Quotes About Play

Emotions are like muscles. Most of them go highly unattended, it's usually the weaker, undefined ones that cause injury to the rest, and there is most certainly memory response in play.

Play touches and stimulates vitality, awakening the whole person - mind, body, intelligence and creativity.

Intelligence has got the upper hand to such an extent that it transforms the real task into an unreal trick and reality into a play.

Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.

Kindness went out to play all on a summer's day. With her about many smiles came out and joined in sweet array.

Let's play with sound, forget all knowledge and instrumental skills, and just use instinct – the same way punk did.

Knowledge is confidence. And confidence lets you play fast.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

Erotic play discloses a nameless world which is revealed by the nocturnal language of lovers. Such language is not written down. It is whispered into the ear at night in a hoarse voice. At dawn it is forgotten.

certainly the only family member she ever saw). She could recall doing the things she supposed most other children did—playing in dirt, looking at pictures—without any accompanying grief or anger

Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.

Play is the work of childhood.

I first decided to become an actor at school. A teacher gave us a play to do and that had a major impact. At first, I wanted to work in the theatre, but there was something about the ambience of film, especially American films, that always attracted me.

I don't want to be intelligent! I want to enjoy myself.

The Claudias also need laughter and play, they need people who will celebrate life with them and manifest their joy of being with them. It was this joy and the gentle presence of Nadine and the others in Suyapa that gradually weakened Claudia's great walls of defence. Little by little, she began to trust that she was not bad, but capable of loving and being loved.

It's nice to look forward to, isn't it—a life of work and play and little daily adventures side by side with somebody you love?

You know, Daddy, it isn't the work that is going to be hard in college. It's the play. Half the time I don't know what the girls are talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has shared. I'm a foreigner in the world and I don't understand the language.

I am going to pretend that all life is just a game which I must play as skilfully and fairly as I can. If I lose, I am going to shrug my shoulders and laugh—also if I win.

You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.

Poetry is a game of loser-take-all.

When you laugh and play, your body is calmed and energized by the release of natural opiates—endorphins that relax you physically and lift you up the ladder emotionally.

Can Aa-a-ana-liese come out and play?

Now there's a black market for toys at our school. Christopher Stangel brought in a bunch of Legos from home yesterday, and I hear a single brick will set you back fifty cents.

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