1,884 Quotes About Play

Time does not play dice.

Consider this - when you ask a child to draw you a picture, or tell you a story, they never refuse because they 'aren't creative.' We just learn as we get older whether we're allowed to call ourselves the anymore because we're trained only to invest time in what we are 'good at.' And its a tragedy - when we can't create purely for the joy it brings us. Don't be afraid to play, Fionn. It's good for the soul.

Playgrounds need kids as much as kids need playgrounds.

Enjoy the game, as it does not matter if you win or lose.

What Wittgenstein points the way toward here is the possibility of appreciating how (what we, under the pressure of certain philosophical assumptions, are prone to conceive of as) our 'merely' animal capacities are not merely animal. Even those capacities that we are inclined to view as beloning to our 'merely' animal being - capacities such as walking, eating, drinking, and playing - come to be transformed through and through in the lives of the sorts of creatures we are: ones who speak.

Every level of our being calls for play and danger.

Take me not for a dullard, My Lord. She has no baggage.

I want a good story, with a beginning, middle and end.

Be liked and you will never want.