Quotes About Play

You have to enjoy the game. I enjoy everything about life.

There's theater in life, obviously, and there's life in theater.

Happiness is not something that happens to people but something that they make happen." His research shows that people are happiest in a state he has named "flow." In a state of flow, you are one with what you are doing. Children know flow well. They call it play. Play is one of the childhood roots of adult happiness. But there are others—four others, to be exact—in the schema I outline in this book.

Still, the fact that blackjack could be beaten led to an upsurge in play.

On New Year's Eve 1777, after performing in a play entitled The Devil to Pay in the West Indies, a party of drunken officers—one dressed up like Old Nick himself, complete with horns and tail—disrupted services at the John Street Methodist Church. Nor was that the worst of it. "I could narrate many and very frightful occurrences of theft, fraud, robbery, and murder by the English soldiers which their love of drink excited," said one dismayed German officer.

there is the Wall Street fool, who thinks he must trade all the time. No man can always have adequate reasons for buying or selling stocks daily—or sufficient knowledge to make his play an intelligent play. I proved it.

No more monkeys jumping on the bed!

What was romance but a lovely bit of play between man and woman?

But for you, work is play. Not to work would be work.

The ideal personality is embodied, in Mead's words, in "every thread of the social fabric–in the care of the young child, the games the children play, the songs the people sing, the political organization, the religious observance, the art and the philosophy." Other traits are ignored, discouraged, or if all else fails, ridiculed. What is the ideal in our culture?

Into the mud puddle!

It'll be just lovely for you to play -- it'll be so hard. And there's so much more fun when it is hard!

THE GREATEST GIVE YOU CAN GIVE A CHILD IS AN IMAGINATION

the thing we call French culture may be due to the fact that French children can play, surrounded by the things of the past, palaces of bygone kings, statues, remembrances of history.

I've known how to whistle since I was five years old.

La nuova carne viva ripeteva la vecchia per gioco, eravamo una catena di ombre che andava da sempre in scena con la stessa carica di amore, di odio, di voglie e di violenza.

C'era qualcosa di insostenibile nelle cose, nelle persone, nelle palazzine, nelle strade, che solo reinventando tutto come in un gioco diventava accettabile. L'essenziale, però, era saper giocare io e lei, io e lei soltanto, sapevamo farlo.

Ano, sta?ilo zatáhnout za nit, aby si ?lovÄ›k mohl dál hrát se záhadnou postavou mojí mámy, tu ji obohatit, tu ji ponížit. Ale uvÄ›domila jsem si, že už necítím potÃ…â"¢ebu to dÄ›lat, a pohnula jsem se v paprsku svÄ›tla pÃ…â"¢esnÄ› tak, jak se mi vždycky zdálo, že se pohybuje ona.

There was something unbearable in the things, in the people, in the buildings, in the streets that, only if you reinvented it all, as in a game, became acceptable. The essential, however, was to know how to play, and she and I, only she and I, knew how to do it.

A lifetime is not so many years for a person to play with.

She only wants to be an instrument on which she will teach him to play.

In America, childhood was a time to play and be innocent, to not have to make money or do anything that counted for anything.

It is intellectually and spiritually incoherent to believe in the innocent play of children when you are willing to sacrifice them upon the altar of your ambition, your avarice, your lusts, or your convenience. You cannot suppress the reality of the child without amputating your humanity and searing the wound with bitumen and pitch. The

Jung's gift for transcending the confines of his own consciousness began, as we have seen, in the fantasy games of his childhood.