Harvey Mackay Quotes

True play is creativity.

When we treat children's play as seriously as it deserves, we are helping them feel the joy that's to be found in the creative spirit. We're helping ourselves stay in touch with that spirit, too. It's the things we play withand the people who help us play that make a great difference in our lives.

We should always do something that makes us feel like a child again. Keep learning, no matter what it is.

For me, it's been liberating to put myself in the mind of a fictitious six year-old each day, and rediscover my own curiosity. I've been amazed at how one idea leads to others if I allow my mind to play and wander.

When the spirit of child's play enters into the creative process, it's a wonderful force and something to be nurtured.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.

Once in a while, I do these things that would make the 10-year old version of me laugh. I don't know why. You've got to do something a little bit immature. I'm surprised at how often those are my best ideas.

A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.

I hope I haven't grown up. The cliche for all artists is that you don't want to lose that child inside. I think when you get sedentary and set in your ways, you can lose a lot of that spontaneity and creativity. I hope I'm holding on to that.

It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.

Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.

One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.

It's good to wander into the studio and walk out with something that's better than you'd imagined it to be. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn't be as much fun.

Play is the exultation of the possible.

Even today, I am still very child-like while designing. It's a bit like Christmas - each of your designs you create is like unravelling your presents.

Once you open the toy box they will play with the toys

Sometimes people invent things because they want to stay alive or feed their children or conquer the village next door. But just as often, new ideas come into the world simply because they're fun. And here's the really strange thing: many of those playful but seemingly frivolous inventions ended up sparking momentous transformations in science, in politics and society.

Play is the answer to the question, 'How does anything new come about?'

I dig in the sand, and I play with pretty pictures, so I never really left kindergarten.

Get creative with your friends and just make stuff because you never know where it can end up.

I wrote a children's book because children have the most open minds. They are the people who really want to learn.

What I love about 'Toast' is that there's always new stuff you can do with him.

Before there can be wonders, there must be wonder.

Childhood and genius have the same master organ in common - inquisitiveness.