Thursday 25 July 2013

Play - Quotes

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

Man’s most serious activity is play. - George Santayana

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with objects it loves. - Carl Gustav Jung

This combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought. - Albert Einstein

To retain the simple playfulness of childhood through one’s riper years is what opens a person up to the creative possibilities within a situation. - Denise Shekerjian

Very often the effort men put into activities that seem completely useless turns out to be extremely important in ways no one could foresee. Play has always been the mainspring of culture. - Italo Calvino

Without this playing with fantasy, no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. - Carl Gustav Jung

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