Quotes About Play

We presently found a nice grassplot, at one side of which I took my stand; and all things being prepared, I tossed the kite up just as little John ran off.

In a world in which men write thousands of books and one million scientific papers a year, the mythic bricoleur is the man who plays with all that information and hears a music inside the noise.

I used to do this as a kid. And now they're paying me for it, which is cool.

That was part of the job, to pretend to listen, to feign concern. There are three professions who play at that game; barkeeps are the ones who do it on their feet.

Hob is not a plaything or a human toy.

The band in heaven, they play my favorite songPlay it once againPlay it all night long

As long as life continues, the creative challenge is to tussle, play, and make love with the present moment while giving your unique gift.

What ultimately lies behind the appeal of bureaucracy is fear of play.

a tacit cosmology in which the play principle (and by extension, creativity) is itself seen as frightening, while game-like behavior is celebrated as transparent and predictable, and where as a result, the advance of all these rules and regulations is itself experienced as a kind of freedom.

One of the most striking patterns we discovered while researching this book – indeed, one of the patterns that felt most like a genuine breakthrough to us – was how, time and again in human history, that zone of ritual play has also acted as a site of social experimentation – even, in some ways, as an encyclopaedia of social possibilities.

I would myself argue that nowadays, at least, it is impossible to say it is just one thing, rather, art has become a field for play and experiment with the very idea of value – but all pretty much agree that, were an artist to be seen as simply in it for the money, his work would be worth less of it.

People tend to forget that play is serious.

Every man and woman should play the noblest games and be of another mind from what they are at present.

From now on I want you to carry an Android phone with you, a Samsung or something. You must have one at the office?" "Yes, I think there are a couple." "Good. So go straight into Google Play and download the RedPhone app and also the Threema app for text messaging. We need a secure line of communication.

Everything I ever valued before this was valued only because it was useless, because time spent upon it was not demanded but freely given, because to play is to be free. Free is not a word that exists here, I think, in their language. Nothing here is free of its own nature, its own law.

Everybody makes their own fun. If you don't make it yourself, it isn't fun. It's entertainment.

Should I be the one to play God? We're both about the same age, but we grew up in different neighborhoods.

Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.

You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play.

The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.

Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play.

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.

What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.

Waves are toys from God.