"It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self."

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Source : Donald Woods Winnicott (2005). “Playing and Reality”, p.73, Psychology Press

Donald Woods Winnicott

#Children Quotes #Self Quotes #Play Quotes

“I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can’t be like any other author’s really.”
“Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations.”
“We say that the words were smooth, caressing, hard, sharp, and so on: all words that refer to body touching. Indeed we can kill or elate with words as body experiences.”

Source : "Reality; The Search for Objectivity or the Quest for a Compelling Argument". The Irish Journal of Psychology, Volume 9, Issue 1, 1988.
“The corporate scandals are getting bigger and bigger. In a speech on Wall Street, President Bush spoke out on corporate responsibility, and he warned executives not to cook the books. Afterwards, Martha Stewart said the correct term was to saute the books.”
“As a painter, I realized that what we see is just manifestation of unseen power. Since then [1958 Coup in Iraq], reality started to take another form in my mind. Hence, I was aware of deception of our senses.”
“If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.”
“Listen...you can hear the colors flowering in the quiet of your soul”
“Influence is like water. Always flowing somewhere.”

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