Quotes on Playing Games

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.

Play is the exultation of the possible.

Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes.

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

Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her.

As popular culture becomes more presentist, we move away from entertainment as the vicarious experience of a narrative - as watching someone else's story - and much more toward enacting one's own story. Moving away from myths and toward fantasy role-playing games, away from movies and toward videogames.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

We've been playing games since humanity had civilization - there is something primal about our desire and our ability to play games. It's so deep-seated that it can bypass latter-day cultural norms and biases.

You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.

Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n' roll.

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

Deep meaning lies often in childish play.

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.

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.