Play is the answer to the question, 'How does anything new come about?'
‐‐ Jean Piaget
Play is the best natural resource in a creative economy. Kids need more of it. It is the work of childhood. We hope to intrinsically change the opinion that play is not just a luxury but an absolute necessity for kids' lives.
‐‐ Darell Hammond
Play is the exultation of the possible.
‐‐ Martin Buber
Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.
‐‐ Joseph Chilton Pearce
Play is the work of childhood.
‐‐ Jean Piaget
Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff.
‐‐ Bob Keeshan
Play is under attack in our nation's schools - and shrinking recess periods are only part of the problem. Homework is increasing. Cities are building new schools without playgrounds. Safety concerns are prompting bans of tag, soccer, and even running on the schoolyard.
‐‐ Darell Hammond
'Play It Again Sam's opening shot is the same as 'Purple Rose's final one: a close-up of a face, rapt in a movie house. I've certainly felt that in my life. I've been known to cry watching Gene Kelly.
‐‐ David Rakoff
Play like you're positive on the victory, even though they're leading big now.
‐‐ Knute Rockne
Play more than one game at a time. This is a painless way to learn how to do many things at once.
‐‐ Marilyn vos Savant
Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
‐‐ George Eliot
Play off everyone against each other so that you have more avenues of action open to you.
‐‐ Howard Hughes
Play reaches the habits most needed for intellectual growth.
‐‐ Bruno Bettelheim
Play so that you may be serious.
‐‐ Anacharsis
Play Trivial Pursuit with me, and you'll be astonished. I can remember every outfit I wore to every party going back to 1983.
‐‐ James St. James
'Playboy' made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings - not affluence and luxury as such, but joie de vivre itself.
‐‐ LeRoy Neiman
Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
‐‐ Jack Nicholson
Players are artists who create their own reality within the game.
‐‐ Shigeru Miyamoto
Players are ready to play, We're not on strike. It's a lockout.
‐‐ Dwyane Wade
Players aren't quite as mercenary as people make them out to be. Some of them are but some aren't.
‐‐ David Gill
Players come and go, good friends, players who performed well. You can't control that.
‐‐ Mats Sundin
Players don't really ask for much or want much. But the things that they do need are important.
‐‐ Sheryl Swoopes
Players don't usually like anybody who makes more money than they do.
‐‐ Dan Jenkins
Players have a great deal of flexibility when conducting diplomatic relations with their allies.
‐‐ Mike Simpson
Players have an in-season playing weight, and we have to be careful not to stray too far from it when we're not under the watchful eye of the nutritionist. This can be a problem when the food isn't being prepared and regulated by our cooking staff.
‐‐ D'Brickashaw Ferguson
Players have responsibility, and if they don't do their job, certain things happen. Coaches have responsibility. If they don't do their job, things happen.
‐‐ Mike Singletary
Players have two things to do. Play and keep their mouths shut.
‐‐ Sparky Anderson
Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes.
‐‐ Brian Clough
Players respond to coaches who really have their best interests at heart.
‐‐ Mike Singletary
Players should know that if you can't make the contribution of the winning shot, that your attitude every day when you come to practice, or the positive contribution you make through cheering and keeping up team morale, is just as important in the overall picture.
‐‐ Sue Wicks
Players shy away from talking to announcers today.
‐‐ Al Kaline
Players suffer coaching changes all the time; it's life in the NFL.
‐‐ Michael Wilbon
Players today are concerned about the money, but the large dollars only go to those players who are the best.
‐‐ Lynn Swann
Players very widely disagree with me about what's hard and what's easy. and in a way, 'I won, but it was a fight' is the best compliment a game can receive.
‐‐ Graham Nelson
Players who are not from the U.K. have to get used to the winds. I have to adapt my style as a result as well. Often, you are forced to keep things simple.
‐‐ Jurgen Klopp
Players would empty their souls to me; you cannot fathom the stories I've heard, everything from the good to the bad. I tried whatever I could to work things out.
‐‐ Morgan Wootten
Playful stimulation probably hits all kinds of synaptic possibilities. It is all make-believe and all over the map. The potentiality of the synapses and the potentiality of playfulness are a beautiful marriage.
‐‐ Brian Sutton-Smith
Playgrounds are essentially machines to induce Newtonian physics on our own bodies.
‐‐ Jake Barton
Playin' bass runs and singin' lead vox, is sometimes difficult, but I have three words for you: Practice, practice, practice!
‐‐ Glenn Hughes
Playing 10 years in the NHL, almost 600 games, there's going to be some wear and tear for everybody.
‐‐ Mike Comrie
Playing a bad guy is always a freeing experience, because you don't have the same envelope of restrictions as you have playing a good guy. Good guys restrain themselves; they kind of have their moral fiber cut out for them in varying degrees.
‐‐ John Travolta
Playing a bad guy is always more fun than playing the good guy.
‐‐ Margot Robbie
Playing a bad guy would be fun, I'm not going to lie. I'd definitely do that in a heartbeat, because it's so out of my nature.
‐‐ Michael B. Jordan
Playing a character in a video game is different to other performances because your character can't lead the audience of players in one direction.
‐‐ Andy Serkis
Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
‐‐ Al Pacino
Playing a character who's dealing not only with a superpower but having a normal relationship is easy to associate with, because I feel that everyone has been through it.
‐‐ Shawn Ashmore
Playing a concert for 2 hours is pie. I would do that every minute of every day if I could. I love to perform. It's the 22 hours before the next show that kills you.
‐‐ Kid Rock
Playing a fashion designer could be the bane of my existence because I am married to a fashion designer.
‐‐ Lori Loughlin
Playing a Fender is an art itself. They're always going out of tune.
‐‐ Ritchie Blackmore