Play cannot be defined, because in play all definitions slither, dance, combine, break apart, and recombine. — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
“using playful cleverness to achieve a goal.” Hacking away at something in small chunks or reprogramming bits and pieces of the media… — Mitch Joel Copy Share Image
“Play is primal. It’s not a frivolous pastime—it’s a radical act of reclaiming joy and creativity in a world that often feels… — Ken Breniman Copy Share Image
Playful arising is authorized by both risk and trust in the process and in oneself. To be truly playful and improvisational one… — Joshua L. Goldberg Copy Share Image
I think my music is experimental, playful, challenging, focused, fun. I don't want it to be thought of as trying to appeal… — Julia Holter Copy Share Image
I like a director that encourages me to be playful. I don't really like being restricted or controlled by a director. — Julia Stiles Copy Share Image
When I write a song, the music comes from my spirit, which is very playful and optimistic, but then the lyrics come… — Mark Foster Copy Share Image
The phrase 'fake news' sounds too playful, too much like a schoolchild faking illness to get out of a test. — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
I thought if I can do something more playful and light like my play BEYOND THERAPY, it might be a money maker.… — Christopher Durang Copy Share Image
“Playful,” Amanda repeated, shaking her head. The idea contradicted all her long-held ideas of romance and sex. One did not “play” in… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“Play is an expression of God's presence in the world; one clear sign of God's absence in society is the absence of… — Michael Yaconelli Copy Share Image
People look at me as sort of a diplomat for Turkey, which by nature, I'm not; I don't want to be. It's… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Play exists for its own sake. Play is for the moment; it is not hurried, even when the pace is fast and… — Margaret Guenther Copy Share Image
Work and play can be the same. When you are following your energy and doing what you want to do all the… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
“Gabby couldn't believe what he had just said. Her mouth gaped open and a flirty smile came over her. She slowly peeled… — J.B. McGee Copy Share Image
Sacred play is anything that takes you into that right hemisphere of your brain. It turns out that this move away from… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
For humans and animals alike, truly vigorous, wholehearted, spontaneous play is something of a biological frill. — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
“I am so tired. I have grown old from being serious. I have grown ill from being serious. I want to laugh… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“All these activities are forms of adult play that also serve as ceremonial acts of remembering—who we are, where we came from,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
“Being imaginative and playful doesn’t make you any less of an adult,” Gabriel said gently. “It only makes you a more interesting… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
I was a very shy kid. Very shy. But I started doing theatre when I was six years old, and that really… — Sigrid Copy Share Image
The emptiness of play is when there is no self present. There is no one playing - there is only play itself… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I want to be the first person to animate bags - everything done for handbags bores me to tears - I want… — Peter Marino Copy Share Image
Normally we think of play as the opposite of work. Work is the thing you have to do, and then there's play,… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
We wanted the freedom to be playful, to experiment and do what we felt like doing, but we were heavily affected by… — Morten Harket Copy Share Image
I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The game was sinful, But she was more playful. She needs to be taught, With every drop of the wax dot.” — Delicious David Copy Share Image
Captain Yoo Si Jin is most similar to me. He takes his job very seriously, but in his free time, he's playful. — Song Joong-ki Copy Share Image
“Seriousness is too boring to the playful human condition. A heart of stone that has a long face can never express love.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The perfect state, the summum bonum, is Play. In play, life expresses itself in its fullness. God's life is play. Adam fell… — Jakob Bohme Copy Share Image
Our lives depend on recognizing that human cloning, like all forms of 'playing God,' is a moral, life-promoting endeavor. — Alex Epstein Copy Share Image
We study play because life is crap. Life is crap, and it’s full of pain and suffering, and the only thing that… — Brian Sutton-Smith Copy Share Image
Art originates in play - in improvisation, experiment, and fantasy; it remains forever, in its deepest instincts, playful and spontaneous, an exercise… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The secret of using makeup for fashion is to have fun with it. When people see that you are playful, that's attractive.… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Playing God is actually the highest expression of human nature. The urges to improve ourselves, to master our environment, and to set… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
Play is a subset of voluntary behaviour involving a selective mechanism which reverses the usual contingencies of power so as to permit… — Brian Sutton-Smith Copy Share Image
Couples are often more fun and playful in the early stages of a relationship. However, this playful attitude can sometimes be forgotten… — Anne Nwakama Copy Share Image
A playful mind is inquisitive, and learning is fun. If you indulge your natural curiosity and retain a sense of fun in… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
