Quotes About Play

It was play rather than work which enabled man to evolve his higher faculties - everything we mean by the word 'culture'.

Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much

X + Y + Z X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse.

Work? It's just serious play.

Most of the time, the creative part is like playing in a sandbox. I can sit here and work for 12 hours and not get tired of it.

It has been said that work is the highest form of play.

Those who are excluded from meaningful work are, by an large, excluded from meaningful play.

It is easy to work when the soul is at play.

I go to work, I do a job, I play a role, and then I go home. I don't wear a cape at home. I'm not an invulnerable alien at home.

Laziness begat wearisomeness, and this put men in quest of diversions, play and company, on which however it is a constant attendant; he who works hard, has enough to do with himself otherwise.

When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really PLAYED.

I work too hard and don't play enough.

I grew up in a fun-loving environment - you work hard and play hard.

To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play.

Us ballplayers do things backward. First we play, then we retire and go to work.

I've never really been a workaholic. I work very hard, but I also enjoy playing. I think it's important to have a balanced and well-rounded life.

If I'm fortunate enough to play in the NFL, anywhere for anybody would be great. But if I had to pick, it would be the hometown [Atlanta] Falcons because I used to work for them.

A little work, a little play, To keep us going - and so, good-day!

So, did I work with Warhol? I worked with him less on that play then I did on other things. He actually did a portrait of my rabbit and some other stuff. Warhol was definitely... Warhol.

I think this dichotomy or opposition between work and play, between leisure and serious stuff, is definitely a bad way of thinking about the useful insights that play provides.

I could always throw the ball pretty well and I worked pretty hard at learning how to play the game. But I didn't consider it work as a kid, since I just loved playing baseball.

I think rather than further the stereotypes of me going into the league and being 'the Harvard guy,' I shattered those when I was a rookie and I couldn't call a play in the huddle.

If it fits in with my career, it will be a challenge for me to play for a MLS team. If that would be Steven Gerrard's club, that would be very special.