Becoming Quote by Stephen Nachmanovitch

Play enables us to rearrange our capacities and our very identity so that they can be used in unforeseen ways

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

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

— Katie Salen

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

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

Play stimulates the parts of the brain involved in both careful, logical reasoning and carefree, unbound exploration.

— Greg McKeown

One way to think about play, is as the process of finding new combinations for known things--combinations that may yield new formsof expression, new…

— Fred Rogers

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

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 more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play.

— Anonymous

Play is the state of mind that we can use in our creative process to our advantage.

— Jessica Walsh

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

When you're doing a play, you don't always have a practical world that you're working off of. You have to create it for yourself.

— Ben Schnetzer