Awakening Quote by Viola Spolin

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

— Greg McKeown

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

— Jessica Walsh

Active play contributes to strong bones and adventurous play is vital for mental and emotional development.

— Michaela Strachan

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

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

— Katie Salen

Natural play strengthens children's self-confidence and arouses their senses-their awareness of the world and all that moves in it, seen and unseen.

— Richard Louv

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

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

Play, Incorporating Animistic and Magical Thinking Is Important Because It: Fosters the healthy, creative and emotional growth of a child; Forms the best foundation…

— Rachel Carson

When the spirit of child's play enters into the creative process, it's a wonderful force and something to be nurtured.

— Joni Mitchell

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

Play reaches the habits most needed for intellectual growth.

— Bruno Bettelheim

Play with heart; Play with passion; Play within yourself; Have fun; Play like a champion.

— Jim Tressel