“ The real secret of life is to be completely engaged with what you are doing here and now. And instead of calling it work, calling it play.”
Alan watts
“Whoever wants to understand much must play much.”
Gottfried Benn
“Those who play rarely become brittle in the face of stress or lose the healing capacity for humor.”
Stuart Brown, MD
“The opposite of play is not work. It’s depression.”
Brian Sutton-Smith
The rules are: the more playful we get, the more we can get rid of the rules.
Hans Zimmer
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age
Thomas H. Huxley.
“Children learn as they play. Most importantly, in play children learn how to learn.”
O. Fred Donaldson
“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct.”
Carl Jung
“Almost all creativity involves purposeful play.”
Abraham Maslow
“Play is our brain’s favorite way of learning.”
Diane Ackerman
“It is a happy talent to know how to play.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing.”
Charles Schaefer
“Play is the beginning of knowledge.”
George Dorsey
“Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.”
Mark Twain
“All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players” — Shakespeare
Play keeps us vital and alive. It gives us an enthusiasm for life that is irreplaceable. Without it, life just doesn’t taste good”
Lucia Capocchione
“Play is often talked about as if it was a relief from serious learning, but for children, play is really the work of childhood”
Fred Rogers
Play is our brain’s favorite way of learning.
Diane Ackerman
Necessity may be the mother of invention but play is certainly the father.
Roger Van oech
Play is the highest form of research.
Albert Einstein
Almost all creativity involves purposeful play.
Henri Matisse
Every day you play with the light of the universe
Pablo Neruda
You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
Maya Angelou
A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who does not play has lost forever the child who lived in him.
Pablo Neruda
We all need empty hours in our lives or we will have no time to create or dream.
Robert Coles
All meaningful, organic, and foundational learning is at heart playful and ludic.
Marcelo Suárez-Orozco
Life is playfulness. We need play so that we can rediscover the magical around us.
Flora Colao
“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.”
D.W. Winnicott
“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.”
Karl Groos
“Creative people are curious, flexible, persistent, and independent with a tremendous spirit of adventure and a love of play.”
Henri Matisse
“Almost all creativity involves purposeful play.”
Abraham Maslow
“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.”
Sir Isaac Newton