Quotes About Play

As an actor, it's great to play a strong leader with a heart of gold.

We've gotten so much as a result of the changes. Part of our responsibility is to give something back to the game and the girls who are just starting to play.

I understand the NBA and the role I play on my team. I know that I have to play a leadership role and do whatever I have to do to win.

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

Play is not only our creative drive; it's a fundamental mode of learning.

The day we stop playing will be the day we stop learning.

High performing organizations have cultures of creativity and risk. They encourage workers to innovate and play.

Play is basic to all normal and healthy children. It provides pleasure and learning and a minimum of risks and penalties for mistakes.

Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.

Fun is just another word for learning.

Play is the taproot from which original art springs. It is the raw stuff that the artist channels with all his learning and technique.

I'm still learning so much with every play I write. So I wrestle with word choice, rhythm in final drafts. I think you have to be ruthless.

The life of a character should be an unbroken line of events and emotions, but a play only gives us a few moments on that line - we must create the rest to portray a convincing life.

The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life.

You guys have to get involved in the play with me," she insisted. "This isn't elementary school anymore! The production value will be way better, and so will the acting." I

Kids get so wrapped up in the joy of drawing or pretending or discovering that they'd rarely eat or bathe or sleep if we didn't make them.

Was there ever a time where you felt totally in your groove? Where you created and did stuff just because it was fun without worrying about the outcome? Where you couldn't wait to wake up in the morning and go do your thing?

I sat parked for a while in the parent pickup lot, watching a bunch of little kids run relays up and down the field. To be nine years old. To have life simply about family and friends and who was mad at who and which games you wanted to play at recess, and getting gold stars on spelling tests, an feeling that first crush. Laurel, you had everything back then, and you didn't even know it.

hopscotch, jump rope, charm bracelets, buried treasure, Harriet the Spying, blood sisters, crank calls, pot, coke, quaaludes.

slapping a bright yellow ball around a silver pole.

The twins had brought along Buck Rogers ray guns, but the wind turned their shots and death throes into pantomime.

I always, always meant to be on stage. I only ended up even auditioning for television and movies because I was understudying a Turgenev play on Broadway and was so broke that, when I got a mini-series, I had to take it and was so ashamed because I was such a snob.

Most people thought that training animals was about obedience and control. But in reality, the center of any search and rescue training program was play. For the dog, searching was a game. Animals who had a strong play drive would keep playing indefinitely—through ice and snow, over hard terrain, for hours upon hours—until the game was won. Until they found their target.

An officer of the law tells an undesirable like yourself to get out of town. It's done all the time. If you don't choose to leave, then we have to play by your rules.