Playful Quotes

If you are not playful you are not alive.

— David Hockney

The true object of human life is play.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Play is the highest form of research.

— Albert Einstein

“Play is our brain's favorite way of learning”

— Diane Ackerman

Play doesn't have to be the opposite of work.

— Jill Vialet

I'm cocky. It's different. Cocky is playful.

— Adam Levine

She is deranged, but so so playful.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“All play means something.”

— Johan Huizinga

Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

The rules are: The more playful we get, the more we can get rid of the rules.

— Hans Zimmer

True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The opposite of play is not work—the opposite of play is depression.

— Anonymous

I think play must have been invented so we wouldn't go mad thinking about certain things.

— Audrey Niffenegger

I'm a singer and a writer first. I started to rap by accident, being playful.

— Kesha

She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.

— Jane Austen

Put a picture of yourself as a child in view somewhere, to remind yourself to be playful.

— Alexandra Stoddard

For since most of our living is unconscious, play is like matchstrokes in the void, bringing into light the structures we behave…

— Mary Caroline Richards

A major criterion for judging the anxiety level of any society is the loss of its capacity to be playful.

— Edwin H Friedman

My preference is for people who come to rehearsal and get into the ring. I like a muscular actor who's playful.

— Joe Mantello

I think this dichotomy or opposition between work and play, between leisure and serious stuff, is definitely a bad way of thinking…

— Ian Bogost

Even Nature is observed to have her playful moods or aspects, of which man sometimes seems to be the sport.

— Henry David Thoreau

“He'd been baiting me, yes, but there was more. He'd been almost…playful. It was tantamount to being rushed by a lion, and…

— Nenia Campbell

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

— Mark Twain

Those of us who were on 'Twin Peaks' can very easily make fun of it, but we get along really well, and…

— Sheryl Lee

It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Freud said that life is all about being able to love and to work. And I think it is about those things.…

— Alan Alda

“Our point of departure must be the conception of an almost childlike play-sense expressing itself in various play-forms, some serious, some playful,…

— Johan Huizinga

Work, as we usually think of it, is energy expended for a further end in view; play is energy expended for its…

— Northrop Frye

'Fantastic' is self-explanatory, you know? And the 'Negrito' is a way to open up blackness to everyone - you know, make it…

— Fantastic Negrito

To play is to listen to the imperative inner force that wants to take form and be acted out without reason. It…

— Michele Cassou

“This sort of information gathering is precisely what we call play. And the important function of play is thus revealed: it permits…

— Carl Sagan

Play seems to be one of the first activities inhibited by the presence of an observer until a group becomes well habituated.…

— Dian Fossey

“Art is the cutting edge of the mind, the perpetual out-reaching of thought into the unknown, the act in which thought eternally…

— R. G. Collingwood

All of the elements of the comic way tend to spread to others, insinuating joy where it was previously absent. Conversation has…

— Joseph Rusling Meeker

“Ideally play is joyful and childlike, a physically and psychologically healthy exercise for both people and dogs. Psychologists and spiritual counselors advise…

— Patricia B. McConnell

“Keep things light and fun by throwing in a joke or two every now and then or being playful in your messages.…

— Strategic Lothario

I've been really into a light, bright playfulness that's been missing. I looked at these '60s and '70s photos of Jackie O.…

— Christian Siriano

“AUGUST 12 • Everyone suddenly burst out singing. — Siegfried Sassoon The child within us wants to come out and play. The…

— Anonymous

But what is work and what is not work? Is it work to dig, to carpenter, to plant trees, to fell trees,…

— George Orwell

“Nataraja at play among the stars and in the atoms. But also,” he added, “also at play within every living thing, every…

— Aldous Huxley