Becomes Quote by Dian Fossey

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

I get the impression sometimes that a play arrives in a sequence of events that I have no control over.

— Tom Stoppard

I think the most important way to understand play is that it's this property that's in things. Like there's play in a mechanism. For…

— Ian Bogost

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

— Katie Salen

Play exists for its own sake. Play is for the moment; it is not hurried, even when the pace is fast and timing seems…

— Margaret Guenther

“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

When you're in a play, you never really have a sense of what an audience is experiencing. The experience of doing a play is…

— Kate Arrington

When we play, we sense no limitations. In fact, when we are playing, we are usually unaware of ourselves. Self-observation goes out the window.…

— Lenore Terr

The spirit of playful competition is, as a social impulse, older than culture itself and pervades all life like a veritable ferment. Ritual grew…

— Johan Huizinga

I don't really know what playing is. There's a way to do it correctly, but it eludes me. I think getting in front of…

— John Maus