Quotes About Play

It is plainly the case that children repeat everything in their play that has made a powerful impression on them, and that in so doing they abreact the intensity of the ecperience and make themselves so to speak master of the situation.

Je me passerais bien, comme vous pouvez le penser, de toutes ces distractions; c'est si assommant de s'amuser quand on n'en sent à aucun degré le besoin.

The schoolmaster is termed, classically, Ludi Magister, because he deprives boys of their play.

The novelist is like the conductor of an orchestra, his back to the audience, his face invisible, summoning the experience of music for the people he cannot see. The writer as conductor also gets to compose the music and play all of the instruments, a task less formidable than it seems.

Hi. Hi. I shrug, as though to say Whatever. In my peripheral vision I can see Magnus exhale. He looks a teeny bit nervous. So. So. I can play this game too. Poppy. Poppy. I mean, Magnus. I scowl. He caught me out.

It's all a game. And if you don't want to play, maybe you shouldn't come to Hollywood.

Of course, you play the game of life because you got to be incarnated.

Grandchildren are their grandparents' toys.

Life is a game, you live so you play. Follow your dreams and win what your happy heart desires.

On ambition, goal setting and competition - it doesn't matter if you lose, but you can't win if you don't play the game.

Play with your ideals and laugh at the limitations of your mundane life.

Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

Learn well and play well.

Our hearts and imaginations need to dance and play if we are to live awake

You can maximize your child's brain power in plenty of wonderful ways. After breast-feeding, focus on open-ended play, lots of verbal interaction, and praising effort—fertilizers statistically guaranteed to boost your child's intellect from almost any starting point.

Truth: The greatest pediatric brain-boosting technology in the world is probably a plain cardboard box, a fresh box of crayons, and two hours. The worst is probably your new flat-screen TV. (See "Hurray for play!" on page 129.)

And the jocund rebecks soundTo many a youth, and many a maid,Dancing in the checkered shade.And young and old come forth to playOn a sunshine holiday.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

Everybody needs beauty...places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.

Why don't we have a little game? Let's pretend that we're human beings, and that we're actually alive.

play a catalytic role in innovation and decision making—often with dramatic consequences. From the bloody Chicago slaughterhouse

This is what you get for letting rednecks play with antimatter, boss

He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog; so long as you stroke him, and please him, and do not pinch him, he will play with you as finely as may be, he is a very good moral mastiff; but if you hurt him, he will fly in your face, and tear out your throat.

Only through diversity of opinion is there, in the existing state of the human intellect, a chance of fair play to all sides of the truth.