Play Quotes
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Play quotes give us lots of reasons to make time in every day to play. Give yourself permission to play and have fun. We are all children at heart who long to push our responsibilities aside...
long enough to goof off for a day. Guess what? You have the power to make recess mandatory. Being playful reduces stress and stimulates creativity. If you think taking time to play is wasting time, study these quotes. You will learn it is essential to enjoy life. Play stimulates innovation and allows the highest intelligence of humankind to unfold. The question is not “Should you play?” it is “Are you playing enough?” Create a beautiful day and take plenty of time to play! The goal is making your work your play. Doing what you love means you’ll never work a day in your life. Doesn’t that sound like fun?
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People who play increase their social intelligence as well as their creative problem solving abilities. Making new connections holds the key. So lighten up and dare to practice playing with imagined possibilities!
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Play provides the emotional spark which activates our attention, problem solving and behavior response systems so we gain the skills necessary for cooperation, co-creativity, altruism and understanding.
Carla Hannaford - Smart Moves: Why Learning Is Not All In Your Head
When we play, dopamine is released which induces elation, excitement, and orchestrates nerve net development and alignment all over the brain. When we are able to take in our fill of sensory stimuli, process and integrate it with richly developed base patterns, and express new insights in a creative way, both physically and verbally, we are then truly at play.
Carla Hannaford - Smart Moves: Why Learning Is Not All In Your Head
The debt we owe to play of imagination is incalculable.
Carl Jung Tweet this Quote!
When we engage in what we are naturally suited to do, our work takes on the quality of play and it is play that stimulates creativity.
Linda Naiman
When we treat children's play as seriously as it deserves, we are helping them feel the joy that's to be found in the creative spirit. It's the things we play with and the people who help us play that make a great difference in our lives.
Fred Rogers
Play brings joy. And it's vital for problem solving, creativity and relationships.
Margarita Tartakovsky Tweet this Quote!
The human urge to create comes from the play impulse.
Carla Hannaford - Smart Moves: Why Learning Is Not All In Your Head Tweet this Quote!
As adults we have quite a bit of work to do, and play seems to function as a protective mechanism against the costs of this work; a buffer against stress, a support during life transitions, a means of forming bonds and alliances, a jump start for creativity and problem-solving.
Christine Caldwell
Play is one of the highest spiritual forms of being. When we're in that state, we get lost in ourselves, which allows the mind to receive the message of the spirit.
Ellie Katz
Playology is about waking up our senses, infusing our organs of seeing, hearing, smelling, touching, tasting - and the higher cognitive senses as well, with the spirit of play. Play ignites creativity and spontaneity. Playing together leads to trust and cooperation.
Ellie Katz
To play is to yield oneself to a kind of magic.
Hugo Rahner Tweet this Quote!
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of ones chosen form.
Stephen Nachmanovitch Tweet this Quote!
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
John Cleese Tweet this Quote!
The true object of all human life is play.
G. K. Chesterton Tweet this Quote!
Play is the highest form of research.
Albert Einstein Tweet this Quote!
It's not that you won or lost…but how you played the game.
Grantland Rice Tweet this Quote!
Almost all creativity involves purposeful play.
Abraham Maslow Tweet this Quote!
Can you imagine experiencing the world as a great sandbox given for us to play in like we did as children? As we play, we can also open ourselves to the exploration of our edges, always creating new adventures of self-exploration as we let go of old out-dated beliefs about ourselves.
Judith-Annette Milburn
Do not…keep children to their studies by compulsion but by play.
Plato Tweet this Quote!
In the true man there is a child concealed – who wants to play.
Friedrich Nietzsche Tweet this Quote!
It is a happy talent to know how to play.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Tweet this Quote!
It is essential to our well-being, and to our lives, that we play and enjoy life.
Marcia Wieder Tweet this Quote!
Life is playfulness…We need to play so that we can rediscover the magic all around us.
Flora Colao Tweet this Quote!
Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
Heraclitus Tweet this Quote!
Play has been man's most useful preoccupation.
Frank Caplan Tweet this Quote!
Play is our brain's favorite way of learning.
Dianne Ackerman Tweet this Quote!
Play is the exultation of the possible.
Martin Buber Tweet this Quote!
Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.
Joseph Chilton Pierce Tweet this Quote!
Play keeps us fit physically and mentally.
Stuart Brown Tweet this Quote!
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 Capacchione
Play produces feelings of pleasure which help you escape from two major creativity killers – stress and self-consciousness.
Jordan Ayan
Play will never kill you, work will. I have never worked a day in my life.
Dr. Leila Denmark , was America's oldest practicing physician at 103 Tweet this Quote!
Serious play is not an oxymoron; it is the essence of innovation.
Michael Schrage Tweet this Quote!
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with objects it loves.
Carl Jung
We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing.
Charles Schaefer
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
George Bernard Shaw Tweet this Quote!
We live in an ironic society where even play is turned into work. But the highest existence is not work; the highest level of existence is play.
Conrad Hyers
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
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