Play

“ 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.”

“Whoever wants to understand much must play much.”

“Those who play rarely become brittle in the face of stress or lose the healing capacity for humor.”

“The opposite of play is not work. It’s depression.”

The rules are: the more playful we get, the more we can get rid of the rules.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age

“Children learn as they play. Most importantly, in play children learn how to learn.”

“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct.”

“Almost all creativity involves purposeful play.”

“Play is our brain’s favorite way of learning.”

“It is a happy talent to know how to play.”

“We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing.”

“Play is the beginning of knowledge.”

“Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.”

“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”

“Play is often talked about as if it was a relief from serious learning, but for children, play is really the work of childhood”

Play is our brain’s favorite way of learning.

Necessity may be the mother of invention but play is certainly the father.

Play is the highest form of research.

Almost all creativity involves purposeful play.

Every day you play with the light of the universe

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

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.

We all need empty hours in our lives or we will have no time to create or dream.

All meaningful, organic, and foundational learning is at heart playful and ludic.

Life is playfulness. We need play so that we can rediscover the magical around us.

“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.”