A fashion show is like a 10-minute play, but there’s all this anticipation; Everyone arriving, finding their seats, then there’s 10 minutes of people walking past and clothes and music, then the whole thing is finished.
Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they’re big, flashing signs that something needs to change.
I simply do not distinguish between work and play.
I don’t want to be just known for the way I dress. I want to be known for how I play, how I treat people, and how I am as a role model. I don’t just want to be, ‘He dresses cool’ or ‘He dresses crazy.’ You’re going to have lovers and haters. I want my golf game to be the main thing.
Music is a universal thing with no boundaries, whether you play inside or outside.
I just tried to play the game the right way. As you get older, Father Time is undefeated.
With Zeppelin, I tried to play something different every night in my solos. I’d play for 20 minutes but the longest ever was 30 minutes. It’s a long time, but whenI was playing it seemed to fly by.
You always want to win. That is why you play tennis, because you love the sport and try to be the best you can at it.
I can’t draw a stick person. I can’t play a musical instrument. But I’ve always had a knack for making money.
Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.
Whenever in future wars the battle is fought, armored troops will play the decisive role.
When I play my match, everything else is completely not in my mind anymore.
From a Buddhist point of view, emotions are not real. As an actor, I manufacture emotions. They’re a sense of play. But real life is the same. We’re just not aware of it.
Usually, I’m a very positive guy. I try to think about the next chance, the next game, the next opportunity to play well.
Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.
I like to play cards. I’m not very good, because I don’t want to calculate, I just play by instinct. But I’ve learned a lot of business philosophy by playing poker.
I love to watch the movement of light on water, and I love to play in rivers and lakes, swimming or canoeing. I am fascinated by people who work with water – fishermen, boatmen – and by a way of life that is dominated by water.
I play dominoes all the way until I got Bible study. And then I do Bible study. I go to the game. After the game, come home. Dinner. Dominoes until I go to sleep. I’m. Not. Joking.
I don’t like playing to guitar players, actually. I’d rather just play to ordinary people.
It’s not our job to play judge and jury, to determine who is worthy of our kindness and who is not. We just need to be kind, unconditionally and without ulterior motive, even – or rather, especially – when we’d prefer not to be.
I’ve played every instrument you could possibly think of for 10 minutes. So I’m mediocre at everything. I can play drums, guitar, piano, violin, saxophone, clarinet, flute… Just not well.
Genetics do play a role in how you consciously or subconsciously manifest your true self.
I don’t play with female gamers.
Attitude and enthusiasm play a big part in my life. I get excited about the things that inspire me. I also believe in laughing and having a good time.
You know, I don’t play the race card a lot. I’m half-black, half-white, and I’m proud of – my skin is brown. The world sees me as a black man, but my mother didn’t raise me as a black man. She didn’t raise me as a white guy.
Pressure is when you play for five dollars a hole with only two in your pocket.
For most people, creativity is a serious business. They forget the telling phrase ‘the play of ideas’ and think that they need to knuckle down and work more. Often, the reverse is true. They need to play.
Getting to play with your friends and trash talk. That’s some of the best parts of gaming for me. It’s like having recess in elementary school.
Every player would love to play a tournament like the World Cup at home.
I only started playing piano because I had chickenpox when I was about 14 and wasn’t allowed to play my drums for a whole week… We had a piano in the house, so I just sat down and played that instead.
Every time I play darts I try to keep my poker face on and stay focused until that last dart has gone in.
I have always wanted to play at the top of the order.
Doesn’t matter what people say, doesn’t matter what they are going to say about you. You gotta go out there and play your game.
Why do people play the lottery, or why do people gamble, period? You know, it’s with the hope of winning something more.
The object of golf is not just to win. It is to play like a gentleman, and win.
Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
If your work isn’t exciting, doesn’t stir the emotions, where’s the challenge? Where’s the progress if you always play it safe?
I didn’t like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions – the curtain was up.
It’s the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
I feel like I play better when I’m calm. There is an inner peace I can tap into sometimes during my matches.
Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you could have been positive? When did you withhold love when you might have given it? When did you play a neurotic game instead of behaving in a powerful way? Use this process to self-correct.
‘American Honey’ takes you into the feelings of a girl travelling through the United States while giddily in love. You see modern America through her intense feelings. But again and again the film pulls the rug out from under your feet – scenes never play out as you expect.
If you play a match, then you got to give it all to beat the opponent; there is nothing like playing against a great or a non-great player. I treat them all as opponents and aim to beat them.
It takes a smart man to play dumb.
My priorities are going to be to play a very balanced role in the sense that I have to keep an eye on the challenges in the environment. At the same time, I have to keep an eye on the optimism that is there for India.
I’m just happy to play the game.
Trying to learn to be a good man is like learning to play tennis against a wall. You are only a good man – a competent, capable, interesting and lovable man – when you’re doing it for, or with, other people.
I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.
Someone told me the smile on my face gets bigger when I play the guitar.
Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.
We are faced with the dilemma of how or if we demonstrate where we stand on critical issues and corresponding social ills. We are also bombarded with so many instances of inhumanity that it can be difficult to determine what part we play in human progress.
My dad wanted me to play football so bad, he took me to Washington High School on the west side of Atlanta because they were number one. They never lost.
It really does frustrate me when I watch MLS, and I see our best U-17 players – who, again, are so talented and so capable – being rostered… but then not being put on the field much to actually play. I watch that, and I just think about how I was given a chance… a real chance… and it changed my life.
If the ‘Post’ can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper’s future success.
It has nothing to do with money. We don’t play for Australia to get paid. We play for the pride of our country and the opportunity to create history and be the best team in the world.
The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.
Every game, you’ve got to play with no fear.
We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.
Certainly when, you know, you put a lot of creative people together, there’s ego and tension and all that stuff comes into play. But on the flip side, there’s a lot of camaraderie and closeness.
It’s not how you play the game, it’s how you place the blame.
In limits, there is freedom. Creativity thrives within structure. Creating safe havens where our children are allowed to dream, play, make a mess and, yes, clean it up, we teach them respect for themselves and others.
The RAF allowed me to play a lot of football, but like England later, they failed to recognise real talent when it was under their noses.
My whole life, people have doubted me. My mom did. People told me in high school I’m too short and not fast enough to play basketball. They didn’t know my story. Because if they did, they’d know that anything is possible.
Ninety-nine percent of the world’s lovers are not with their first choice. That’s what makes the jukebox play.
