Beverly Sills Quotes

I just always enjoy it; if you really enjoy what you do, you don't want to stop.

You have to work hard, and you have to enjoy what you're doing. If you don't enjoy it, no matter how hard you seem to work, you're not going to be working as hard as you can because you're not enjoying it.

And I don't like to work. I only like working when I'm working.

The happiest people are those who have learned to mix play with their work and to bind the two together with enthusiasm.

I'm a work horse. I like to work. I always did. I think that there is such a thing as energy, creation overflowing. And I always felt that I have this great energy and it was bound to sort of burst at the seams, so that my work automatically took its place with a mind like mine. I've never had a day when I didn't want to work. I've never had a day like that. And I knew that a day I took away from the work did not make me too happy. I just feel that I'm in tune with the right vibrations in the universe when I'm in the process of working. ... In my studio I'm as happy as a cow in her stall.

Learn to love your work and you'll never have to 'work' again.

I always remember the words of George Halas, the owner of the Chicago Bears football team. When he was well into his eighties a friend found him in his office on Sunday, and asked him why, at his age, he was working on a Sunday. His response, 'It’s only work if there’s someplace else you’d rather be.'

If you are stimulated by what you do, you never get tired

You have to love what you're doing in order to find the energy.

Whatever you do, if you do it hard enough you'll enjoy it. The important thing is to work and work hard.

I enjoy my work so much that I have to be pulled away from my work into leisure.

If you love your work, if you enjoy it, you're already a success.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

I just hate people who are lazy. To be on my team, you have to have energy and a sense of wanting to learn. That really excites me.

When I'm doing something I love, I can lose sleep. I can go and go and go and go. My work ethic is pretty intense. But when it comes to doing something that I don't love every day, I'm not very good at it. That's called work, and I don't like work that much.

To do this job, you really have to love what you're doing.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

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.

The secret is keeping busy, and loving what you do.

I do not need any rest. I enjoy my work, and at work, I rest. I rest with my good work.

I never stop working.

I remember telling my dad, 'I'm working 14- to 16-hour days and I don't care. I can't wait to get back to work.'

Working every day isn't hard if you love what you're doing.

For me, work is both a hobby and a passion. And sometimes an obsession.