Quotes on Play

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

If I wanted to play the violin, I had to work. Because anything that one wants to do really, and one loves doing, one must do everyday. It should be as easy to the artist and as natural as flying is to a bird. And you can’t imagine a bird saying well, I’m tired today, I’m not going to fly!

To play the trumpet, you must train your lips for a long time. When I was twelve or thirteen I was a good player, but I lost the skill and now I play very badly. I do it every day even so. The reason is that I want to return to my childhood. For me, the trumpet is evidence of the sort of young man I was.

Pay now, play later; play now, pay later.

Now it is characteristic of play that one plays without reason and there must be no reason for it. Play is its own good reason.

Many of the greatest things man has achieved are not the result of consciously directed thought, and still less the product of a deliberately coordinated effort of many individuals, but of a process in which the individual plays a part which he can never fully understand.

For children, play is exceedingly seriously & important

You can’t play city rules when you live in a jungle.

If you're not dark inside and you come to this world, it'l turn you dark... and if you really have Sunshine inside you, it's not good to play in the dark. It's just gonna extinguish your fire.

The eternal principle, which never was born, never will die: it is in all things: it is in you now. You are the wave on the face of the ocean. When the wave is gone, is the water gone? Has anything happened? Nothing has happened. It is a play, a game, a dance.

You have to love the characters you play, even if no one else does.

You cannot play for Arsenal and give up, no matter what the score is.

To sit back and let fate play its hand out and never influence it is not the way man was meant to operate.

It's much more fun to play something you're nothing like than what you are... It's much easier to hide yourself in a character.

There is no reason to believe ... that the "essential purpose" of language is "communication". Language can be used to transmit information, but it also serves many other purposes: to establish relations among people, to express or clarify thought, for play, for creative mental activity, to gain understanding, and so on. In my opinion, there is no reason to accord privileged status to one or the other of these modes.

I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.

Success isn't determined by how many times you win, but by how you play the week after you lose.

Watch a man at play for an hour and you can learn more about him than in talking to him for a year.

What you have to do, you do with play. The universe is God’s play.

In the opening a master should play like a book, in the mid-game he should play like a magician, in the ending he should play like a machine.

We do not have time to play at "oppositions" at "conferences." We will keep our political opponents... whether open or disguised as "nonparty," in prison.