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