The world is your playground. Why aren’t you playing?

—Ellie Katz

The ability to play is essential to being a creative artist.

—Dewitt Jones

You’ve achieved success in your field when you don’t know whether what you are doing is work or play.     —Warren Beatty

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.           —H.G. Wells

If you aren’t playing well, the game isn’t as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.                                                                     —Thomas J. Watson, Sr

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

If I get to pick what I want to do, then it’s play...if someone else tells me that I have to do it, then it’s work.           —Patricia Nourot

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.    —Mark Twain

If you watch a game, it’s fun. If you play it, it’s recreation. If you work at it, it’s golf.      —Bob Hope

Playing seems to be both disinterested and passionate at the same time; disinterested in that it is not for real, and passionate in the absorption it requires.                                                    —Oliver Bevan

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

There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.

—Bill Watterson

Does it not appear to you versatility is the true and rare characteristic of that rare thing called genius — versatility and playfulness? In my mind they are both essential.

—Mary Russell Mitford

Our minds need relaxation and give way / Unless we mix with work a little play.             —Molier

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.  —Plato

Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold,                —Joseph Chilton Pearce

It is better to play than do nothing.                                  —Confucius

Don’t play the saxophone. Let it play you.             —Charlie Parker

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.            —George Bernard Shaw