Quotes About Play

I try to be positive. I speak to my players about how we have to play, respect the rules. What I have done is always be positive.

And before you ask, I don't ask what equipment my lovers have, merely if they want to play.

A child walked by, rolling a metal hoop that made a sound of autumn.

Boys need to have the courage to fight back!" their mother continued. "If you want to keep on playing with girls all the time, I'm going to have to snip off your weenie!

We are all born artists. … Almost everything kids do is art.

La infancia es un periodo en el que el tiempo y el espacio se mezclan.

If God wanted humans to play chess, he would have made us black or white.

We do not stop working and playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop working and playing.

None of my friends know how to play imagining games the way you do," Melanie said. "Some of them can do it a little bit but they mostly don't have any very good ideas. And a lot of them only like ball games or other things that are already made up. But I like imagining games better than anything.

Depending on whom you ask, time is money, time is love, time is work, time is play, time is enjoying friends, time is raising children, and time is much more. Time is what you make of it.

Fun is never gone because life is fun.

I would make my mom buy me the toy doctor kit.

I think it's fun to play with worlds that you can add a lot of your own imagination to. With 'True Blood ' you're not limited by anything, there are just leaps and bounds of the imagination you can take with these characters.

This etymology puts me in mind of Winnicott's notion of potential space–that intermediate area between the subjective and objective in which creativity and play occur. Psychotherapy is akin to play, according to Winnicott. Therapy takes place neither inside the mind of the patient nor inside that of the therapist, but in some middle area, in the potential space between them.

play with whatever the day brought in.

The actor cannot act a verb without an object.

Life is so uncertain that it is far better and more joyous to play your way through it than to plan or pray your way through it.

Originality and creativity do not result from calculated effort, but from the natural state of consciousness—an open mind at play.

We live like actors in a play who are given only one line at a time, going through the motions without understanding the full story. But when you get in touch with your soul, you see the whole script for the drama.

Another example: When you watch a young child who is playing with complete focus and yet totally carefree, it's hard not to feel a tug. Doesn't the child's innocence seem palpable at that moment? Can't you feel in yourself—or yearn to feel—the same delight in play? Doesn't the child's tiny body seem as fragile as a soap bubble and yet bursting with life itself, something immense, eternal, never to be defeated?

My stepdad provided me with an amazing childhood. I played outside like a normal kid, I rode my bike, I walked to school, but the happiest times were when I was acting.

All the modern verse plays, they're terrible they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.

It would be better maybe if we could stop loving the children and their delicate brawls, pelting across the square in tandem, deking from cover to cover in raucous celebration and they are never winded, bemusing us with the rites of our own gone childhood; if only they stopped mattering, the children, it might be possible, now while the square lies stunned by noon.

Life is very similar to a game of cards, where you have absolutely no control over the hand you're dealt. And yet you have an excellent control on how to play the game with those cards to make your game amazingly enjoyable. So stop worrying about the hand you're dealt; play your cards right, and enjoy the game! Cheers!