Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience. — Johan Huizinga
Don't play what's there, play what's not there. — Miles Davis
The perfect state, the summum bonum, is Play. In play, life expresses itself in its fullness. God's life is play. Adam fell when his play became serious business . — Jakob Bohme
Play stimulates the parts of the brain involved in both careful, logical reasoning and carefree, unbound exploration. — Greg McKeown
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
Short Play Quotes
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. — George Bernard Shaw
Play it cool, that's the old school rule man. — Nas
Having sex is like playing bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand. — Woody Allen
A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man. — Malcolm X
The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well. — Andres Segovia
Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it. — Eileen Caddy
Either you play the game or let the game play you and be that broke sucka talkin bout I stayed true — J. Cole
Life and love go on, let the music play. — Johnny Cash
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else. — Dianne Feinstein
To play without passion is inexcusable! — Ludwig van Beethoven
Play Image Quotes
You only live once. You don't want your tombstone to read: Played it safe.
Music is enough for a lifetime - but a lifetime is not enough for music. — Sergei Rachmaninoff
I don't want to play with marbles, when God told me to move mountains! — Reinhard Bonnke
I don't think of work as work and play as play. It's all living.
The girl who can't dance says the band can't play. — Yiddish Proverbs
When you see a good move, look for a better one. — Emanuel Lasker
It's better to be a pirate than to join the Navy.
Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it. — Tom Lehrer
Let us play in the sun and count every beautiful thing we can see.
Work And Play Quotes
Live by the creed that a strong work ethic, playing by the rules, and doing things the right way will bring about opportunities for success and, ultimately, happiness. — Nick Saban
The richest and fullest lives attempt to achieve an inner balance between three realms: work, love and play. — Erik Erikson
This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play. — Alan Watts
There is no passion to be found playing small, in settling for a life that is less than the one your are capable of living.
Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing. — William Arthur Ward
My work is play. And I play when I design. I even looked it up in the dictionary, to make sure that I actually do that, and the definition of “play,” number one, was “engaging in a childlike activity or endeavor,” and number two was “gambling.” And I realize I do both when I’m designing. — Paula Scher
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut — Albert Einstein
We are all searching for someone whose demons play well with ours
The world isn't getting any easier. With all these new inventions I believe that people are hurried more and pushed more... The hurried way is not the right way; you need time for everything - time to work, time to play, time to rest. — Hedy Lamarr
The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. — Arnold J. Toynbee
Anybody that I ever dealt with knows that I'm a very focused individual, and when it comes to my work and what I do, you might have to play the back burner to that. — Young Jeezy
All work and no play makes jack. With enough jack, Jack needn't be a dull boy. — Malcolm Forbes
All Work And No Play Quotes
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy - and Jill a wealthy widow. — Evan Esar
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. — Stanley Kubrick
All work and no play doesn't just make Jill and Jack dull, it kills the potential of discovery, mastery, and openness to change and flexibility and it hinders innovation and invention. — Joline Godfrey
You can't score a goal, if you don't take a shot.
All work and no play is not good for the soul — Felix Sabates
All work and no play may make Jim a dull boy, but no work and all play makes Jim all kinds of a jackass. — William Randolph Hearst
All work and no play makes one the wealthiest man in the cemetery. — Unknown
Sleeping is forbidden at the age of 22. It's all work and no play. — Usher
Learning Through Play Quotes
I tell my students, 'It's an important tradition and you have to go back and hear this music and learn its language all the way through. How are you going to know what's new to play, if you haven't listened to everything that's old?' — Jackie McLean
Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity. I don't think I ever had to listen to anyone else to learn how to play drums. I wish I could say that for about ten thousand other drummers. — Buddy Rich
You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. — Richard Bach
We could play them through the week, and then the weekend we could play the black joints. I learned to be very versatile and learned to love it. So it stays with me even up to now. — Sayings
I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched. — Mahendra Singh Dhoni
When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them. — Charlie Watts
I love melody, and that's what I love about pop music. The words can become what they are through a special melody. I learned to play guitar by myself, and writing songs came with playing guitar, so the writing isn't one part and the music something else. — Anna Ternheim
I've reached the stage of my life where learning is so important to me. I go through the past enough when I play my old songs on stage. And I don't mind doing that. But I want to think about the future. — Elton John
To tell you the truth, I've never been really good at learning other people's stuff. I've been playing since I was 11, and I never took lessons. I kind of learned through hit and miss. I had the patience just because I loved guitar so much. — Mark Tremonti
It's strange, 'cause a play, you start at the beginning and you go all the way through to the end. So it's naturally very well rehearsed and you get a rhythm and a flow. In film, you can shoot the ending before the beginning. It's very odd. And it's like a craft you have to learn. — Judd Nelson
Child's Play Quotes
A child’s greatest achievements are possible in play, achievements that tomorrow will become her basic level of real action. — Lev S. Vygotsky
Put a small child in a playpen with an apple and a bunny. If s/he eats the apple and plays with the bunny, s/he's normal;but if s/he eats the bunny and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car. Somewhere along the line we must have been TAUGHT to do the wrong thing. — Maynard James Keenan
If you go back to childhood, you observe that if a child’s basic needs are met their default state is happy – they don’t need an iPhone, they can play with their toes and be happy. — Mo Gawdat
Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love. — Craig Claiborne
When I was a child I liked the games of Capablanca, and later I was captivated by Alekhine's play. — Vladimir Kramnik
Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun. — Tiger Woods
I ask why your Omnipotent God does not hold a man back when he is about to commit a sin or offence. It is child’s play for God. Why did He not kill war lords? Why did He not remove the fury of war from their minds? In this way God could have saved humanity from great calamity and horror. — Bhagat Singh
I wanted to play a mother again. I thought it would be interesting to play the mother of an older child. And it was also the kind of part I've been looking for my whole career, actually, in film. You know, just to play a femme fatale who's very smart, and wicked. — Sigourney Weaver
Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain. — Aristotle
Outdoor Play Quotes
The profound psychological benefits of play are integral to healthy cultures, communities, and individuals, including a direct relationship to work productivity. Engage in some unstructured outdoor physical exertion each day to counter the negative effects of a sedentary, technological existence. — Mark Sisson
Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me. — Larry Wilcox
Of course I have played outdoor games. I once played dominoes in an open air cafe in Paris. — Oscar Wilde
Like most people I can be lazy, so it's nice to have a goal or deadline or reason to work out. I feel better when I get to exercise, or when I'm outdoors. I like to hike, swim and run, and I love to play soccer. — Viggo Mortensen
Every child begins the world again, to some extent, and loves to stay outdoors, even in wet and cold. It plays house, as well as horse, having an instinct for it...At last we know not what it is to live in the open air, and our lives are domestic in more senses than we think. — Henry David Thoreau
Anyone serious about playing indoor, you should play outdoor. — Sean William Scott
We used to play a lot outdoors, not in leagues, but just in our spare time. — Steve Yzerman
I enjoyed growing up part of my life in Virginia Beach. We had the ocean and the beach and a beautiful landscape. We were outdoors all the time and we played outside. — Mark Ruffalo
It's very warm there, so we were outdoors all the time. The local people had programs for us year-round, where as kids we had the opportunity to play football, basketball, baseball, track and field - we just went from one sport to the next, year-round. — Rafer Johnson
I think outdoors has been my second home. My parents wouldn't be like, "Go and do a puzzle," they'd be like, "Hey, there's a forest across the street. You need to go play in it." — Serinda Swan
Play Hard Quotes
My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference. — Harry S. Truman
You can play hard. You can play aggressive. You can give 120% but if one guy is out of position then someone is running through the line of scrimmage and he is going to gain a bunch of yards. — Bill Belichick
Whatever pressure I feel all comes from me, from within. I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball. — Kendrick Lamar
Be yourself, be pleasant, play hard and have no regrets. — Jimmy Buffett
'Play the right way' means play unselfishly, respect each other's achievements, play hard, fulfill your role — Gregg Popovich
Don't play hard to get, play hard to forget. — Drake
There's no reason that young girls shouldn't feel like they can't smash people on the field. Nothing dirty. You want to keep it clean. You just want to play hard. Get your jersey dirty, shorts dirty, and just have fun out there. — Carli Lloyd
Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard. — Colin Powell
People have lost their faith that if they work hard, if they try to get ahead, if they play by the rules, then that will ultimately result in positive outcomes. — James David Vance
Play To Win Quotes
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
This is the greatest thing about sports - you play to win the game. Hello? You don't play to just play it. When you start telling me it doesn't matter, then retire, get out, because it matters. — Herman Edwards
No one can compare to Ronaldinho. I remember his plays, his dribbles. I remember him winning every title at the Camp Nou. He made history at Barca, he made history with Brazil and he's still making history. — Neymar
Play interests me very much," said Hermann: "but I am not in the position to sacrifice the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous. — Alexander Pushkin
Goals have never defined me as a player. What has defined me is my impact on the team. If that means passing or playing defense to win, I'll do it. — Mia Hamm
A good player works hard to win the game everyone else is playing. A great player creates a new game that favors their strengths and avoids their weaknesses. — James Clear
The turning point in my career came with the realization that Black should play to win instead of just steering for equality. — Bobby Fischer
The mindset of a champion is that I put myself in a certain situation to win, I don't play to lose, I dont prepare to lose, I hate second place and I definitely don't like silver. — Phil Heath
This is a business and everything happens for a reason. I'm going to just to play hard, try to play hard and do whatever it takes to win. — James Harden
The purpose of setting goals is to win the game. The purpose of building systems is to continue playing the game. — James Clear
I wish children could grow according to their natural pace: sleep when sleepy, wake up when rested, eat when hungry, cry when upset, play and explore without being unnecessarily interrupted; in other words, be allowed to grow and blossom as each was meant to. — Magda Gerber
So many people play smaller than their potential because they are blinded by the overwhelming nature of the problem and don’t realize that they themselves can come up with the solution and execute. — Tom Bilyeu
People want everything to come out of a drive thru window. They want it instant and they want it fast. I succumb to that, we all succumb to that. We're in it. That's the culture. So the enemy, the powers that be, the manipulators behind the scenes play to our natural weaknesses. — Alex Jones
If I wanted to play the violin, I had to work. Because anything that one wants to do really, and one loves doing, one must do everyday. It should be as easy to the artist and as natural as flying is to a bird. And you can’t imagine a bird saying well, I’m tired today, I’m not going to fly! — Yehudi Menuhin
Rock and roll by its nature is sexual. So girls playing rock and roll is saying to the world, "We own our sexuality." I think that pop music is sort of about "you can do what you want to me" kind of energy, while rock and roll is "I'm going to do what I want to you" kind of energy. — Joan Jett
No tin-hat brigade of goose-stepping vigilantes or bibble-babbling mob of blackguarding and corporation paid scoundrels will prevent the onward march of labor, or divert its purpose to play its natural and rational part in the development of the economic, political and social life of our nation. — John L. Lewis
Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to be satisfied even by the greatest license. — John Desmond Bernal
Each species on our planet plays a role in the healthy functioning of natural ecosystems, on which humans depend. — William H. Schlesinger
Power Play Quotes
We are reminded that, in the fleeting time we have on this Earth, what matters is not wealth, or status, or power, or fame, but rather how well we have loved and what small part we have played in making the lives of other people better. — Barack Obama
Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's OK to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless. — Magnus Carlsen
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words. — Victor Hugo
The Ego, however, is not who you really are. The ego is your self-image; it is your social mask; it is the role you are playing. Your social mask thrives on approval. It wants control, and it is sustained by power, because it lives in fear. — Deepak Chopra
North Korea continues to play the crazed, powerful weakling to good effect. Its foreign policy consists of being suspicious of everyone except the Chinese, who provide 84% of the country’s imports and buy 85% of its exports. — Tim Marshall
Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk. — Ethel Waters
Those who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, possess the power of kings. — Heraclitus
Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive — Chuck Berry
Here you have an incredibly ambitious, accomplished woman who comes up against some of the same problems that women in power come up against today. Cleopatra plays an oddly pivotal role in world history as well; in her lifetime, Alexandria is the center of the universe, Rome is still a backwater. — Stacy Schiff
There is no level playing field. Any time our society says that a powerful chemical company has the same right as a low income family that's living next door, that playing field is not level, is not fair. — Robert D Bullard
Fair Play Quotes
Fair is foul, and foul is fair, hover through fog and filthy air. — William Shakespeare
Oh, did you expect me to play fair?" Cupid laughed. "I am the god of love. I am never fair. — Rick Riordan
A common misperception of me is... that I am a tough, rough northerner, which I suppose I am really. But I'm pretty mild-mannered most of the time. It's the parts that you play I guess. I don't mind it. I'm not a tough guy. I'd like to act as a fair, easy-going, kind man at some point. — Sean Bean
No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office. — Gloria Steinem
We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square. — Michelle Obama
Fifa stands for discipline, respect, fair-play, not just on the field of play, but in our society as well. — Sepp Blatter
Play fair, be prepared for others to play dirty, and don't let them drag you into the mud. — Richard Branson
The mandate of financial fair play in Europe is for clubs to live within their means. — John W. Henry
Americans are fighters. We're tough, resourceful and creative, and if we have the chance to fight on a level playing field, where everyone pays a fair share and everyone has a real shot, then no one - no one can stop us. — Elizabeth Warren
Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us. — Eric Hoffer
Free Play Quotes
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will. — Jawaharlal Nehru
Oscar Wilde said that some things are too important to be taken seriously. Art is one of those things. Setting the bar low, especially to get started, frees you to play, explore, and test without attachment to results. — Rick Rubin
You've got to learn the footwork, the positioning, how to box out, how to pass, how to shoot your free throws. All these things are necessary, not to be the No. 1 player in the world, but maybe you can play against him. — Oscar Robertson
The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free. — Ray Manzarek
When you know that you are eternal you can play your true role in time. When you know you are divine you can become completely human. When you know you are one with God you are free to become absolutely yourself. — Mother Meera
One day humanity will play with law just as children play with disused objects, not in order to restore them to their canonical use but to free them from it for good. — Giorgio Agamben
All Citizens United did was to level the playing field for corporate speech. We now have, I think, the most free and open system we've had in modern times. — Mitch McConnell
All seasoned players know, or at least have felt, that when you are playing your best, you are much the same as in a state of meditation. You are free of tension and chatter. You are concentrating on one thing. It is the ideal condition for good golf. — Harvey Penick
I cannot face with comfort the idea of life without work; work and the free play of the imagination are for me the same thing, I take no pleasure in anything else. — Sigmund Freud
I'd bet Sony has some similar stuff up their sleeves they're just playing on the internet outrage for free PR. You're all being played! — Cliff Bleszinski
Stage Play Quotes
Who is it that loves and who that suffers? He alone stages a play with Himself; who exists save Him? The individual suffers because he perceives duality. It is duality which causes all sorrow and grief. Find the One everywhere and in everything and there will be an end to pain and suffering. — Anandamayi Ma
The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery. — Erik Erikson
It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing. — William Shakespeare
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages. — William Shakespeare
Of all the preaching in the world, I hate that preaching which tends to make the hearers laugh, or to move their minds with tickling levity and affect them as stage plays used to, instead of affecting them with a holy reverence for the name of God. — Richard Baxter
If Shakespeare can compare all of life to a stage, maybe it's not odd to believe that part of the play can take place on a basketball court. — Bill Russell
The world of chemical reactions is like a stage, on which scene after scene is ceaselessly played. The actors on it are the elements. — Clemens Winkler
I'm probably never happier than when I'm by myself in the water. What I've worked and sacrificed for is not to be on stage playing music but to surf in some secluded place. It's a grounding element. Waves don't care who you are. — Eddie Vedder
When you see what you're here for, the world begins to mirror your purpose in a magical way. It's almost as if you suddenly find yourself on a stage in a play that was written expressly for you. — Betty Sue Flowers
All this cuddling and kissing on stage these days, well it's all right in football when someone scores a goal, but not when you're playing darts. — Eric Bristow
Playback Quotes
As so much music is listened to via MP3 download, many will never experience the joy of analog playback, and for them, I feel sorry. They are missing out. — Henry Rollins
I've been in enough movies to know that when you're on the set and you start shooting, you're looking at playback and you get a sense of what it's going to be like. — Mark Wahlberg
When I'm shooting a film, I don't look at playback. I don't go and do a scene and then hurry up and watch what I just did. I never look at it so I haven't seen any of it. — Andre Benjamin
I don't like to watch playback. But being on the set, watching the way the camera is being moved and the way the light is being used, you do get an idea of it. — Christopher Eccleston
You always do that with movie musicals. You prerecord and then you lip-synch to playback. — Julie Andrews
I really enjoyed it - being involved in watching rushes and playback [in "The Invisible Woman"]. Ralph [Fiennes] was very open to my input, I think knowing that he couldn't always be there 100 percent, that he had dual aims with directing and acting. — Felicity Jones
When it comes to e-book playback devices and software, I have always thought that the emphasis on ergonomic concerns as a tipping point for the end-user population was misplaced. — Tom Peters
MP3 players and flash memory devices are good for data storage and playback of music and digital talking books, but they offer little or nothing in the way of visual presentation of information and communication. — Tom Peters
We didn't have the time to watch playback all the time so I depended on my team [All We Had]. — Katie Holmes
A big thing for me is trusting the director, so I don't need to watch playback. I feel like the director is gonna tell me whether it's right or not. — Juno Temple
I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano. — Norman Wisdom
If you wish to seduce an angel, you must play the part of a devil. — Eliphas Levi
Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don't have a dime in your pocket. — Lee Trevino
Great players inspire you. The best player I played with was Gervi (Gervinho) — Eden Hazard
Forget your opponents; always play against par. — Sam Snead
In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play. — Friedrich Nietzsche
What I do is play soccer, which is what I like. — Lionel Messi
When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up. — Rodney Dangerfield
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