A Quote by Brian Sutton-Smith

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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Brian Sutton-Smith
American - Psychologist

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

If someone has it inside them to commit an act, then that act would be committed anyway. It's very easy for someone to place the blame on something other than the person who committed the act. It's people looking for scapegoats, you know?

Cliff Burton

I cannot believe that violence depicted onscreen actually causes people to act out violently. That's oversimplifying the issue. If somebody commits a violent act after seeing violence in a movie, I think the question that needs to be asked is: would that person still have committed the act if he had not seen a violent film?

Park Chan-wook

There are committed Indonesian filmmakers who are committed supporters of 'The Act Of Killing.'

Joshua Oppenheimer

I think that the American people should rest assured and be assured that every federal agency that has a role to play in this terrorism is working overtime now, taking every necessary action to protect our great citizens.

Hugh Shelton

I think that the American people should rest assured and be assured that every federal agency that has a role to play in this terrorism is working overtime now. They are taking every necessary action to protect our great citizens.

Hugh Shelton

Be assured that there is no sin you have ever committed that the blood of Jesus Christ cannot cleanse.

Billy Graham

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

A passion-driven exultant man sings out Sentences that he has never thought.

William Butler Yeats

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

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

James Baldwin

Rodney Linares really stuck his neck out in Greenville to play me, because they had their prospects, guys who they had invested money in.

J. D. Martinez

To act like everyone has had the same access to share their funny is willful ignorance at its best - and just a good ol' fashioned front at its truth.

Amanda Seales

Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship - a play between divine grace and willful self-effort.

Elizabeth Gilbert

The level of dynamism is a matter of how fertile the country is in coming up with innovative ideas having prospects of profitability, how adept it is at identifying and nourishing the ideas with the best prospects, and how prepared it is in evaluating and trying out the new products and methods that are launched onto the market.

Edmund Phelps

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