A Quote by Brian Sutton-Smith

The opposite of play isn’t work. It’s depression. To play is to act out and be willful, exultant and committed as if one is assured of one’s prospects.

Brian Sutton-Smith

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Act Assured Committed Depression Opposite Out Play Prospects Willful Work

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Brian Sutton-Smith
American - Psychologist

To play is to act out and be willful, exultant and committed, as if one is assured of one's prospects.

Brian Sutton-Smith

The opposite of play is not work—the opposite of play is depression.

Brene Brown

The opposite of play is not work. It's depression.

Brian Sutton-Smith

A weakness of many of the self-oriented play theories is that they often sound too much like vain consumerism instead of being about the more passionate and willful character of human play, which involves a willingness, even if a fantasy, to believe in the play venture itself.

Brian Sutton-Smith

I did not play for Manchester City and I had no prospects to play, so there was no reason to stay.

Kasper Schmeichel

Normally we think of play as the opposite of work. Work is the thing you have to do, and then there's play, the thing you choose to do.

Ian Bogost

I'm an actor. I play roles in films and theaters. I don't act out, and I don't play people.

William Hurt

We don’t have to do a bunch of things to figure out how to win the Ryder Cup. Just go play golf. ... I’m a little bit too casual probably about a lot of things, but you can’t force good play. Good play comes from good hard work and actually being prepared to play, not being forced to play.

Jack Nicklaus

I am committed to whatever cricket I play. Once I step across the line I am 100 percent committed - it doesn't matter what kind of cricket we play.

Chris Gayle

The first thing I wrote was a one-act play that got accepted at a one-act play festival, and I was in it along with Nathan Lane and a couple of other very good actors.

Aaron Sorkin

Any phrase that suggests play is this domain that's the opposite of work, or the thing that you do when you're done working, should trouble us. Because it means that play is always relegated to the exhaust of life. It's the thing that you do after you do the important stuff, it's what you do on your own time.

Ian Bogost

Play doesn't have to be the opposite of work.

Jill Vialet

To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play.

Alan Watts

I act according to the requirements of the character, and if I try to play the role, then I play it truthfully. In my daily life, I'm a laid-back, peaceful guy. I'm just doing my job to act.