Quote by Bill Burnett

Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.

— Evan Esar

“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 too serious.”

— Ken Breniman

“To be in “play” in this way is one of our concerns to be able to escape self-conscious, intentional activity for comfortable, often purposeless…

— Fernando Flores

“To play is, in some sense, actively to make your own fun. Players are entertaining themselves, whether the play is peekaboo, cards, tennis, or…

— D. Brent Laytham

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

— Michele Cassou

Play is this process of operating the world, of manipulating things. It's related to experimentation, and it's related to pleasure, but not defined by…

— Ian Bogost

Play is a subset of voluntary behaviour involving a selective mechanism which reverses the usual contingencies of power so as to permit the subject…

— Brian Sutton-Smith

“The opposite of play is not work—the opposite of play is depression.” He explains, “Respecting our biologically programmed need for play can transform work.…

— Brené Brown

Play: It is an an activity which proceeds within certain limits of time and space, in a visible order, according to rules freely accepted,…

— Johan Huizinga

Play is the way that human beings learn about the world. That's how we discover how things work.

— Katie Salen

Play is the production of fun; entertainment is the consumption of fun.

— Charles Eisenstein

“Then what is the relationship between something that you do and the state of joy? You will enjoy any activity in which you are…

— Eckhart Tolle