Play Quotes - Page 42

When you ride your bike, you're working your legs, but your mind is on a treadmill. When you play chess, your mind is clicking along, but your body is stagnating. Climbing brings it together in a beautiful, magical way. The adrenaline is flowing, and it's flowing all the time.

Don't play the notes. Play the meaning of the notes.

Help your players to control their emotions - do this through example.

The world is full of musicians who can play great, and you wouldn't cross the road to see them. It's people who have this indefinable attitude that are the good ones.

All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.

I like to play bad guys, since good guys are always beaten up several times during the movie. Bad guys are beaten only once, in the end.

There are really only two ways to approach life - as victim or as gallant fighter - and you must decide if you want to act or react, deal your own cards or play with a stacked deck. And if you don't decide which way to play with life, it always plays with you.

For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar.

Most players don't mind drug testing once they realize they don't have to study for it.

Always acknowledge hustle plays in practice.

Writing is not the lottery. New writers have to be realistic about what it takes to get published. But there is one similarity to the lottery: You have to play to win.

You must have your player's heads and hearts before they will do anything for you

You need three things in the theatre - the play, the actors and the audience, and each must give something.

I'm a workaholic. I love every movie I've been in, even the bad ones, every TV series, every play, because I love to work. It's what keeps me going.

Play is the state of mind that we can use in our creative process to our advantage.

It's always the same when you don't get enough snaps. If we can get it going, stay on the field, the beauty of the offense is they'll all get involved in it. You've got to have drives, you've got to make first downs. You can't get players involved if you only have three plays and out. That's not real good.

To play billiards well was a sign of an ill-spent youth

If you play golf, you are my friend.

Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.

Unconsciously, I fell in love with the small round sphere, with its amusing and capricious rebounds which sometimes play with me.

The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.

I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people

A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.

The reason why I like theater is because it's a long journey, and no matter what role you play, we are all in it together.

It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you.