Demetri Martin Quotes

For myself, personally, I am never really aware of timing or anything because I am passionate about what I do, so I have found that if you really love what you do, then time flies.

If you do anything well, it becomes enjoyable. To keep enjoying something, you need to increase its complexity.

My goal, with whatever I'm working on, is to lose track of time.

Challenge is the pathway to engagement and progress in our lives. But not all challenges are created equal. Some challenges make us feel alive, engaged, connected, and fulfilled. Others simply overwhelm us. Knowing the difference as you set bigger and bolder challenges for yourself is critical to your sanity, success, and satisfaction.

Contentment is work so engrossing that you do not know that you are working.

Perhaps this is how you know you're doing the thing you're intended to: No matter how slow or how slight your progress, you never feel that it's a waste of time.

The human being needs a challenge, and my advice to every person in Singapore and elsewhere: Keep yourself interested, have a challenge.

My definition of success? The more you are actively and practically engaged, the more successful you will feel.

I don't have the time to be bored.

People like to be challenged. Most people that I know who are any good at life like to be challenged.

I want to be challenged, I want to work, and I want to feel that I am not being held back, that there is something in front of me, something more inspiring than... just eating breakfast, you know?

It is not easy to find something that will intrigue and bind your interest and enthusiasm. This you must seek for yourself.

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

I was reading an article in the 'New York Times;' it talked about being in the zone, and being in the zone you're so focused that time ceases to exist. It's when you think, 'Oh, I've been doing this for five hours and didn't even know it.' It's the difference between hard work and going, '12 o'clock, not moving.'

Strengths are not activities you're good at, they're activities that strengthen you. A strength is an activity that before you're doing it you look forward to doing it; while you're doing it, time goes by quickly and you can concentrate; after you've done it, it seems to fulfill a need of yours.

Give me something to do and you will make me happy.

For me, anything that you take on, you want to be challenged. That's what makes the job exciting.

I believe that life is about doing.

My motivation is to be creative and have fun. You want to do something that keeps you on your toes the rest of your life and keeps you busy.

You don't have any days to spare if you want to improve!

I don't like repeating things and look out for work that could challenge me.

Getting a script and being like, 'Oh, yeah, I can do this in my sleep.' Who wants to do that? So, finding something that is a real challenge and is going to take all of you, I think, is more rewarding by the end of it.

I think I like a challenge. I try to find projects that will push me in a new way and help me grow.

Always strive to make the next hour better than this one.

I find that if I get up and push myself, I get lost in what I'm doing, and I forget about everything else until I stop doing it.