Quotes About Play

For Winnicott, the "transitional space" between the internal world and "reality" becomes a space for creative play and imagination

It is all very well to say that a man should play for the pure love of the game. Perhaps he ought, but to the working man it is impossible.

there is for many a poverty of play and cultural life because, although the person had a place for erudition, there was a relative failure on the part of those who constitute the child's world of persons to introduce cultural elements at the appropriate phases of the person's personality development.

Psychotherapy takes place at the overlap of two areas of playing: that of the patient and that of the therapist. Psychotherapy has to do with two people playing together. The corollary of this is that where playing is not possible then the work done by the therapist is directed towards bringing the patient from a state of not being able to play into a state of being able to play.

Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

We are not to work on the Sabbath because it takes us out of the play of joy. It is as bizarre as making love to your spouse, but getting out of bed during the process to cut your lawn or wash dishes. Such an offense would do far more than spoil the mood; it would be a direct assault on the integrity of joy, announcing that a mundane chore is more pleasurable than sexual joy with your spouse.

When a suspended game resumes, players who have just joined the team may enter the game. This means, theoretically, if a player is traded between the two teams before the rescheduled date, he could conceivably play on both sides in the same game.

Fizz Ed is gym class

The guys and I all agreed that sword fighting was cool. Instead of us playing games in fizz ed, they should let us fight with swords. All that running and jumping and stabbing each other would be good exercise.

My friend Alexia and I were the knights. We got on

For the free and for the brave. We pledge allegiance to our flag, And when we're done we'll go play tag.

all the boys had a contest to see who could spin around in circles the longest without throwing up.

I wish I were a shark so humans would play with me with strange toys.

Kittens are born blind and rely on their mother's milk for the first week. They grow quickly and are soon walking and play-fighting with their brothers and sisters as they learn how to be a cat.

Recognize and accept the high activity level of boys and give them safe boy places to express it.

Mastery of design, empathy, play, and other seemingly "soft" aptitudes is now the main way for individuals and firms to stand out in a crowded marketplace.

Sawyer Effect: A weird behavioral alchemy inspired by the scene in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in which Tom and friends whitewash Aunt Polly's fence. This effect has two aspects. The negative: Rewards can turn play into work. The positive: Focusing on mastery can turn work into play.

There is no reason to believe any longer that only irrelevant 'play' can be enjoyed, while the serious business of life must be borne as a burdensome cross. Once we realize that the boundaries between work and play are artificial, we can take matters in hand and begin the difficult task of making life more livable.

The Tinkering School. More of a lab than a school, this summer program, created by computer scientist Gever Tulley, lets children from seven to seventeen play around with interesting stuff and build cool things.

Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility BY JAMES P. CARSE

Breaks and recess are not deviations from learning. They are part of learning.

A little kid's life bursts with autotelic experiences.

began by writing about creativity. Creativity took him into the study of play. And his exploration of play unlocked an insight about the human experience that would make him famous. In the midst of play, many people enjoyed what Csikszentmihalyi called "autotelic experiences"—from the Greek auto (self) and telos (goal or purpose). In an autotelic experience, the goal is self-fulfilling; the activity is its own reward.

In my books the technology that I choose to talk about has to serve the themes. What that means is that I end up having to cut out a lot of cool technology that would be really fun to describe and play with, but which would just confuse everybody. So in 'Amped ' I focus on neural implants.