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Play energizes us and enlivens us. It eases our burdens. It renews our natural sense of optimism and opens us up to new possibilities.
Stuart Brown, MD Contemporary American psychiatrist

It is a happy talent to know how to play.

Ralph Waldo Emerson American writer 18031882
Life must be lived as play.

Plato Greek philosopher 427347 BC
In our play we reveal what kind of people we are.

Ovid Roman poet 43 BC17 or 18 AD
Play is our brain's favorite way of learning.

Diane Ackerman Contemporary American author
Culture arises and unfolds in and as play.

Johan Huizinga Dutch historian 18721945
Almost all creativity involves purposeful play.

Abraham Maslow American psychologist 19081970
Whoever wants to understand much must play much.

Gottfried Benn German physician 18861956
Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.
Joseph Chilton Pearce Contemporary American scholar
The true object of all human life is play.

G. K. Chesterton British author 18741936
Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning.

Fred Rogers American television personality 19282003
A child loves his play, not because its easy, but because its hard.
Benjamin Spock American pediatrician 19031998
Play fosters belonging and encourages cooperation.

Play has been mans most useful preoccupation.

Frank Caplan Contemporary American author 19111988
To the art of working well a civilized race would add the art of playing well.
George Santayana American philosopher 18631952
People tend to forget that play is serious.

David Hockney Contemporary British painter
Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity.
Kay Redfield Jamison Contemporary American professor of psychiatry
Do notkeep children to their studies by compulsion but by play.

Deep meaning lies often in childish play.

Johann Friedrich von Schiller German poet 17591805
Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
Heraclitus Greek philosopher 535475 BC
Surely all Gods peoplelike to play.

John Muir American naturalist 18381914
Children at play are not playing about. Their games should be seen as their most serious minded activity.
Michel de Montaigne French essayist 15331592
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.
Roger von Oech Contemporary American creativity guru
Play keeps us fit physically and mentally.

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct.
Carl Jung Swiss psychoanalyst 18751961
In play a child always behaves beyond his average age, above his daily behavior. In play it is as though he were a head taller than himself.
Lev Vygotsky Russian psychologist 18961934
Creative people are curious, flexible, persistent, and independent with a tremendous spirit of adventure and a love of play.
Henri Matisse French painter 18691954
The opposite of play is not work. Its depression.

Brian Sutton-Smith Contemporary American folklorist
Play is training for the unexpected.

Marc Bekoff Contemporary American biologist
Creative play is like a spring that bubbles up from deep within a child.
Joan Almon Contemporary American educator
Children learn as they play. Most importantly, in play children learn how to learn.
O. Fred Donaldson Contemporary American martial arts master
Human beings need pleasure the way they need vitamins.

Lionel Tiger Contemporary Canadian anthropologist
Those who play rarely become brittle in the face of stress or lose the healing capacity for humor.
When children pretend, theyre using their imaginations to move beyond the bounds of reality. A stick can be a magic wand. A sock can be a puppet. A small child can be a superhero.
Fred Rogers American childrens television host 19282003
The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

Carl Jung Swiss psychoanalyst 18751961
In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher 18441900
Play is hard to maintain as you get older. You get less playful. You shouldnt, of course.
Richard Feynman American physicist 19181988
Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Michael Jordan American basketball player
Children have always learned and created places for themselves through play.
Donna R. Barnes Contemporary American psychologist
There is for many a poverty of play.
D.W. Winnicott British pediatrician 18961971
Play allows us to develop alternatives to violence and despair; it helps us learn perseverance and gain optimism.
Stuart Brown MD Contemporary American psychiatrist
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 German evolutionary biologist 18611946
If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society.
Jean Piaget Swiss philosopher 18961980
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 Chilean poet 19041973
I believe that those boys who take part in rough, hard play outside of school will not find any need for horse-play in school.
Theodore Roosevelt American president 18581919
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 British pediatrician 18961971
Now in myth and ritual the great instinctive forces of civilized life have their origin: law and order, commerce and profit, craft and art, poetry, wisdom and science. All are rooted in the primeval soil of play.
Johan Huizing Dutch historian 18721945
The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery.
Erik H. Erikson American psychoanalyst 19021994
Ritual grew up in sacred play; poetry was born in play and nourished on play; music and dancing were pure play.... We have to conclude, therefore, that civilization is, in its earliest phases, played. It does not come from play...it arises in and as play, and never leaves it.
Johan Huizing Dutch historian 18721945
We all need empty hours in our lives or we will have no time to create or dream.
Robert Coles Contemporary American child psychologist
The child amidst his baubles is learning the action of light, motion, gravity, muscular force
Ralph Waldo Emerson American writer 18031882
So, in all these spheresin painting, sculpture, drawing, music, singing, dancing, gymnastics, games, sports, writing, and speechwe can carry
on to our hearts content, all through our long lives, complex and specialized forms of exploration and experiment.
Desmond Morris Contemporary British zoologist
Play, while it cannot change the external realities of childrens lives, can be a vehicle for children to explore and enjoy their differences and similarities and to create, even for a brief time, a more just world where everyone is an equal and valued participant.
Patricia G. Ramsey Contemporary American educational psychologist
As astronauts and space travelers children puzzle over the future; as dinosaurs and princesses they unearth the past. As weather reporters and restaurant workers they make sense of reality; as monsters and gremlins they make sense of the unreal.
Gretchen Owocki Contemporary American early childhood educator
Pausing to listen to an airplane in the sky, stooping to watch a ladybug on a plant, sitting on a rock to watch the waves crash over the quaysidechildren have their own agendas and timescales. As they find out more about their world and their place in it; they work hard not to let adults hurry them. We need to hear their voices.
Cathy Nutbrown Contemporary British educational theorist

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Quotes about Play

It is a happy talent to know how to play.

Life must be lived as play.

In our play we reveal what kind of people we are.

Play is our brain's favorite way of learning.

Culture arises and unfolds in and as play.

Almost all creativity involves purposeful play.

Whoever wants to understand much must play much.

The true object of all human life is play.

Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning.

Play fosters belonging and encourages cooperation.

Play has been mans most useful preoccupation.

People tend to forget that play is serious.

Do notkeep children to their studies by compulsion but by play.

Deep meaning lies often in childish play.

Surely all Gods peoplelike to play.

Play keeps us fit physically and mentally.

The opposite of play is not work. Its depression.

Play is training for the unexpected.

Human beings need pleasure the way they need vitamins.

The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

There is for many a poverty of play.

D.W. Winnicott British pediatrician 18961971

D.W. Winnicott British pediatrician 18961971

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