Quotes About Play

Play is the child's symbolic language of self-expression and can reveal (a) what the child has experienced; (b) reactions to what was experienced; (c) feelings about what was experienced; (d) what the child wishes, wants, or needs; and (e) the child's perception of self.

Kakor psi imajo tudi ljudje radi ponavljanje. Lov za žogo, dirkanje v krogu, drsanje po drsalnici. Kajti tako kot je vsaki? podobno, je tudi razli?no.

When Mr. Ferris found out about the Broadway play, Clarence didn't stop rocking during the whole lab.

The great German philosopher Friedrich Schiller was right to claim—as Jane too liked to say—that people are only completely human when they play.

Send anyone claiming that their RPG activity is an art form my way, and I'll gladly stick a pin in their head and deflate it just to have the satisfaction of the popping sound that makes. One might play a game artfully, but that makes neither the game nor its play art.

When you're supposed to be working, work, and when you're supposed to be playing, play. It's a weird tightrope you're walking, but it's only when you get your priorities mixed up that things fall apart.

It was disagreeable duty at best, taking men from their fields, women from the hearth, and children from play to push them at gunpoint to relocation centers,

It's time to make the most of the one life God gives us, and that means we have to learn how to play a little defense. Resolve today that the toxic people won't take you down or even distract you. Your mission matters too much for that.

It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.

play has become too domesticated and regimented while playgrounds themselves have become more and more barren. May today are devoid of vegetation with which to form nests, shelters, wands, dolls, or other playthings...These concerns are best explored in a heterogeneous habitat, where several secret niches are harbored, the kinds that can no longer be found on prefabricated metal and plastic jungle gym.

They played at hearts as other children might play at ball; only, as it was really their two hearts that they flung to and fro, they had to be very, very handy to catch them, each time, without hurting them.

If God had wanted us to play football in the clouds, he'd have put grass up there.

But nothing warps time quite like childhood

laughed and played, so happy with what he had made, while finding my delight in the children of men.

The parent who gets down on the floor to play with a child on Christmas Day is usually doing a most remarkable thing -- something seldom repeated during the rest of the year. These are, after all, busy parents committed to their work or their success in the larger society, and they do not have much left-over time in which to play with their children.

The opposite of play is not work—the opposite of play is depression.

Go and play. Run around. Build something. Break something. Climb a tree. Get dirty. Get in some trouble. Have some fun.

Peter glanced up at the stars and a wicked smile lit his face. "Time to play," he whispered to the stars and winked. And the stars winked back, for Peter's smile is a most contagious thing.

Let's play," Peter said.

El cerebro infantil necesita más que palabras y lecciones y actividades organizadas: necesita amor y amistad y la libertad para jugar y soñar despierto.

Los niños reconstruyen los acontecimientos mediante juegos, dibujos y en sus interacciones diarias.

As the creative adult needs to toy with ideas, the child, to form his ideas, needs toys--and plenty of leisure and scope to play with them as he likes, and not just the way adults think proper. This is why he must be given this freedom for his play to be successful and truly serve him well.

Historja tych filmów bywa prosta, banalna, w banalno?ci swej gryz?ca, jak machorka. Filmy takie, wy?wietlane dziesi?tkami w podmiejskich iluzjonach, wyciskaj? ?zy z oczu sentymentalnych szwaczek.

The true creator-self is a light at heart and free child, who accesses destiny as a simple act of joyful play.