there is nothing more sacred than love and laughter, and there is nothing more prayerful than playfulness. I don't teach you renunciation, as it has been taught down the ages. I teach you: Rejoice, rejoice, and rejoice again! Rejoicing should be the essential core of my sannyasins.

  Rajneesh

  Laughter, Sadness, Joy

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• Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.

  Tom Robbins

  Mean, Evil, Survival

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• Last year, [Pope Francis] was asked about his secret to happiness. He said slow down. Take time off. Live and let live. Don't proselytize. Work for peace. Work at a job that offers basic human dignity. Don't hold on to negative feelings. Move calmly through life. Enjoy art, books and playfulness.

  Timothy Egan

  Art, Jobs, Moving

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• Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied children.

  Keith Johnstone

  Teacher, Children, Teaching

  Keith Johnstone (1981). “Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre”, p.78, Routledge

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• The playfulness that I talk about comes very slowly. You cannot just jump out of your seriousness which you have accumulated for lives. Now it has a force of its own. It is not a simple matter to relax; it is one of the most complex phenomena possible, because all that we are taught is tension, anxiety, anguish. Seriousness is the very core the society is built around. Playfulness is for small children, not for grown-up people. And I am teaching you to be children again, to be playful again. It is a quantum leap, a jump...but it takes time to understand.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Teaching, Simple

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• The thing that hasn't changed, and I don't think will ever change, is that the operative word in music is "play." You have to have a playfulness about it. As the world shifts, it's starting to understand more and more that to have a playfulness about any and everything is actually the way of having a better life, or being more creative, or being more productive.

  Hans Zimmer

  Fun, Thinking, Play

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• Trust allows you to give, Giving is abundant.
  Trust allows the experience of bliss. Bliss is awakefulness.
  Trust allows you to laugh. Laugh at the richness, the beauty and
  the playfulness of the universe.
  Apply consciousness to this process and all roads will lead to home.

  Gary Zukav

  Beauty, Laughter, Home

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• Parents and educators need to establish a culture in which security and clarity of expectations are balanced with the encouragement of playfulness, inquisitiveness and self reliance.

  Guy Claxton

  Encouragement, Teaching, Self

  Guy Claxton (2001). “Wise Up”, p.340, A&C Black

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• As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.

  Felicity Jones

  Growing Up, Children, Character

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• Despite what you've been conditioned to believe, sexual desire is sacred and virtuous. When you and your beloved merge physically and emotionally, you go beyond the boundaries of the ego and experience timelessness, naturalness, playfulness and defenselessness .

  Deepak Chopra

  Believe, Ego, Desire

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• I think there's a playfulness and a distance to Kavalier and Clay that I don't aspire to in my stuff. Maybe I'm more old-fashioned, and less of a fabulist, in that way.

  Jim Shepard

  Distance, Thinking, Clay

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It is hard to write a simple definition of something as varied as hacking, but I think what these activities have in common is playfulness, cleverness, and exploration. Thus, hacking means exploring the limits of what is possible, in a spirit of playful cleverness. Activities that display playful cleverness have "hack value".

  Richard Stallman

  Writing, Mean, Simple

  "On Hacking". stallman.org. 2002.

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• Seriousness is a sickness... Existense is pure playfulness

  Rajneesh

  Sickness, Seriousness, Pure

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• To me there is nothing more sacred than love and laughter, and there is nothing more prayerful than playfulness. When you are in love, all fears disappear, and when you become love yourself, even death becomes irrelevant. Jesus is not very far away from the truth when he says, "God is love." Certainly God is power, the greatest power. I want to improve upon Jesus: I don't say God is love, I say love is God. To me God is only a symbol and love is a reality. God is only a myth - love is the experience of millions of people. God is only a word, but love can become a dance in your heart.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Jesus, Laughter

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• It did not look like the work of God, but it might have represented the handicraft of a God with a joyous sense of humor, a dancing God who loved mischief as much as prayer, and playfulness as much as mischief.

  Pat Conroy

  Prayer, Dancing, Looks

  Pat Conroy (2010). “South of Broad”, p.202, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• My whole effort here is to keep you as non-serious as possible, for the simple reason that meditation, all kinds of meditation, can make you too serious and that seriousness will create a spiritual disease and nothing else. Unless a meditation brings you more laughter, more joy, more playfulness, avoid it. It is not for you.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Laughter, Simple

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• Every one of the geezers who continues to play a leadership role has one quality of overriding importance: neotony. The dictionary definition is that neotony, a zoological term, involves "the retention of youthful qualities throughout old age." It is more than merely retaining a youthful appearance, although that is often part of it. Neotony is the retention of all those wonderful qualities that we associate with youth: curiosity, playfulness, eagerness, fearlessness, warmth, energy.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Play, Curiosity, Age

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Many people know how to work hard; many others know how to play well; but the rarest talent in the world is the ability to introduce elements of playfulness into work, and to put some constructive labor into our leisure.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Hard Work, Play, People

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• In using the terms play and playfulness, I do not intend to suggest any lack of seriousness; quite the contrary. Anyone who has watched children, or adults, at play will recognize that there is no contradiction between play and seriousness, and that some forms of play induce a measure of grave concentration not so readily called forth by work.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Children, Play, Adults

  Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.30, Vintage

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• I think at the end of the day she [Rose from "Fences"] is a strong woman in the truest sense of the word. I think all of that is in the narrative; it's already there. The hope is there; the playfulness is there; it's there. I wish I could take credit for it, but it's there.

  Viola Davis

  Strong Women, Thinking, Rose

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• A person who makes full use of and exploits his talents, potentialities, and capacities. Such a person seems to be fulfilling himself and doing the best he is capable of doing. The self-actualized person must find in his life those qualities that make his living rich and rewarding. He must find meaningfulness, self-sufficiency, effortlessness, playfulness, richness, simplicity, completion, necessity, perfection, individuality, beauty, and truth.

  Abraham Maslow

  Self, Perfection, Simplicity

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• A man of knowing attains to a sense of humour. Let this always be remembered. If you see someone who has no sense of humour, know well that that man has not known at all. If you come across a serious man, then you can be certain that he is a pretender. Knowing brings sincerity but all seriousness disappears. Knowing brings a playfulness; knowing brings a sense of humour. The sense of humour is a must.

  Rajneesh

  Men, Knowing, Serious Man

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• Camp is a solvent of morality. It neutralizes moral indignation, sponsors playfulness.

  Susan Sontag

  Morality, Sponsors, Moral Indignation

  Susan Sontag (2014). “A Susan Sontag Reader”, p.177, Macmillan

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• Millions of people miss meditation because meditation has taken on a wrong connotation. It looks very serious, looks gloomy, has something of the church in it, looks as if it is only for people who are dead, or almost dead, who are gloomy, serious, have long faces, who have lost festivity, fun, playfulness, celebration.... A really meditative person is playful: life is fun for him.... He enjoys it tremendously. He is not serious. He is relaxed.

  Rajneesh

  Fun, Taken, People

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