Quotes about Playing

Author, Screenwriter

Do the stuff that only you can do. The urge, starting out, is to copy. And that's not a bad thing. Most of us only find our own voices after we've sounded like a lot of other people. But the one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. The moment that you feel that, just possibly, you're walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your mind and what exists on the inside, showing too much of yourself. That's the moment you may be starting to get it right.

Expose - Feelings - Mindset - People - Playing - Sound - Start - Story - Urgency - Vision - Voice - Writing

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Virginia Woolf

Writer

London perpetually attracts, stimulates, gives me a play and a story and a poem, without any trouble, save that of moving my legs through the streets... To walk alone through London is the greatest rest.

Movement - Playing - Story

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Orson Welles

Actor, Director, Writer, Producer

You know what I did this morning? I played the voice of a toy. Some terrible robot toys from Japan that changed from one thing to another. The Japanese have funded a full-length animated cartoon about the doings of these toys, which is all bad outer-space stuff. I play a planet. I menace somebody called Something-or-other. Then I'm destroyed. My plan to destroy Whoever-it-is is thwarted and I tear myself apart on the screen.

Change - Destroying - Mornings - Plan - Planet - Playing

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Christopher Hitchens

Author, Columnist, Essayist, Orator, Journalist, Social Critic

It is exactly the fear of revenge that motivates the deepest crimes, from the killing of the enemy's children lest they grow up to play their own part, to the erasure of the enemy's graveyards and holy places so that his hated name can be forgotten.

Criminal - Growing - Hate - Holiness - Playing

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Tony Robbins

Actor, Author, Author

Most people achieve their goals and are like, "Is this all there is?" We are supposed to keep growing so we have something to get. What we get never makes us happy. You play yourself when you forget that.

Achievement - Goals - Growing - People - Playing

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Aldous Huxley

Writer, Philosopher

Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process.

Actor - Drama - Emotions - Exploitation - Kindness - Oneself - Playing - Professionals

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Mark Twain

Writer, Humorist, Entrepreneur, Publisher, Lecturer

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.

Playing

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George Eliot

Critic, Author, Novelist

To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline.

Discipline - Heroism - Imitation - Man - Playing - Thinking - Winning - Woman

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Plato

Musician, Philosopher, Philosopher

Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices, singing and dancing, and then a man will be able to propitiate the gods.

Ability - Certainty - Dance - Game - Life - Man - Playing - Sacrifice - Singing

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Lecturer, Philosopher, Poet

Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.

Economy - Game - Playing - Wellness

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Plato

Musician, Philosopher, Philosopher

Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts.

Citizenry - Individual - Playing

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Paulo Coelho

Writer, Novelist, Lyricist

Nobody plays this life with marked cards, so sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Do not expect anything in return, do not expect your efforts to be appreciated, your genius to be discovered, your love to be understood.

Effort - Loss - Playing - Return - Sometimes - Winning

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Arthur Schopenhauer

Philosopher

We should be surprised that a matter that generally plays such an important part in the life of man has hitherto been almost entirely disregarded by philosophers, and lies before us as raw and untreated material.

Chemistry - Lie - Man - Philosophy - Playing

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Arthur Schopenhauer

Philosopher

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

Fate - Gambling - Giving - Philosophy - Playing

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Charles Dickens

Writer, Social Critic

There is nothing--no, nothing--innocent or good, that dies and is forgotten; let us hold to that faith or none. An infant, a prattling child, dying in the cradle, will live again in the better thoughts of those that loved it, and play its part through them in the redeeming actions of the world, though its body be burnt to ashes or drowned in the deep sea.

Actions - Death - Innocence - Playing - Redemption

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George Bernard Shaw

Playwright, Critic, Political Activist

Only in the problem play is there any real drama, because drama is no mere setting up of the camera to nature: it is the presentation in parable of the conflict between Man's will and his environment: in a word, of problem.

Man - Playing

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William Shakespeare

Poet, Playwright, Actor

He that plays the king shall be welcome- his Majesty shall have tribute of me; the adventurous knight shall use his foil and target; the lover shall not sigh gratis; the humorous man shall end his part in peace; the clown shall make those laugh whose lungs are tickle o' th' sere; and the lady shall say her mind freely, or the blank verse shall halt fort.

Adventure - End - Humor - Love - Man - Mindset - Playing - Stop - Targeting

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Alan Watts

Philosopher

The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.

Game - Oneself - Playing - Universe

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Thomas Jefferson

Former President of the United States

If a sect arises whose tenets would subvert morals, good sense has fair play and reasons and laughs it out of doors without suffering the State to be troubled with it.

Morals - Playing - State

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Charles Dickens

Writer, Social Critic

Mr. Bazzard's father, being a Norfolk farmer, would have furiously laid about him with a flail, a pitch-fork, and every agricultural implement available for assaulting purposes, on the slightest hint of his son's having written a play.

Availability - Farming - Humor - Playing - Writing

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