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  • What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. . . . The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. . . . When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Mean Quotes , Player Quotes
  • For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good and the well is thought to reside in the function, so would it seem to be for man, if he has a function.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Artist Quotes , Player Quotes
  • He fumbles at your spirit As players at the keys Before they drop full music on; He stuns you by degrees. Prepares your brittle substance For the ethereal blow by fainter hammers, further heard, Then nearer, then so slow Your breath has time to straighten Your brain to bubble cool,- Deals one imperial thunderbolt That scalps your naked soul.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Blow Quotes , Player Quotes
  • At the end of the playback of the take of "Like A Rolling Stone", or actually during the thing, Bob Dylan said to the producer, turn up the organ. And Tom Wilson said, oh man, that guy's not an organ player. And Dylan said, I don't care, turn the organ up, and that's really how I became an organ player.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Al Kooper Quotes , Player Quotes , Men Quotes
  • There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr. Babbage , and if we choose to call the former a pure machine we must be prepared to admit that it is, beyond all comparison, the most wonderful of the inventions of mankind.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Player Quotes , Analogies Quotes
  • Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled ; and by doing brave acts, we become brave.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Men Quotes , Player Quotes
  • It's really hard because you only have that split-second to determine what to do. It's crazy. I try my best to use clear judgment and make clear decisions, but a lot of those collisions are unavoidable. You're either going to let them catch it and take a step to see what's going on, or there's going to be a collision.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adrian Wilson Quotes , Crazy Quotes , Player Quotes
  • I was never great, but I was a good [basketball] player, and I could play seriously. Now I'm like one of these old guys who's running around, and the guys I play with, who are all a lot younger, they sort of pity me and sympathize with me. They tolerate me, but we all know that I'm the weak link on the court. And I don't like being the weak link.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Running Quotes , Player Quotes
  • And if there come the singers, and the dancers and the flute players - buy of their gifts also. For they too are gatherers of fruit and frankincense, and that which they bring, though fashioned of dreams, is raiment and fod for your soul.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Dream Quotes , Player Quotes