George Orwell Quotes

When I'm on vacation here in the States, I can do all kinds of stuff; I can train and keep busy.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.

Paintin's not important. What's important is keepin' busy.

That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Any of us probably could do more important things than we are doing. Any of us could use some changes in our tasks. But none of us - and still stay alive and sane - could do without something to do.

Life, in all ranks and situations, is an outward occupation, an actual and active work.

To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general.

Play is just another version of work

I don't like not working.

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow - security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment.

The busier you get, the more you get done.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.

Work, as we usually think of it, is energy expended for a further end in view; play is energy expended for its own sake, as with children's play, or as manifestation of the end or goal of work, as in "playing" chess or the piano. Play in this sense, then, is the fulfillment of work, the exhibition of what the work has been done for.

One must work, if not from inclination, at least out of despair — since it proves, on close examination, that work is less boring than amusing oneself.

To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play.

Work is a dull thing; you cannot get away from that. The only agreeable existence is one of idleness, and that is not, unfortunately, always compatible with continuing to exist at all.

That's why they call it work, because it's not what you'd prefer to do with your free time.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.

To work - to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work!

There is a lot of hard work that needs to be done