Quotes About Play

Whether were parents, carers, teachers or anyone working with young children, we know that children move easily and often between free play and structured play. One is not better or worse than another, they each offer different experiences, different ways of thinking, and different kinds of learning.

More and more in today's world, the opportunity to imagine and play with friends is compromised by the passive consumption of digital media and the limitations inherent in structured computer games.

I love creating models and coming up with explicit structures I can play with.

For me, I was really lucky to go to a city like Chicago where the team was struggling at the time, and I was able to go in and play right away.

I remember that my mom, my dad and I would play different roles in mock debates, where one of us would be the moderator, one of us would be my dad - frequently not my dad - and then one of us would play his opponent.

That has to help if you know the mentality of your opponent, and how he wants to play.

In the centre, you play more with your back to the opponent's goal and have to move into the gaps.

When I analyse an opponent I do not look at the results. I try to find out how they score goals, concede, build up play, counter attack, counter-press, other things. So the result doesn't count for much.

To be respectful to opponents is to play hard against them.

I'm putting constant pressure on my opponents and really dictating play.

You can't expect our opponents to play cautiously.

Makeup is malleable and mercurial: The biggest joy I have every day is the opportunity to create, to play, and to invent with something I've loved forever.

I have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it.

Just to have the opportunity to play an American in America is a dream come true for me.

Just to have the opportunity to play in the NFL, I think it's the biggest dream come true for me.

We always want to play and be dominant with the ball, but we respect the opposition.

My philosophy is to respect the opposition off the field and play it as tough as possible on it.

My career has been defined, in a good way, on the option route. And a lot of times, it's a bang-bang play. It's a great play because it can convert first downs. But at the same time, you don't get a lot of those opportunities in the open field.

People in the U.K. should support who they want to but I would like them to think that playing for England is an option.

The first role I played was Madame Ranevsky in 'The Cherry Orchard.'

In the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra we play such a diversity of music, with 10 arrangers in the band, we don't really worry about whether it's contemporary or not.

At nine or ten, I was playing guitar in music class in my elementary school in Jackson, Michigan. They had a guitar class, and I played with ten of my classmates, and we did a little guitar orchestra for a school music.

I feel like communication is the same whether you're cooking for someone or singing or writing a song or writing a play or ordering from McDonald's.

The process of doing a play is an organic one, and the process of doing a film is totally inorganic.