Best activity & play Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I'm sitting in the bleachers, watching longingly as all the boys and umbumped girls in my Personal Health and Fitness class play Muggle Quidditch. I don't even like the game very much, I think it's silly, but I so miss physical activity that I'd be thrilled if I could run around the gymnasium with a broom between my legs, chasing after the human snitch wearing a gold pinny.”

“It is my opinion that the 21st century will be the century of play, and the heteroglossic activity of artists in the 20th century has been the forecast.”

Has Beens Play Artist Opinion Century Activity 21st Century 20th Century Forecasts

Author:Brian Sutton-Smith

“The study of letters is the study of the operation of human force, of human freedom and activity; the study of nature is the study of the operation of non-human forces, of human limitation and passivity. The contemplation of human force and activity tends naturally to heighten our own force and activity; the contemplation of human limits and passivity tends rather to check it. Therefore the men who have had the humanistic training have played, and yet play, so prominent a part in human affairs, in spite of their prodigious ignorance of the universe.”

Source: Schools and Universities on the Continent

“The educative value of manual activities and of laboratory exercises, as well as of play, depends upon the extent in which they aid in bringing about a sensing of the meaning of what is going on. In effect, if not in name, they are dramatizations.”

Ifs Wells Play Values Names Effects Depends Exercise Activity Aids Laboratory Manuals Sensing

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“1) Différance is the systematic play of differences, of the traces of differences, of the spacing by means of which elements are related to each other. This spacing is the simultaneously active and passive (the a of différance indicates this indecision as concerns activity and passivity, that which cannot be governed by or distributed between the terms of this opposition) production of the intervals without which the "full" terms would not signify, would not function.”

Mean Play Term Differences Activity Elements Concern Function Productions Active Related Opposition Passive Systematic Intervals Indecision Passivity Spacing

Author:Jacques Derrida

“In speaking of the work of machines and of natural forces we must, of course, in this comparison eliminate anything in which activity of intelligence comes into play. The latter is also capable of the hard and intense work of thinking, which tries a man just as muscular exertion does.”

Thinking Men Trying Doe Hard Play Courses Force Natural Activity Capable Machines Intense Latter Comparison Exertion

Book:Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays

Source: Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays

“The person who's receiving the food cooks as much as the chef. They have a very important role to play... There's no other activity that the person who receives it can destroy the work, can participate in how it's being done. It's emotional. Sometimes journalists are going to have to start talking more about the diners than the chefs.”

Persons Important Sometimes Done Play Talking Roles Emotional Activity Eating Cooks Journalist Receiving Chef Being Done Diners

Author:Ferran Adria

“I'm very involved in all of my social media activities. I'm not an actor. I play myself, and I take that very seriously.”

Play Actors Social Media Involved Activity Social Media

Author:Jon Taffer

“The police were also ready with more formidable tools of intimidation. The office also assigned a veteran homicide prosecutor to oversee the investigation. All this activity sent a signal to Condit. If he didn't play ball, he might find himself called to testify before a grand jury under oath.”

Ifs Play Might Ready Activity Office Tools Balls Police Investigation Veteran Signals Oath Jury Intimidation Formidable Prosecutor Homicide Grand Jury

Author:Wolf Blitzer

“Words move, turning over like tumbling clowns; like certain books and like fleas, they possess activity. All men equally have the right to say, 'This word shall bear this meaning,' and see if they can get it across. It is a sporting game, which all can play, only all cannot win.”

Ifs Men Book Play Moving Certain Games Winning Bears Activity Clown Fleas Tumbling

Author:Rose Macaulay

“I feel inauthentic at a party. ... Going to a party is a 'low' activity - the authentic self is compromised, fragmented - one plays 'roles.' One isn't fully present, beyond role-playing. One doesn't (can't) tell the full truth, which means one is lying, even if one doesn't literally tell lies.”

Ifs Feels Mean Self Play Truth Lying Party Roles Activity Lows Authentic Self Fragmented Role Playing

Book:As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

Source: As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

“Giving free advice is a sad waste of effort. In the first place, no man will act upon it unless he is already inclined to do so. Secondly, when a man lays his case before you, the idea that he is asking your advice is a polite fabrication. He merely is suggesting that he is doing so, while as a fact his real object is to acquaint you with his personal activity. He wants to talk to somebody, being a natural gossip or gadder, and he plays upon your propensity for "giving advice" in order to get an audience.”

“So far I had been travelling alone with my handbook and my Western Railway timetable: I was happiest finding my own way and did not require a liaison man. It had been my intention to stay on the train, without bothering about arriving anywhere: sight-seeing was a way of passing the time, but, as I had concluded in Istanbul, it was an activity very largely based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled.”

Source: The great railway bazaar: by train through Asia

“In the theater, when people hear that you're writing a play, they want to know what it's all about, whether there's a role for them. You write it fairly quickly, and it becomes a group activity before you're really ready to have company.”

People Knows Want Writing Play Company Roles Groups Ready Activity Theater

Author:Marsha Norman

“Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture.”

Men Play Artist Creative Activity Assuming Rapture

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Every time a child organizes and completes a chore, spends some time alone without feeling lonely, loses herself in play for an hour, or refuses to go along with her peers in some activity she feels is wrong, she will be building meaning and a sense of worth for herself and harmony in her family.”

Feels Children Play Feelings Hours Loses Building Activity Lonely Harmony Refuse Peers Organize Me Alone Chores Feeling Lonely Alone Time

Author:Barbara Coloroso

“I am impressed and distressed at how passive hierarchical organizations make people. There's often a lot of overt activity, but it's not going anywhere, it's game-playing. It's play-acting at work.”

People Play Games Acting Activity Organization Passive Impressed

Author:Judith M Bardwick

“Always continue to perform no matter what or where the activity is: local theater, regional theater, local clubs or coffee shops. Continue to play the guitar or your instrument and always continue to progress or otherwise you will fail.”

Matter Play Progress Failing Activity Theater No Matter What Instruments Guitar Clubs Coffee Locals Shops Coffee Shop

Author:Tony Vincent

“Not only do I have a great love for the game of golf - no matter how badly I play it - but I have also the belief that through every kind of meeting, through every kind of activity to which we can bring together more often and more intimately peoples of our several countries, by that measure we will do something to solve the difficulties and the tensions that this poor old world seems nowadays to so much endure.”

World Kind Country Matter Play Seems Together Games Belief Sports Poor Activity Difficulty Meetings Golf Endure Solve Tension Great Love Old World

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“I've always been quite an active person especially when I was younger. When I was in primary school, I used to play lots of sports. I was a sprinter and I did basketball and swimming and Gaelic football and things like that. So I always thought, I guess, that it would be fun to incorporate that much physical activity and work into a dramatic piece.”

Persons Play Would Be School Used Fun Sports Pieces Football Activity Basketball Active Primaries Dramatic Swimming Physical Activity Primary School Gaelic Sprinters

Author:Saoirse Ronan

“What you wear can largely govern your feelings and your emotions, and how you look influences the way people regard you. So fashion plays an important role on both the practical level and the aesthetic level of activity.”

People Way Looks Important Play Feelings Levels Emotion Roles Influence Fashion Activity Regard Practicals Aesthetic

Author:Rei Kawakubo

“No other human activity is so continuously or universally bound up with chance. And through the element of chance, guesswork and luck come to play a great part in war.”

Humans War Play Chance Activity Elements Luck Bounds Human Activity Guesswork

Book:On War

Source: On War

“Play is a necessary ingredient in art because there is a kind of wonder that goes on when you play. You're directing your activity toward a conclusion that isn't prescribed by a particular method.”

Kind Art Play Wonder Particular Goes On Activity Art Is Method Conclusion Ingredients

Author:Richard Serra

“Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.”

Wells Play Practice Discipline Activity Piano

Author:Dallas Willard

“Enlightened legislation or enlightened social activity of whatever kind, does play into the hands of people with agendas of their own. If you legalize euthanasia, you provide a field day for people who like killing other people.”

People Ifs Kind Doe Play Hands Social Fields Activity Killing Enlightened Agendas Legislation Euthanasia Killing Others

Author:J. G. Ballard

“... my father loved to take photographs of me. When I was nine I made my own costumes for a school play and I experienced becoming different characters. I loved to document myself as different images and I think my work evolved after this favorite activity. The photographs I exhibited in New York juxtaposed reality and fantasy. There was everyday life and fantasy was dismantling that reality.”

“If you are still in school, do not neglect your grades. Internships and other activities are fine, but when legal employers have to decide who to interview, grades play a big role in determining who makes that cut and who doesn't.”

Ifs Stills Play Bigs School Roles Cutting Fine Activity Interviews Grades Neglect Employers Grades In School Internships

Author:Grover Cleveland

“Have you ever played a video game that didn't have escalating levels of difficulty? Well, life can feel like play, too, when we purposefully engage in activities that demand we test and develop our skills.”

Feels Wells Play Games Levels Activity Skills Demand Tests Difficulty Video Escalating

Book:The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel

Source: The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel

“The King plays a most important part in the endgame, and gains in power and activity as the number of pieces on the board diminishes. Acting in eight different directions, he becomes, instead of the weakest piece, one of the most formidable units.”

Important Different Play Numbers Acting Pieces Kings Activity Gains Eight Chess Boards Units Diminish Formidable Different Directions Endgame

Author:Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

“Understand that writing is like an athletic activity. To play tennis well, you expect to keep practicing, but for some reason with writing, you think you should come out fresh the first time.”

Thinking Should Writing Firsts Wells Reason Play Activity First Time Tennis Athletic

Author:Natalie Goldberg

“Just wait and see this stuff play out as it does. But if, for example, why would he say some human activity linked to climate change when he has gone on record as saying that he doesn't believe it and we're gonna get people out of the EPA who do and we're gonna stop playing games with this. Why would he say it? [Donald Trump] wants to build a bridge with the opposition. This is why you don't see me at Trump Tower going up and down the elevators.”

“It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.”

Should Children Play Games Serious Activity Playing Games Children Playing

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Human bodies are designed for regular physical activity. The sedentary nature of much of modern life probably plays a significant role in the epidemic incidence of depression today. Many studies show that depressed patients who stick to a regimen of aerobic exercise improve as much as those treated with medication.”

Humans Play Shows Body Today Roles Study Modern Exercise Activity Sticks Patient Significant Treated Human Body Modern Life Epidemics Medication Physical Activity Sedentary Incidence Aerobics

Author:Andrew Weil

“Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.”

Mind Humans Play Wisdom Humor Funny Brain Creativity Humour Activity Humorous Intelligence Significant Sense Of Humor Human Brain

Author:Edward de Bono

“Send anyone claiming that their RPG activity is an art form my way, and I'll gladly stick a pin in their head and deflate it just to have the satisfaction of the popping sound that makes. One might play a game artfully, but that makes neither the game nor its play art.”

Way Art Play Might Form Games Sound Activity Sticks Satisfaction My Way Pins Popping Rpgs

Author:Gary Gygax

“Whether we eat, sleep, work, play, whatever we do life contains dissatisfaction, pain. If we enjoy pleasure, we are afraid to lose it; we strive for more and more pleasure or try to contain it. If we suffer pain we want to escape it. We experience dissatisfaction all the time. All activities contain dissatisfaction or pain, continuously.”

Ifs Want Trying Play Pain Suffering Enjoy Loses Sleep Pleasure Activity Strive Dissatisfaction Work Play

Book:Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

Source: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

“Among other things, neuroplasticity means that emotions such as happiness and compassion can be cultivated in much the same way that a person can learn through repetition to play golf and basketball or master a musical instrument, and that such practice changes the activity and physical aspects of specific brain areas.”

Source: Spontaneous Happiness: Step-by-step to peak emotional wellbeing

“A wise man once said that all human activity is a form of play. And the highest form of play is the search for Truth, Beauty and Love. What more is needed? Should there be a ‘meaning’ as well, that will be a bonus? If we waste time looking for life’s meaning, we may have no time to live — or to play.”

Ifs Men Should Humans Wells May Said Play Form Wise Needed Activity Waste Highest And Love Wasting Time Wise Man Once Said Bonus Human Activity Search For Truth Beauty And Love

Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“I am certain that over the course of your own life, you have noticed that people's rooms reflect their personalities. In my room, for instance, I have gathered a collection of objects that are important to me, including a dusty accordion on which I can play a few sad songs, a large bundle of notes on the activities of the Baudelaire orphans, and a blurry photograph, taken a very long time ago, of a woman whose name is Beatrice. These are items that are very precious and dear to me.”

“But what is work and what is not work? Is it work to dig, to carpenter, to plant trees, to fell trees, to ride, to fish, to hunt, to feed chickens, to play the piano, to take photographs, to build a house, to cook, to sew, to trim hats, to mend motor bicycles? All of these things are work to somebody, and all of them are play to somebody. There are in fact very few activities which cannot be classed either as work or play according as you choose to regard them.”

Source: The Complete Works of George Orwell: The road to Wigan Pier

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