Quotes About Play

Is it not the play of the mind we are after? Is it not that that shows a mind is there at all?

The hero dead cannot expire: The dead still play their part.

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

In their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics remind me of middle-class parents who do not allow their children to play in the street.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it.

Master your instrument, master the music, and then forget all that crap and just play.

There is no point and that there doesn't have to be a point. We don't need a reason. As long as it's fun.

If mothers could learn to do for themselves what they do for their children when these are overdone, we should have happier households. Let the mother go out to play!

If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules If Life is a Game, Play it for Real!

Why wait for the weekend to have fun

Screen-Free Week is an annual invitation to play, explore, and rediscover the joys of life beyond ad-supported screens. During the first week of May, thousands of families, schools, and communities around the world will put down their entertainment screens for seven days of fun, connection, and discovery.

What we all need is enough vacation every day so that we can face each morning with health sufficient to do our work in gladness. That is to say, we need enough of a play-spell every day to keep us in good physical condition.

Kids don't remember their best day of television.

We need rests called naps And rests called play, We need little moving rests Called getting away.

The attitude and identity that we want to play with doesn't change.

Even when he played, he made a business of it.

I never even think about the physicality of roles, until honestly I get the gig and I think, 'OK, now what do I have to do in this one?' Like, I approach it thinking more about the character -- do I respond to it? Is it something I think I can play? Does it seem like it'll be fun?

Imaginary friends." "You know they're not real," Mina said. "I know, I know." Annabelle put a finger to her lips, shhh, and added in a stage whisper. "But they don't." Mina had laughed, and then stopped laughing because it was clear that Annabelle didn't get her own joke, and she wasn't about to start laughing at her sister. Not then. Not ever.

The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them

I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.

games are an extension of our imagination

The structure of play absorbs the player into itself, and thus frees him from the burden of taking the initiative, which constitutes the actual strain of existence.

As in play, it rests on a common willingness of the participants in conversation to lend themselves to the emergence of something else, the Sache or subject matter which comes to presence and presentation in conversation.

El juego es una función elemental de la vida humana, hasta el punto de que no se puede pensar en absoluto la cultura humana sin un componente lúdico.