Quotes About Play

[Sometimes] I sit in front of my [gaming] console with my headphones on and I play. I love that. It's a nice form of escapism.

I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.

You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play. It's the playing that's irresistible. Dicing from one year to the next with the things you love, what you risk reveals what you value.

With my family, my sons both love music and play music, and they're really good at it.

With passion pray. With passion make love. With passion eat and drink and dance and play. Why look like a dead fish in this ocean of God?

There are surely people in London who would love to play us off against each other. That would be disastrous for the EU.

Yesterday love was such an easy game for you to play. But now let's face it, things are so much easier today. Let it be like yesterday.

Nowhere in the world do supporters love their clubs more than in England. England is paradise to play in.

I don't think they'd ever make a movie about Chuck Baker but I'd love to play Chuck Baker

I love wasting time and learning to lip-sync to songs; it's a silly hobby of mine.

When I was a kid and I would play pretend, I would end up with blood everywhere and I would cut my feet up. I love the feeling of it being real.

Football is a whole skill to itself. A whole world. A whole universe to itself. Me love it because you have to be skilful to play it! Freedom! Football is freedom.

I love hockey, and I don't love it for any other reason than when I get out there and play, I enjoy it.

Behavior is imitated, then abstracted into play, formalized into drama and story, crystallized into myth and codified into religion—and only then criticized in philosophy, and provided, post-hoc, with rational underpinnings

Every game has rules... The first of these rules is that the game is important. If it wasn't important, you wouldn't be playing it.

Kids need playgrounds dangerous enough to remain challenging. People, including children (who are people too, after all), don't seek to minimize risk. They seek to optimize it. They drive and walk and love and play so that they achieve what they desire, but they push themselves a bit at the same time, too, so they continue to develop. Thus, if things are made too safe, people (including children) start to figure out ways to make them dangerous again.

Behavior is imitated, then abstracted into play, formalized into drama and story, crystallized into myth and codified into religion—and only then criticized in philosophy, and provided, post-hoc, with rational underpinnings. Explicit philosophical statements regarding the grounds for and nature of ethical behavior, stated in a verbally comprehensible manner, were not established through rational endeavor.

We cannot live without food, water, clean air, and shelter. Less self-evidently, we require companionship, play, touch, and intimacy. These are all biological as well as psychological necessities (and this is by no means a comprehensive list).

Where might you learn how to play? Everywhere . . . if you are fortunate and awake.

La relación de una niña con su muñeca es de las más fuertes del universo. Una fuerza descomunal movida por una energía tremenda.

Ele disse que eu era um tolo e não sabia o que era brincar. Eu respondi que tinha uma bicicleta e muito brinquedo. Ele riu e disse que tinha a rua e o cais.

el fútbol es la recuperación semanal de la infancia».

Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is actually being staged in the civilised world.

Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.