A Collection of PLAYful Quotes

Posted on Apr 17th, 2008 by

"Some cultures operate from the premise that if people are laughing, having fun, or enjoying their work, then it cannot be work and should be stopped. However, an observer probably would not find much creative thinking going on when fun or play are absent." ~ Ian Rose

"Play will be to the 21st century what work was to the last three hundred years of industrial society – our dominant way of knowing, doing and creating value" ~ Pat Kane

"Play is serious business. At stake for us are the ways we socialize and teach future generations of scientists, inventors, artists, explorers, and other individuals who will shape the work in which we live. It is safe to say that humans, as a species, have always had a concept of play. But only recently has play begun getting the serious attention it deserves as a source of discovery." ~ Arthur Molella

"But how can we speak of mere play, when we know that it is precisely play and play alone, which of all man’s states and conditions is the one which makes him whole and unfolds both sides of his nature at once?" ~ Friedrich von Shiller

"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

"When you're following your energy and doing what you want all the time, the distinction between work and play dissolves." ~ Shakti Gawain

"What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years." ~ Stephen B. Leacock

"The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play." ~ Arnold Toynbee

"When we engage in what we are naturally suited to do, our work takes on the quality of play and it is play that stimulates creativity. So play with your intuition." ~ Linda Naiman

"It is only in playing that the individual is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self."
~ Donald Winnicott

"It is a happy talent to know how to play." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one." ~ Anthony J. DeAngelo

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

"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation." ~ Plato

"In Hindu philosophy the whole creation is regarded as the Vishnu Lila, the play of Vishnu. Lila means dance or play. Also in Hindu philosophy, they call the world illusion; and in Latin the root of the word illusion is ludere, to play." ~ Alan Watts

"We may play with and pass on a garden, possessing one is an illusion.
Gardeners must dance with feedback, play with results, turn as they learn.
Some gardeners don't grow old and stop playing; they stop playing and grow old.
Nature's playfulness is a gardener's delight.
A garden is a sporting field, an area for play."
~ Michael P. Garofalo

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