Quotes About Play

Play is the work of the child.

This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

He does it with his hands, by experience, first in play and then through work. The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence.

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy - and Jill a wealthy widow.

I was early taught to work as well as play. My life has been one long, happy holiday; Full of work and full of play- I dropped the worry on the way- And God was good to me everyday.

All work and no play doesn't just make Jill and Jack dull, it kills the potential of discovery, mastery, and openness to change and flexibility and it hinders innovation and invention.

The child can only develop fully by means of experience in his environment. We call such experience 'work'.

My work is a game, a very serious game.

Play becomes joy, joy becomes work, work becomes play.

The opposite of play is not work. It's depression.

The freest child is the child who is most interested in what he is doing, and at whose hand are the materials for his work or play.

Eight hours of work, eight hours of play, eight hours of sleep - eight hours a day!

All work and no play may make Jim a dull boy, but no work and all play makes Jim all kinds of a jackass.

It is not really work if you are having fun.

Get up. Go to work. Play the game. Get showered. Go home.

The misuse of extrinsic rewards, so common in business, impedes creativity, stifles personal satisfaction and turns play into work.

When you've lost all your play, guess what love becomes. Work. Work that gets harder every hour.

One more thing: don't spend too much time merely reading. The best part of this work is the play, so play and enjoy!

Play is a child's work and this is not a trivial pursuit.

Finding the medium that excites your imagination, that you love to play with and work in, is an important step to freeing your creative energies.

The opposite of play isn't work. It's depression. To play is to act out and be willful, exultant and committed as if one is assured of one's prospects.

Create the kind of workplace and company culture that will attract great talent. If you hire brilliant people, they will make work feel more like play.

The difference between work and play is only a matter of attitude. Work, fully done, is play.