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Quotes about Play

I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling & laughing.

Jack Kerouac : b. Jean-Louis Lebris De Kerouac  US author, influenced the “beat” generation
Jack Kerouac (1922 - 1969)
 
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You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play. It’s the playing that’s irresistible. Dicing from one year to the next with the things you love, what you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson : Gaia Child
Jeanette Winterson
Source: The Passion, Page: 43
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Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.

Bill Watterson
 
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Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes— all are warm with divine radium and must have lots of fun in them.

John Muir : American naturalist
John Muir (1838 - 1914)
 
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Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul alike.

John Muir : American naturalist
John Muir (1838 - 1914)
 
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We now know that human transformation does not happen through didacticism or through excessive certitude, but through the playful entertainment of another scripting of reality that may subvert the old given text and its interpretation and lead to the embrace of an alternative text and its redescription of reality.

Walter Brueggemann
 
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What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.

Julia Cameron : Gaia Child
Julia Cameron
 
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The happy individual is able to renew daily and with full consciousness all the basic expressions of human identity: work, love, communication, play, and rest.

Robert Grudin : Gaia Explorer
Robert Grudin
Source: Time and the Art of Living, Page: 161
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Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part, and does not believe in the play.

Mignon McLaughlin (1915 - )
Source: The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
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Why is Lego the most ingenious toy in the world?

Jostein Gaarder : Gaia Child
Jostein Gaarder
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I'm convinced quality outdoor naked time is the secret to health and longevity.

Kaya McLaren
Source: Church of the Dog, Page: 35
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Most of what I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sandpile at Sunday school. These are the things I learned: Share everything.
Play fair.
Don't hit people.
Put things back where you found them.
Clean up your own mess.
Don't take things that aren't yours.
Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
Wash your hands before you eat.
Flush.
Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
Take a nap every afternoon.
When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together.
Be aware of wonder.
Everything you need to know is in there somewhere.  The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation.  Ecology and politics and equality and sane living.  Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or your government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm.  Think what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap.  Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess.  And it is true, no matter how old you are - when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.

Robert Fulghum : US author, Unitarian clergyman; wrote essay collections
Robert Fulghum (1937 - )
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Sanity is the playground for the unimaginative.

unknown : Gaia Explorer
unknown
 
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I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.

Tiger Woods : Gaia Explorer
Tiger Woods
Source: The Tiger Woods Rulebook To Being A Huge Success: http://www.dumblittleman.com/2008/06/tiger-woods-rulebook-to-being-huge.html
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"The True Man wants 2 things: DANGER & PLAY. For that reason he wants Woman, as the Most Dangerous Plaything"

Friedrich Nietzsche
 
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You can't have real learning with a child unless they are playing. Real playing is how real learning takes place. You can have conditioning and a Pavlovian conditioning of his dogs, or behaviors modifications through other means which we look on as very serious, and we generally call learning, but it's not learning. It's conditioning. Real learning takes place by what Maria Montesorri would call the absorbent mind of the child. Simply absorbing their universe, absorbing it, becoming it, and they do this through play. Play can be the most serious undertaking of a child's life. It is the most serious undertaking. They are completely entrained in play. Mind, the three parts of the mind; thought, feeling, action, the body, every aspect of the child's self entrained solely focuses totally on the activity of absorbing their world. Absorbing their environment. It is the most serious active to their life because they're literally building their construction of knowledge of the world, of themselves, of the relationship between the two and laying down all the foundations for the later forms of intelligence.

Joseph Chilton Pearce
Source: http://www.ttfuture.org/services/play/index.htm
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You can discover more about a person in an hour of play, than in a year of conversation.

Plato : Greek philosopher, student of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle
Plato (c.427 - 347 BC)
 
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Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score.  The real excitment is in playing the game.

Donald Trump : US real-estate developer, amassed vast hotel, casino, & other properties in the NYC area
Donald Trump (1946 - )
Source: Donald Trump
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If the business were a play, Act One is: Woohoo, bright and bushy-tailed. We're going to make something great! Act Two is: We're six months behind on back-end development. We're trying to raise venture capital. We're trying to figure out what furniture we should sell to make payroll.

Caterina Fake
Source: How We Did It: Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake, Co-founders, Flickr: http://www.inc.com/magazine/20061201/hidi-butterfield-fake.html
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All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.' 

Marcel Duchamp (1887 - 1968)
Source: The Box in a Valise, translated by David Britt (New Yorki: Rizzoli, 1989) p285
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Often one of the stumbling blocks to living a simpler life is our inability or unwillingness to change how we play some of the games that got us into these complicated lives in the first place.

Elaine St. James
 
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What I'm talkin' about is a game.  A game that can't be won, only played.

Bagger Vance
Source: Movie, the legend of bagger vance
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Play, Learn, and Pass it on.

Dusty Skye
Source: Dusty Skye
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The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play....  He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leavaing others to decide whether he is working or playing.  To him he's always doing both.

James Michener
 
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While I was sitting one night with a poet friend watching a great opera performed in a tent under arc lights, the poet took my arm and pointed silently. Far up, blundering out of the night, a huge Cecropia moth swept past from light to light over the posturings of the actors. “He doesn’t know,” my friend whispered excitedly. “He’s passing through an alien universe brightly lit but invisible to him. He’s in another play; he doesn’t see us. He doesn’t know. Maybe it’s happening right now to us.

Loren Eiseley (1907 - 1977)
Source: http://www.theamericanscholar.org/sp07/newtheory-lanza.html
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The masters in the art of living make little distinction between their work and their play, their labor and their leisure, their minds and their bodies, their information, their recreation, their love and their religion. They hardly know which is which, they simply pursue their vision of excellence at whatever they do, leaving others to decide whether they are working or playing.

James Albert Michener : US author, Pulitzer prize, sweeping historical sagas, prolific writer, tireless researcher
James Albert Michener (1907 - 1997)
 
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The constant game of life is without skills without knowing differences between opponents-components-exponents.
It is the true game of sportsmen, for sportsmanship is the truest method of play.

Rasa
Source: Testament of Will, Green 5
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Thinking can be lateral or "sweaty". For the latter you're better off in an office and following a routine but for the former you have to be "out of your mind", so to speak. So although I recognize the merits of hard work, I find that my work goes stale if I don't go off wandering around the world every few weeks. My friends think I'm a gipsy, but that's when I do "part 1" of my best work.

Joao Magueijo
Source: http://frontwheeldrive.com/joao_magueijo.html
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But what is work and what is not work? Is it work to dig, to carpenter, to plant trees, to fell trees, to ride, to fish, to hunt, to feed chickens, to play the piano, to take photographs, to build a house, to cook, to sew, to trim hats, to mend motor bicycles? All of these things are work to somebody, and all of them are play to somebody. There are in fact very few activities which cannot be classed either as work or play according as you choose to regard them.

George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
Source: http://www.happiness-project.com/happiness_project/2006/04/this_saturday_a_4.html
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All of the elements of the comic way tend to spread to others, insinuating joy where it was previously absent. Conversation has a way of leaping among persons, as it does at parties and celebratory gatherings. Storytelling always begets storytelling. It is difficult to watch others at play without wanting to join them. This is not only a human phenomenon, for researchers have consistently noted that animals at play are often imitated by other animals. So wherever it is possible to initiate a playful activity, it will have a good chance of replicating itself through other parts of the system.

Joseph Meeker
 
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