Hansei

“It is in playing, and only in playing, that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self.”

“The very existence of youth is due in part to the necessity for play; the animal does not play because he is young, he has a period of youth because he must play.”

“Creative people are curious, flexible, persistent, and independent with a tremendous spirit of adventure and a love of play.”

“Almost all creativity involves purposeful play.”

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”

If I had an hour to save the world, I’d spend 59 minutes defining the problem and one minute resolving it.