Jim Henson Quotes

The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.

I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with a great deal of pleasure. Why? Because I only do something if I want to do it; I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, moving, inventing.

My work is a love for me; I'd do it for free, but don't tell my bosses.

I could work 24 hours and I wouldn't complain once because I'm happiest when I'm working.

I love what I do, so I don't mind working.

You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.

I like to work. I feel blessed that I'm working.

I loved my work, and it was a conscious decision to give my best all the time.

I don't mind working long hours, because I enjoy doing that. The way to make myself happy is to work long hours.

When you think something is cool already, it's okay to put in an honest day's work.

There's never a time when I'm not working. I don't take vacations.

I'm not the "not-working" type. I derive pleasure from my work. Work gives me relaxation too. Every moment I am thinking of something new: making a new plan, new ways to work. In the same way that a scientist draws pleasure from long hours in the laboratory, I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is sufficient for me.

Working hard and appreciating the accomplishments that have come from that keeps me grounded.

Let work itself be the ambition.

I really act for myself. I really love it. I don't think there's a way that you could handle these schedules, all of the actual work that goes into it, if you don't really, really love it.

I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

My siblings and I were raised to be very hardworking and to find something that we're passionate in, and to be able to turn that into work - I'm lucky to be able to say that I've done that.

I like to work all the time and really immerse myself in the project.

I don't separate things out between what's personal and what's my work. My passion is personal.

I do give myself a break in my personal life but I think in work, if you don't push yourself you get bored and want to do something else.

I don't take time off.

I suppose the biggest thing I learned is that I'm in it for the right reasons. I love my job as much now as when I first began. I still feel fully invested in every audition, every job - large or small, every appearance, every meeting with every fan.

I see myself as a bit of a traveller. I am a workaholic.

A man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.

And the reason I came to IBM was I think - I always say at a really early age, I learned you've got to be passionate about what you do. No matter what it is, you put too much, your heart and soul in it, you have to be passionate about it. You make too many sacrifices.