Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Illusions
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)
Source: The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When you deal with a man, deal with his most valuable possession, his life. There's play and there's the deep flow. I like to take things to the deep flow of play, because everything is a game, serious and nonserious at the same time. So play life like it's a game.”
quoted in David Hilliard (2006) Huey: Spirit of the Panther, p. 46
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Roberto Clemente (1934–1972) Puerto Rican baseball player
As quoted in "Clemente Says Hitting Does Not Come Easy"
Baseball-related, <big><big>1960s</big></big>, <big>1968</big>
Runs and Catches: an autobiography (1980), ISBN: 9780571115655.
Lionel Richie (1949) American singer-songwriter, musician, record producer and actor
Still (1979).
Song lyrics, With the Commodores
Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
Variants: It should be noted that the games of children are not games, and must be considered as their most serious actions.
For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
Book I, Ch. 23
Attributed
“Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.”
Jerome David Salinger book The Catcher in the Rye
Mr. Spencer
Source: The Catcher in the Rye (1951), Chapter 2
