Essence Quote by John Cleese

Playful arising is authorized by both risk and trust in the process and in oneself. To be truly playful and improvisational one must not…

— Joshua L. Goldberg

A playful mind is inquisitive, and learning is fun. If you indulge your natural curiosity and retain a sense of fun in new experience,…

— Bill Watterson

“To be playful is not to be trivial or frivolous, or to act as if nothing of consequence will happen. On the contrary, when…

— James Carse

We come to recognize that playfulness, as a philosophical stance, can be very serious indeed; and moreover, that it possesses an unfailing capacity to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Play is an expression of God's presence in the world; one clear sign of God's absence in society is the absence of playfulness and…

— Michael Yaconelli

Having fun is the most important thing. Because when you have fun, you don't even think. You react. You just play hard.

— Nelson Agholor

Sometimes I feel like I'm lacking a playfulness. I envy guys who are consistently able to maintain a playful, optimistic perspective on things.

— Eric Dane

In using the terms play and playfulness, I do not intend to suggest any lack of seriousness; quite the contrary. Anyone who has watched…

— Richard Hofstadter

There is a vast difference between games and play. Play is played for fun, but games are deadly serious and you do not play…

— Maurice Baring

There's always a sense of playfulness in terms of what I do for a living.

— William Fichtner

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

Playing and fun are not the same thing, though when we grow up we may forget that and find ourselves mixing up playing with…

— Lynda Barry