Brian Sutton-Smith famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The opposite of play is not work. It's depression.
-- Brian Sutton-Smith

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The opposite of play isnâ€™t work. Itâ€™s depression. To play is to act out and be willful, exultant and committed as if one is assured of oneâ€™s prospects.
-- Brian Sutton-Smith

#Opposites #Play #Committed
Play is a subset of voluntary behaviour involving a selective mechanism which reverses the usual contingencies of power so as to permit the subject a controllable and dialectical simulation of the moderately unmastered arousals and regulations of everyday life, in a way that is alternatively vivifying and euphoric.
-- Brian Sutton-Smith

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We study play because life is crap. Life is crap, and itâ€™s full of pain and suffering, and the only thing that makes it worth living â€” the only thing that makes it possible to get up in the morning and go on living â€” is play. Art and play.
-- Brian Sutton-Smith

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It is my opinion that the 21st century will be the century of play, and the heteroglossic activity of artists in the 20th century has been the forecast.
-- Brian Sutton-Smith

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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

#Opposites #Play #Committed

To believe something in the face of evidence and against reason - to believe something by faith - is ignoble, irresponsible and ignorant, and merits the opposite of respect,
A holy person is someone who is whole; who has, as it were, reconciled his opposites.
If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.
The thing you realize as you get older and you play, that you don't really understand when you're a backup the first few offseasons, how important that mental rest is. It's a grind physically during the season, dealing with the hits and the physical pain that goes with playing in this game. But mentally it's probably more taxing, so you need that ability to find that escape.
Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren't that many tour-de-force roles out there for women,
Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.
The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.
Collaboration is the best way to work. It's only way to work, really.
Don't wait for perfect. Don't wait for something to be fully formed in your head to start on it. Just start, and then work it out as you go.
I loved Luke Skywalker and I loved Darth Vader and I loved watching them work it out.

Brian Sutton-Smith famous quotes

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