#play

Some people have questioned whether or not I can play a nice guy. Sometimes you can't win for losing. ↗

— Michael Chiklis

#i #i can #losing #nice #nice guy

Written up in marker on a factory sign: I struggle with the feeling that my life isn't mine ↗

— Coldplay

#inspirational #life #song-lyrics #struggle #inspirational

People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie but for God's sake, I'm not producing a Radio 4 Play for Today, I'm making a movie that people are going to look at. ↗

— Ridley Scott

#god #going #i #look #making

A man without courage is a boat in a frozen lake! Get rid of your fears! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#courage

And, if you'll investigate the history of science, my dear boy, I think you'll find that most of the really big ideas have come from intelligent playfulness. All the sober, thin-lipped concentration is really just a matter of tidying up around the fringes of the big ideas. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#history #history-of-science #ideas #intelligent-playfulness #science

[Since] a player controls every character, it is that player's intelligence that dictates the character's goals and actions, not an arbitrary number on a character sheet. Thus, in a sense, the player _is_ the character's "intelligence score"! ↗

— Greg Stafford

#intelligence

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. ↗

— George Orwell

#bound #disregard #fair #fair play #hatred

This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play. ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

#play #work #life

Life is more fun if you play games. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#fun #games #life #play #life

As he was gasping for air he realized something. He was in deep shit. Haley was his life now. His woman. His heart. He was so screwed. ↗

— R.L. Mathewson

#playing-for-keeps #rl-mathewson #life