Quotes

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. – Tom Robbins

I don’t think of work as work and of play as play. It’s all living. – Richard Branson

If music be the food of love, play on, play on, play on! – Shakespeare

In my house I have put together a collection of small and large toys I can’t live without. The child who doesn’t play is not a child, but the man who doesn’t play has lost forever the child who lived in him and he will certainly miss him. I have also built my house like a toy house, and I play in it from morning till night. – Pablo Neruda

It goes without saying that as soon as one cherishes the thought of winning the contest or displaying one’s skill in technique, swordsmanship is doomed. – Takano Shigiyoshi

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. – Heraclitus

Man works when he is partially involved. When he is totally involved, he is at play or leisure. – Marshall McLuhan

Manage the top line – the strategy, the people, the product – and the bottomline will follow. You want a team in which players keep each other’s negative tendencies in check and balance each other – a team where the total is greater than the sum of the parts. Great things in business are never done by one person, they’re done by a team of people. – Steven Jobs

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging. – Hank Aaron (Hall of Fame baseball player)

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward. – Frédéric Chopin

Stop wasting time playing a role or concept. Instead, learn to actualize yourself, your potential. – Bruce Lee

The failure to understand the significance of play in maturing human beings has had incalculable consequences, because play is not only crucial to learning but, unlike other drives, is its own reward. – Edward Hall

The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he is always doing both. – James Michener

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. – Arnold Toynbee

There is no passion to be found playing small, in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. – Nelson Mandela

We don’t stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing. – G.B. Shaw

We expect kids to sit for hours and do what they are told, and if they can’t, we don’t kindly say, I see you are restless. Get up and play. Rather it is, Better get tested for ADHD and the potential to be put on drugs. – Peter Gray

Work begins when you don’t like what you’re doing. And if your life isn’t play, or if you are engaged in play and having no fun, well, quit! The spirit of the sacred space is Śiva dancing. All responsibilities are cast off. There are various ways of doing this casting off. and it doesn’t matter how it happens. The rest is play. – Joseph Campbell

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. – Plato

You won’t amount to much, the people all said ’cause I didn’t play guitar behind my head. – Bob Dylan

A person can look at pointing in reverse, that is, from fingertip to wrist. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

Above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it. – Roald Dahl

After an hour or so in the woods looking for mushrooms, Dad said, “Well, we can always go and buy some real ones.” – John Cage

All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time. – Ernest Hemingway

And those who are seen dancing are thought to be insane by those who cannot hear the music. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Are you pessimistic because life seems like a very bad, very screwed up film? If you wonder what the hell is wrong with the projector, go up to the control room. You’ll find it’s empty. You are the projectionist, and you should have been up there all the time. – Colin Wilson

Art is not what you see but what you make others see. – Edgar Degas

As a rule, out of sight disturbs men’s minds more seriously than what they see. – Julius Cesar

Be the change you wish to see in the world. – Mahatma Gandhi

Believe it, you’ll see it. Know it, you’ll be it! – Wayne Dyer

Caring about how you look must start in your heart and soul. Beauty products on their own won’t help. – Coco Chanel

Divide and rule, the politician cries. Unite and lead, is the watchword of the wise. – Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Do not seek the coward’s explanation who seeks to hide behind the causes and effects. – Leonard Cohen

Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got, till it’s gone? – Joni Mitchell

Don’t think: Look. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars and see yourself running with them. – Marcus Aurelius

Every time I hear a fire engine it seems like the trucks are running away from the fire. Not towards it. – Laurie Anderson

Everything we hear is an option, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. – Marcus Aurelius

Fear is the dream killer, the silent voice that pushes us to lose our passion in a vain attempt to seek safety. – Seth Godin

Great men are they who see that spiritual thought is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

How you see yourself is the way you’ll end up being. – Kenneth Cole

I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. – Will Rogers

I don’t very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart. – Georgia O’Keeffe

I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. – Steve Jobs

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves. Such an ethical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. – Albert Einstein    

I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street. – Stephen Hawking

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen. – Frank Lloyd Wright

I see no dividing line between imagination and reality. – Federico Fellini

I seem to be a verb. – Buckminster Fuller

I want people to see a flower whether they want to or not. – Georgia O’Keeffe

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all. – Michelangelo

If we could see the miracle of a single flower, clearly, our whole life would change. – Buddha

If we have data, let’s look at data. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine. – Jim Barksdale

If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it’s not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That’s why it’s your path. – Joseph Campbell

If you look for the bad in people, you will be sure to find it. – Abraham Lincoln

If you see 10 worries coming down to road, you can be sure 9 will chicken out before they reach you. – Calvin Coolidge

In art and in business, you need one eye looking in and one eye looking out. People who do only one usually fail at both. – Hugh Macleod

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot…for he sees what no one else does. Things that, to everyone else, are not there. – Marshall McLuhan

Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when we look back everything is different? – C.S. Lewis

It’s lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there all speckled with stars and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened. Jim, he allowed they was made, but I allowed they happened. I judged it would have took too long to make so many. Jim said the moon coulda laid them. Well, that looked kind of reasonable, so I didn’t say nothing against it because I’ve seen a frog lay most as many, so of course it could be done. We used to watch the stars that fell, too, and see them streak down. Jim allowed they’d got spoiled and was hove out of the nest. – Mark Twain (in Huckleberry Finn)

It’s not what you look at that matters. It’s what you see. – Henry David Thoreau

Keeping a diary is like to look into yourself. – Paul Claudel

Kindness is the language the deaf can hear and the blind can see. – Mark Twain

Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth… the fact that life is difficult no longer matters. – M. Scott Peck

Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save. They just stand there shining. – Anne Lamott

Look deep, deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. – Albert Einstein

Looking for a helping hand? Look at the end of your arm. – Tony Robbins

Looking for consciousness in the brain is like looking inside a radio for the announcer. – Naasim Haramein

Not so much to see what no-one has seen yet, but to think what nobody has thought yet, about that which everybody sees. – Arthur Schopenhauer

Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind. Others seem to be bothering you, but it is not the others, it is your own mind. – Ravi Shankar

Once you see the boundaries of your environment, they are no longer the boundaries of your environment. – Marshall McLuhan

One only sees what one looks for. One only looks for what one knows… Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them. – George Bernard Shaw

Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down. – Socrates

Take the first step in faith you don’t have to see the whole staircase just take the first step – Martin Luther King Jr

Technology is like a mirror. If an idiot looks in you cannot expect an apostle to look out. – Stephen Fry

The best and most beautiful things in life cannot be seen, not touched, but are felt in the heart. – Helen Keller

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. – Joseph Campbell

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The law of work seems unfair, but nothing can change it. The more enjoyment you get out of your work, the more money you will make. – Mark Twain

The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. – Henri-Frédéric Amiel

The new dawn balloons as we free it. For there is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it. – Amanda Gorman

The question is not what you look at but what you see. – Henry David Thoreau

The terror is all promises are kept. Even happiness. Keep knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who’s there. – Rumi

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. – Dolly Parton 

The world changes according to the way people see it. If you alter, even but a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it. – James Baldwin

The world we live in is a world of opposites. The trick is to reconcile those opposing things. To appreciate one, you have to know the other. The more darkness you can gather up, the more light you can see too. – David Lynch

“Then you should say what you mean,” the March Hare went on. “I do,” Alice hastily replied. “At least – at least I mean what oil say – that’s the same thing you know.” “Not the same thing a bit!” said the Hatter. “Why, you might just as well say ‘I see what I eat’ is the same thing as ‘I eat what I see.’” – Lewis Carroll

There are lots of would-be censors out there, and although they may have different agendas, they all want basically the same thing: for you to see the world they see… or to at least shut up about what you do see that’s different. They are the agents of the status quo. – Stephen King

There is radiance and glory in the darkness, could we but see. And to see we have only to look. – Fra Giovanni

Those who wear clothes look to the launderer. – Rumi

To hit a target, you must see it, clearly. – Mary Kay Ash

To see an aquarium, better not be a fish. – André Malraux

To see, we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at. – Claude Monet

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. – Jonathan Swift

Watch your thoughts, they become your words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character. Watch your character , it becomes your destiny. – Lao Tzu

We do not believe what we see, we see what we believe. – Brian Tracy

We do not see things as they are, but as we are. – Immanuel Kant

We live in an age of reproduction. Most of what makes up our personal picture of the world we have never seen with our own eyes, or rather, we’ve seen it with our own eyes, but not on the spot. Our knowledge comes to us from a distance, we are televiewers, telehearers, teleknowers. – Max Frisch

We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future. – Marshall McLuhan

We must not seek happiness in peace, but in conflict. – Paul Claudel

What we all hope in reaching for a book, is to meet a man of our own heart, to experience tragedies and delights which we ourselves lack the courage to invite, to dream dreams which will render life more hallucinating, perhaps also to discover a philosophy of life which will make us more adequate in meeting the trials and ordeals which beset us. To merely add to our store of knowledge or improve our culture, whatever that may mean, seems worthless to me. – Henry Miller

What you seek, is seeking you. – Rumi

When I despair, I remember all though history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. – Gandhi

When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time. – Antonio Porchia

When I look back on all the crap I learned in high school, it’s a wonder I can think at all. – Paul Simon

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news. my mother would say to me, look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping. To this day, especially in times of disaster, I remember my mother’s words, and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers, so many caring people in this world. – Fred Rogers

When one door closes another door opens. But we do often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. – Alexander Graham Bell

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. – Wayne Dyer

When you look at my sculptures, there is no doubt it’s a sculpture. It is not a woman. – Allen Jones

When you see a difference between the guidebook and the bird, believe the bird. – Tara Brach

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you’re finished, you’ll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird. So, let’s look at the bird and see what it’s doing, that’s what counts. – Richard Feynman

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside awakens. – Carl Jung

You will never outgrow your self-image. – Maxwell Maltz