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We've found 29 quotes for 'playing' (0.101 seconds):



"The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own." »Michael Konda 
"No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve in quality as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing it is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them." »Alan B. Watts 
"Every man plays the fool once in his lif marry is playing the fool all one's life, but to marry is to playing the fool all one's life long." »William Congreve 
"I am not confident unless I am playing someone else." »Shahrukh Khan 
"We don't stop playing because we grow old we grow old because we stop playing." »George Bernard Shaw 
"No one ever achieved greatness by playing it safe." »Harry Gray 
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." »Voltaire 
"If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work." »William Shakespeare 
"Every man is a divinity in disguise, a God playing the fool." »Ralph Waldo Emerson 
"Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on." »Samuel Butler 
"playing football in the morning is like eating cabbage for breakfast." »Pressbox Maxim 
"We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing." »Charles Schaefer 
"God is a comic playing to an audience that's afraid to laugh." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire 
"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well." »Josh Billings 
"When your are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that." »Duffy Daugherty 
"It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you've always played it." »Richard Milhous Nixon 
"Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game." »Donald Trump 
"If I were playing third base and my mother were rounding third with the run that was going to beat us, I'd trip her. Oh, I'd pick her up and brush her off and say, 'Sorry, Mom, but nobody beats me.'" »Leo Durocher 
"Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died." »Steven Wright 
"There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago." »Julius Robert Oppenheimer 
"I seem to have been like a child playing on the sea shore, finding now and then a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me." »Isaac Newton 
"Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but does not really bring us closer to the secret of the 'Old One.' I, at any rate, am convinced that He is not playing at dice." »Albert Einstein 
"playing dead not only comes in handy when face to face with a bear, but also at important business meetings." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts 
"The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself." »Andre Malraux 
"I do not know what I may appear to the world but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." »Isaac Newton 
"playing seems to be both disinterested and passionate at the same time disinterested in that it is not for real, and passionate in the absorption it requires." »Oliver Bevan 
"Frank I'd known her for years. We used to go to all the police functions together. Ah, how I loved her, but she had her music. I think she had her music. She'd hang out with the Chicago Male Chorus and Symphony. I don't recall her playing an instrument or be able to carry a tune. Yet she was on the road 300 days of the year. In fact I bought her a harp for christmas. She asked me what it was." »Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad 
"A little girl can be sweeter (and badder) oftener than anyone else in the world. She can jitter around, and stomp, and make funny noises that frazzle your nerves, yet just when you open your mouth she stands there demure with that special look in her eyes. A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot." »Alan Marshall Beck 
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,talented and fabulous Actually, who are you not to be You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." »Marianne Williamson 
   BTW, Why won't you become an editor?

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