Play Quotes

• We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I live in a room and I go to work and I play a game called getting through the day while you wait for the night.

  Lillian Hellman

  Life, Night, Games

  Lillian Hellman (1971). “The collected plays”, Little Brown and Company

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• The screech-owl, with ill-boding cry, Portends strange things, old women say; Stops every fool that passes by, And frights the school-boy from his play.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  School, Boys, Owl

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, “The Politicians”

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• It is easy to work when the soul is at play.

  Emily Dickinson

  Soul, Easy

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.499, Delphi Classics

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• If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.

  William Shakespeare

  Music, Food, Unrequited Love

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

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• In our play we reveal what kind of people we are.

  Ovid

  Sports, People, Kind

  Ovid (1957). “The Loves: The Art of Beauty, The Remedies for Love, and The Art of Love”, p.164, Indiana University Press

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• We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing

  Charles E. Schaefer

  Fun, Alive, Authenticity

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• Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Love, Life, Happiness

  Henry Van Dyke (2007). “Counsels by the Way”, p.5, Wildside Press LLC

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• Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

  Heraclitus

  Inspirational, Happiness, Children

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• The creative mind plays with the object it loves.

  Carl Jung

  Love, Happiness, Passion

  Carl Jung (2016). “Psychological Types”, p.152, Routledge

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• Play becomes joy, joy becomes work, work becomes play.

  Johannes Itten

  Joy

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• Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

  Edward de Bono

  Funny, Wisdom, Humorous

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• Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

  Miles Davis

  Music, African American, Jazz And Life

  "SPIN" Magazine, (p. 30), December 1990.

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• Men should learn to live with the same seriousness with which children play.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, Men, Should

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• The very essence of playfulness is an openness to anything that may happen, the feeling that whatever happens, it's okay... you're either free to play, or you're not.

  John Cleese

  Essence, Feelings, May

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• It is better to play than do nothing.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Clever

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• Play is your route to mastery.

  Sara Genn

  Mastery, Routes

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• Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.

  Aristotle

  Children, Pain, Learning

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• Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Motivational, Yoga

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• The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

  Carl Jung

  Leadership, Thoughtful, Imagination Creativity

  Carl Jung (2016). “Psychological Types”, p.88, Routledge

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

  Albert Einstein

  Creativity, Humor, Desire

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• I can never fear that things will go far wrong where common sense has fair play.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Common Sense, Never Fear, Fairs

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1853). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.73

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• In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Happiness, Children, Real

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• The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Fun, Inspirational Life, Garden

  "All Things Considered". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1908.

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• There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not stay in the mind. So avoid compulsion, and let your children's lessons take the form of play.

  Plato

  Children, Teaching, Exercise

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