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 Copy Share Image
A major criterion for judging the anxiety level of any society is the loss of its capacity to be playful. — Edwin H Friedman Copy Share Image
The human need to play is a powerful one. When we ignore it, we feel there is something missing in our lives. — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
I'm always trying to have a good time on set because that's when things happen. That's when you're playful. — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
“It may well turn out that one of the most important effects of open source’s success will be to teach us that… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
If animals play, this is because play is useful in the struggle for survival; because play practices and so perfects the skills… — Susanna Miller Copy Share Image
Hullraisers' and 'Little Mon' both have a joyful, playful tone and you believe that these women really are friends. — Lucy Beaumont Copy Share Image
The opposite of play isn’t work. It’s depression. To play is to act out and be willful, exultant and committed as if… — Brian Sutton-Smith Copy Share Image
Play seems to be one of the first activities inhibited by the presence of an observer until a group becomes well habituated.… — Dian Fossey Copy Share Image
To play is to listen to the imperative inner force that wants to take form and be acted out without reason. It… — Michele Cassou Copy Share Image
“This sort of information gathering is precisely what we call play. And the important function of play is thus revealed: it permits… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Work, as we usually think of it, is energy expended for a further end in view; play is energy expended for its… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
'Fantastic' is self-explanatory, you know? And the 'Negrito' is a way to open up blackness to everyone - you know, make it… — Fantastic Negrito Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Freud said that life is all about being able to love and to work. And I think it is about those things.… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think the most important thing to realize about play is that it's this thing that's in stuff, it's not in you. — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
The whole idea of play is in finding, acknowledging, and then working with the natural constraints and limitations that you find in… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
Play is this process of operating the world, of manipulating things. It's related to experimentation, and it's related to pleasure, but not… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
To be aware how fruitful the playful mood can be is to be immune to the propaganda of the alienated, which extols… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel like I'm lacking a playfulness. I envy guys who are consistently able to maintain a playful, optimistic perspective on… — Eric Dane Copy Share Image
“Playborhood, which documents these efforts, and more, as well as his overarching philosophy.8 I” — Julie Lythcott-Haims Copy Share Image
Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Play enables us to rearrange our capacities and our very identity so that they can be used in unforeseen ways — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
“In other words, a playful mindset into adulthood protects our bodies and minds in a myriad of ways and gives us more… — Gad Saad Copy Share Image
“The heart of a child is soooo beautiful. It doesn’t come with any, how do you say, preconceptions? So it can be… — Jay Ebben Copy Share Image
Now it is characteristic of play that one plays without reason and there must be no reason for it. Play is its… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
I'd say an ideal wardrobe should have a mix of high-fashion gowns, clothes that spell 'boho chic,' and at least a few… — Raashi Khanna Copy Share Image
When the playful me shows up, I am ready to be a serious learner … a culture of playfulness is closely related… — Rosemary Sutcliff Copy Share Image
I am extremely intentional in making the environment around me playful and loving. I have great skill in that area. — Patch Adams Copy Share Image
“The truth is that play seems to be one of the most advanced methods nature has invented to allow a complex brain… — Stuart Brown Copy Share Image
Park Hyung Sik is like Ahn Min Hyuk in that he is very playful and bright. Sometimes I wondered if it was… — Park Bo-young Copy Share Image
The mere existence of 'Buffy' proves the declinists wrong about one thing: Hollywood commercialism can produce great art. Complex and evolving characters.… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
“Don’t be playful when I’m feeling emotional,” I ordered. To this, he strangely replied, “You get I’m a badass.” “Hard to miss,… — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
Have I ever hated anyone? Higuain - but he surprised me after getting to know him. No. 9s are selfish, they do… — Giorgio Chiellini Copy Share Image
When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to listen to a CD over and over before you really get it, but as soon as I heard… — Gayle King Copy Share Image
To make a movie charming, you have to be playful on all levels and open to ideas, and you have to have… — Lasse Hallstrom Copy Share Image
My plan for the online version of 'Famous Monsters' is to become an online 'uncle' to an entire group of people who… — Harry Knowles Copy Share Image
We want to remember to be playful! We're here in this wonderful and incredible world! Like, the grand architect of the universe… — Giancarlo Esposito Copy Share Image
