Play Quotes
Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
Colin Powell
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
Margaret Mead
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
Mark Twain
There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!
Richard P. Feynman
Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.
Fred Rogers
Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
Robert Fulghum
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
Warren Beatty
What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.
Julia Cameron
Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.
Theodor Adorno
I had to act in a school play when I was about ten years old. I really didn't want to do it. But everyone had to do it so I didn't have a choice. A talent agent came and watched it and later gave me some work. It's funny because I'd always known that I wanted a movie career. I just didn't think that I would be in the movies.
Kristen Stewart
You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form.
Tom Stoppard
I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the game to excess.
Annie Lennox
No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.
Gloria Steinem
I'll always prefer to play with women and hang out with women, and I'll always be a feminist.
Courtney Love
The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.
Phyllis Diller
My favorite play in drama school was 'The Bacchae.' It's about a king who literally gets eaten alive by all the women in the play in a kind of orgy - it's related to the word 'bacchanal' - and I loved that idea of animalistic chaos and following our own desires.
Hugh Jackman
I think a lot of women innately know how to play their hand. I'm not a big one for the rules.
Katherine Heigl
I am here to play women's tennis. I'm a lady. Predominantly, most of the time I always like to play ladies.
Serena Williams
In my sophomore year, a kid told me that the secret to getting women is to play really, really hard to get. I followed his advice, and I didn't have so much as a date that year.
Greg Kinnear
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.
Fran Lebowitz
People pay to see movies with women looking beautiful, but I think there will be a place for me to play women looking my own age.
Debra Winger
I keep reading that I'm cold. But I'm not, I'm shy. And I play a lot of women of fire and sexuality like an animal - so I'm cold on one side and fiery on the other.
Emmanuelle Beart
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
Ben Hogan