Serious Play Quotes

Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff.

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.

Invest yourself in everything you do. There's fun in being serious.

I have played with seriousness and in a professional way for my country.

Writing is a completely private act. It's in a way like play but very serious play, and sometimes I can escape into the fictional world that I'm creating so fully as to see hours go by without my noticing it. I think that kind of suspension of time and that mindfulness is a real gift.

I started playing from the age of 11-12. I loved the game immediately but started playing the game seriously only in 1993-94.

It's good fun, yes, but when we play, we take it seriously and want to do well.

I was playing when I invented the aqualung. I think play is the most serious thing in the world.

The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.

And when they played they really played. And when they worked they really worked.

I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.

[The child] takes his play very seriously and he expends large amounts of emotion on it. The opposite of play is not what is serious but what is real.

Writing for me, even what you call serious writing, is play.

Play doesn't have to be a frivolous thing. You may think of a Beethoven symphony as something serious, but it's still being played. I think Oscar Wilde said that life is too important to be taken seriously.

I've played cricket seriously since I was eight years old, when I first played for the Essex under-11s. I can't just turn it off.

My work is a game, a very serious game.

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

Playing and fun are not the same thing, though when we grow up we may forget that and find ourselves mixing up playing with happiness. There can be a kind of amnesia about the seriousness of playing, especially when we played by ourselves.

If you're serious, you really understand that it's important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you're the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you're funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

There are no amateurs in the world of children.

When I played ball, I didn't play for fun.

I think I'm actually built for fatherhood. I love to have a good time and play, but at the same time I've got a really serious side to me, and I think that's the balance you have to have. Get on your kids' level, but at any point in time, let them know who the parent is.

Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

In using the terms play and playfulness, I do not intend to suggest any lack of seriousness; quite the contrary. Anyone who has watched children, or adults, at play will recognize that there is no contradiction between play and seriousness, and that some forms of play induce a measure of grave concentration not so readily called forth by work.