Action Quote by Simon McBurney

“The work equalises the emotions, and enables the two submerged to surface in series of unpredictable configurations. Work is the constant carnival; words, the…

— Gillian Rose

The essence of play is that the sequence of actions is fluid and scattered.

— Robin Marantz Henig

The whole idea of play is in finding, acknowledging, and then working with the natural constraints and limitations that you find in the world.

— Ian Bogost

The first steps of a creative act are like groping in the dark: random and chaotic, feverish and fearful, a lot of busy-ness with…

— Twyla Tharp

When you're following your energy and doing what you want all the time, the distinction between work and play dissolves.

— Shakti Gawain

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

— Katie Salen

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

— Northrop Frye

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

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

— Mary Caroline Richards

But, in addition, there is, all through the tragedy, a constant alternation of rises and falls in this tension or in the emotional pitch…

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

— Johan Huizinga

By obtaining a sense of its place in the unfolding drama of life, set in an ecological theatre, so we can understand why it…

— Simon Conway Morris