Back From The Edge

I follow the quote hash on Twitter as closely as I can. As I was exploring the theme of fun, I encountered a dearth of quotes on fun, playfulness, play, and the like. So, I went in search of quotes on these topics.  While I pulled from a number of sources, I appreciated the ones at the JoyofQuotes.com. All of the quotes below are immediately tweetable (according to number of characters). I hope you enjoy these. Post your favorite quotes on play, fun, and playfulness. I’d love to see them.

Play is our brain’s favorite way of learning
Dianne Ackerman

play produces feelings of pleasure which help you escape from two major creativity killers – stress and self-consciousness
Jordan Ayan

Whoever wants to understand much must play much
Gottfried Bern

Play keeps us fit physically and mentally.
Stuart Brown

Play is the exultation of the possible.
Martin Buber

Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.
Eileen Caddy

Play has been man’s most useful preoccupation.
Frank Caplan

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!
Charlie Chaplin

The true object of all human life is play.
G.K. Chesterton

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
John Cleese

Life is playfulness…We need to play so that we can rediscover the magic all around us.
Flora Colao

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish
Aeschylus

Laughter puts your brain, your central nervous system and your whole being into a state of free play.
Max Eastman

Play is the highest form of research.
Albert Einstein

To stimulate creativity, one must develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition.
Albert Einstein

It is a happy talent to know how to play.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Most people are much more unusual and complicated and eccentric and playful and creative than they have time to express.
Oliver Herring

Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity.
Kay Renfield Jamison

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.
Michael Jordan

Almost all creativity involves purposeful play.
Abraham Maslow

In the true man there is a child concealed – who wants to play.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.
Joseph Chilton Pierce

Do not…keep children to their studies by compulsion but by play.
Plato

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
Plato

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

In the garden of your days cultivate festivity, play and celebrations.
Mary Anne Radmacher

It’s not that you won or lost…but how you played the game.
Grantland Rice

We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing.
Charles Schaefer

Serious play is not an oxymoron; it is the essence of innovation.
Michael Schrage

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

The opposite of play is not work. It’s depression.
Brian Sutton-Smith

It is essential to our well-being, and to our lives, that we play and enjoy life.
Marcia Wieder

Let us be silent that we may hear the whispers of God

~ R W Emerson via @freeezmoney

In your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go and sheltered so may thrive and grow.

~ Louise Driscoll via @SwimBikeRunning

For fast~acting relief, try slowing down.

~ Lily Tomlin via @LightBeamWisdom

Take time to be friendly. It is the road to happiness. ~ Unknown via @succezstwittey

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. ~ Scott Adams via @kencooperusa

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties ~ Erich Fromm via @beautyshing

There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. ~ W. Somerset Maugham via @Ashaw69

Follow your bliss and doors will open for you that you never knew existed.

J. Campbell via @Quotalicious

Our deepest fears are like dragons guarding our deepest treasure.

Rainer Maria Rilke via @ZenLifeTools

FEAR is False Evidence Appearing Real

Unknown via @Vincent_Ang

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all knowledge is moonshine. – H.L. Mencken via @JJHomeBiz

Determine to live life with flair and laughter. -Maya Angelou via @workathomejoe

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. Samuel Butler via @QuoteDigest

“Attention is precious & it’s like money. Would you throw $5 on the ground? Be aware of who & where your attention is given.”

@Bregaddie

“The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.”

Robert J. Shiller via @InspiredRobin

Michael here.

It is Memorial Day. I have spent most of my morning on school working and am starting to feel overwhelmed. I opened TweetDeck and started reading through the #GTD and #Productivity posts. I came across one by @laurastack which stated “You do not always need to be doing something. Sometimes the best thing to do is to relax”. It was exactly what I needed to hear. Sometimes I can get so caught up in what I need to do or feel I should be doing something that I can go days without remembering to relax and enjoy my life.

I’m going to go and read for a while and maybe go for a walk.

Michael