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Quotes About Play

So sometimes you have to play your hand and sort of push in a direction. And I think that masculinity is the driving point for a lot of the way that people, like, posture in the work.
~ Kehinde Wiley
I am a hopeless romantic who falls in lust and gets in trouble. I love my work and am very productive, yet I always find time to play.
~ Maksim Chmerkovskiy
Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty.
~ Mary Oliver
When you come to actually act, it's a game. It may be a very serious game, but it's still a game. If you lose that sense of play, the work suffers.
~ Michael Sheen
I'm having a lot more fun living life. My new motto is "plerking" - I play and work at the same time.
~ Nelly Furtado
Let me just put it that way: I work really hard and play really hard too.
~ Nicola Formichetti
Backyards are as Australian as the Hills Hoists they host, and as individual as those who work and play in them. Whether haven, pantry or playground, they all tell a story.
~ Pete Munro
I'm lucky to have the kind of life where the differentiation between work and play is absolutely zilch. I have no idea whether I'm working or whether I'm playing.
~ Peter Cundill
I get to kind of pretend I'm going to play baseball. I get to work out and do all the stuff that was part of baseball. I just don't get to play.
~ Prince Fielder
So don't. Come hang out with me at work. We can play naughty dress up with the hospital gowns and rearrange the supply closets.
~ Rachel Vincent
The fact that there are awards and exhibitions and some people know who I am is just all gravy. I'm lucky to just work in an industry where I get to play so much.
~ Rick Heinrichs
Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes Is the deed ever truly done For Heaven and the future's sakes
~ Robert Frost
Work would be terribly boring if one did not play the game all out, passionately.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Practice is an ever-fresh, challenging flow of work and play in which we continually test and demolish our own delusions; therefore, it is sometimes painful.
~ Stephen Nachmanovitch
Everybody works . . . . That's what life is. Work and a little play and a lot of prayer.
~ Susan Vreeland
'Visiting Mr. Green' is a good play. I enjoy being in it, and I have a wonderful colleague, Aidan deSalaiz, to work with. Audiences like it a lot. What's not to like?
~ Theodore Bikel
I don't want to work, I want to bang on the drum all day.
~ Todd Rundgren
You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form.
~ Tom Stoppard
As good play for nothing, you know, as work for nothing.
~ Walter Scott
Unnecessary hustle is one of the American follies. We hustle at both work and play, and consequently enjoy neither to the utmost.
~ William Feather
If all the year were playing holidays To sport would be as tedious as to work.
~ William Shakespeare
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
~ Mark Twain
7 Rules to a Happy Life:1. Be humble2. Don't worry 3. Don't settle for less4. Mind your business5. Work hard 6. Play hard7. Be nice
~ Germany Kent
Never ever work! Do everything for fun. Remember, life is for joy!
~ Debasish Mridha