A Conversation with Martin de Maat (1998)
Context: The beginning of this work is just how to get people to remember how to play, to be in play. Once you're in play, you're in the moment. You're not judgmental, you're enjoying each other, you're accepting of everything that goes on; you're trusting yourself and just doing the game as best as you can. Your critical mind is gone, your analytical mind is not involved. Really, it's just the flow that goes on between human beings, the group the power of the ensemble.
As with any ensemble, it is the team effort or the group effort that makes the individual grow or look good. That's what the center of this work is all about, what these games and exercises are all about... breaking down barriers between people, empowering the individual to believe in their own associations and ideas, uncovering the courage to create, the courage to communicate.
“Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.”
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American writer 1899–1995Related quotes
"On Being Idle".
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)
“A man might as well play for nothing as work for nothing.”
In an obituary, Canada Law Journal, January 1, 1881, p. 11. According to the journal: "[Cockburn] subsequently acquired a large practice in London in railway and election cases. Although he did his best for his clients, he was careful that they should do their duty by him, and the story is told that on one occasion, when an election committee met, Mr. Cockburn, the counsel for one of the parties, was absent because his fee had not accompanied the brief and the only message left was that he had gone to the Derby, with the remark that 'A man might as well play for nothing as work for nothing'".
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Source: The Way of the Pulse: Drumming with Spirit (1999), pp. 89-90
“Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
Preface http://web.archive.org/20080320021015/redcoat668.wordpress.com/2008/03/04/the-game-designers-barbecue-in-memory-of-gary-gygax-1938-2008/ to the Oriental Adventures (1985)
This Mortal Mountain (p. 135)
Short fiction, The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth, and Other Stories (1971)
“One suffers work, even if one enjoys doing it.”
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Women As Lovers (1994)