Art Quote by Stephen Nachmanovitch

“Unfortunately, many people find the only challenges they can respond to are violence, gambling, random sex, or drugs. Some of these experiences can be…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The misuse of extrinsic rewards, so common in business, impedes creativity, stifles personal satisfaction and turns play into work.

— Daniel H. Pink

“Rewards of the Self Finally, there are the variable rewards we seek for a more personal form of gratification. We are driven to conquer…

— Nir Eyal

The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.

— Arnold Palmer

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

“We don’t need occasions to enjoy…. We can steal moments of enjoyment even when we are posed with extreme challenges on life…..”

— Arun Prabhu- aradhya

We think we want enjoyment, and that enjoyment is incompatible with work, and somehow we have to import the pleasure into these miserable experiences.…

— Ian Bogost

I can't think of anything more rewarding than being able to express yourself to others through painting. Exercising the imagination, experimenting with talents, being…

— Bob Ross

It may be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their…

— Winston Churchill

The reward is in doing, but doing without expecting anything...doing unselfishly.

— Anonymous

“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 isn't you being clever, or finding a trick, or finding a way of covering over your own misery, or persuading someone to do…

— Ian Bogost