Alone Quote by Tom Chatfield

Decades of research has shown that play is crucial to physical, intellectual, and social-emotiona l development at all ages. This is especially true of…

— David Elkind

When you master role-playing [gaming], you become immersed in an activity that is peerless among leisure-time pursuits.

— Gary Gygax

If you watch young children play, you will notice that they create games, characters, situations, whole worlds in which they immerse themselves with intense…

— Daniel Greenberg

Our brain comes hard-wired with an urge to play, one that hurls us into sociability. A child's play both demands and creates its own…

— Daniel Goleman

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

No one stopped me from playing when I was alone, but there were times when I wasn't able to, though I wanted to... There…

— Lynda Barry

Doing a play is so fulfilling. Words cannot describe how I feel when I finish doing a play.

— Rutina Wesley

“As I worked with hundreds of gamers, it became apparent to me that many of these kids were looking for some sort of deeper…

— Nicholas Kardaras

When you come to actually act, it's a game. It may be a very serious game, but it's still a game. If you lose…

— Michael Sheen

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really…

— Fred Rogers

Play allows us to maintain curiosity while learning.

— Sarah Lewis

There is a good deal of excellent research on child's play. It has shown conclusively that through play, with the freedom of action it…

— Leo Buscaglia