Brian Sutton-Smith quotes
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“The opposite of play is not work. It's depression.”
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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.”
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“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.”
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“We study play because life is crap. Life is crap, and it’s full of pain and suffering, and the only thing that makes it worth living — the only thing that makes it possible to get up in the morning and go on living — is play. Art and play.”
-- Brian Sutton-SmithSource : "How Might Video Games Be Good for Us?" by Jane McGonigal, www.bigquestionsonline.com. October 15, 2012.
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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.”
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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-SmithSource : "Play for today" by Pat Kane, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2010.
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Source : A.C. Grayling (2012). “Against All Gods: Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness”, p.8, Oberon Books
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“A holy person is someone who is whole; who has, as it were, reconciled his opposites.”
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Source : Source: www.usatoday.com
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Source : "Toy boys r us" by Alun Palmer, www.mirror.co.uk. March 26, 2010.
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“Collaboration is the best way to work. It's only way to work, really.”
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“I loved Luke Skywalker and I loved Darth Vader and I loved watching them work it out.”
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