Play Quotes

• We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.

  William Shakespeare

  Music, Food, Unrequited Love

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

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• It is easy to work when the soul is at play.

  Emily Dickinson

  Soul, Easy

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.499, Delphi Classics

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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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• Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Love, Life, Happiness

  Henry Van Dyke (2007). “Counsels by the Way”, p.5, Wildside Press LLC

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• We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing

  Charles E. Schaefer

  Fun, Alive, Authenticity

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• In our play we reveal what kind of people we are.

  Ovid

  Sports, People, Kind

  Ovid (1957). “The Loves: The Art of Beauty, The Remedies for Love, and The Art of Love”, p.164, Indiana University Press

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• The creative mind plays with the object it loves.

  Carl Jung

  Love, Happiness, Passion

  Carl Jung (2016). “Psychological Types”, p.152, Routledge

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• Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

  Edward de Bono

  Funny, Wisdom, Humorous

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• Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

  Heraclitus

  Inspirational, Happiness, Children

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• Men should learn to live with the same seriousness with which children play.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, Men, Should

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• Play is your route to mastery.

  Sara Genn

  Mastery, Routes

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• Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Motivational, Yoga

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• In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Happiness, Children, Real

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• To stimulate creativity one must develop childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition.

  Albert Einstein

  Creativity, Humor, Desire

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• The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Fun, Inspirational Life, Garden

  "All Things Considered". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1908.

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• It is better to play than do nothing.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Clever

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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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• 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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• 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

  Playing Games, Special, Function

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• If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

  John Cleese

  Teamwork, Fun, Business

  "Best New Games" by Dale N. LeFevre, (p. 9), 2002.

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• Whoever wants to understand much must play much.

  Gottfried Benn

  Education, Want, Child At Heart

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• Deep meaning lies often in childish play.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Lying, Playing Games, Deep Meaning

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

  Brian Sutton-Smith

  Opposites, Design, Working It

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