Play Quotes - Page 73

Brahms stayed an extra day to hear my [Fifth] Symphony and was very kind ... I like his honesty and open-mindedness. Neither he nor the players liked the finale, which I also think rather horrible.

To succeed in any undertaking, any art or any trade or any profession, simply keep it ever persistently fixed in mind as an aim, and then study to make all effort toward it play or recreation. The moment it becomes hard work, we are not advancing.

Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport.

Lahm is the most intelligent player I have ever trained in my career

Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be able to hit with everybody yelling at him. He had to block all that out, block out everything but this ball that is coming in at a hundred miles an hour and he's got a split second to make up his mind if it's in or out or down or coming at his head, a split second to swing. To do what he did has got to be the most tremendous thing I've ever seen in sports.

The greatest players fit with the team. They play within the team's style, rather than asking the team to change its style.

You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it.

The happiest people are those who have learned to mix play with their work and to bind the two together with enthusiasm.

Life is a game, play it.

Guitar playing is very important to me. It's like golf to some other people; it's important to me that I play good.

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

When I wasn't famous, I had a lot of friends, almost all of them Italian. The racism only started when I started to play football.

Disorder can play a critical role in giving birth to new, higher forms of order.

I just want to go play, go win, What's going to happen is what's going to happen. I'm not worried too much about it.

I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.

Children do not play because they learn; They play because they play.

Sometimes I like to play the soundtracks to famous musicals so we can all sing along. South Pacific is one of my favorites. Our neighbors must hate us.

Prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.

I don't know of a guitar player that has only one guitar. They're never happy with one. I'm never happy with just one of them. I woke up and ended up with six, even if you can only play one at a time!

Those individuals who give moral considerations a much greater weight than considerations of expediency represent a comparatively small minority, five percent of the people perhaps. But, In spite of their numerical inferiority, they play a major role in our society because theirs is the voice of the conscience of society.

Buy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don't even speak to him on the field. Get out there and beat them to death.

It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.

Cristiano reminds me of German tennis player Michael Stich. He was destined to make history, but then Boris Becker showed up. Cristiano is so fast, so strong, so incredible, but he has one problem: Leo Messi.

Play is the royal road to childhood happiness and adult brilliance.

I look at the story, I look at the idea and just try to think of it in terms of that whole body of myth and see where the characters fit in and what they ought to be doing-all those archetypes are there to play with.