Quotes About Play

Play interests me very much," said Hermann: "but I am not in the position to sacrifice the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous.

Two kangaroos were talking to each other, and one said, 'I hope it doesn't rain today. I hate it when the children play inside.

One day humanity will play with law just as children play with disused objects, not in order to restore them to their canonical use but to free them from it for good.

I'm sure civilizations will still evolve through play, or rather as play, since that seems to be a fundamental mechanism of our humanity.

When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up.

When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.

People are at their most mindful when they are at play. If we find ways of enjoying our work blurring the lines between work and play the gains will be greater.

To stimulate creativity one must develop childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition.

Sometimes I get really lonely. Especially when I'm throwing a Frisbee.

Kittens play with yarn, they bat it around. What they're really doing is saying, "I can't knit, get this away from me!"

I think those neighborhood signs that say 'slow children playing' are mean.

If my kid couldn't draw I'd make sure that my kitchen magnets didn't work.

The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.

Yeah, yeah, it's all fun and games until someone loses an eye type of thing. There's that kind of irreverence to it the humor and in the reality of what's really going on that plays into this movie.

Don't buy the toys that make the noise!

I ran around with the other youngsters, hunting, fishing and raising tadpoles and all the rest.

LEGO has essentially taken the concrete block, the building block of the world, and made it into the building block of our imagination.

For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.

As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.

Give children toys that are powered by their imagination, not by batteries.

Creativity and the world of the imagination - the beauty of what we see as a child and the kind of play that we experience as a child - can be a way for us to survive tough times.

Trouble shots are surprisingly easy if you activate your imagination. You simply must be able to imagine exactly what flight the ball will take before you can play any shot well.

Art is the imagination at play in the field of time. Let yourself play.

The need for innovation – the lifeblood of business – is widely recognized, and imagination and play are key ingredients for making it happen.