Corey Harrison Quotes

I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

I probably would have retired years ago if I hadn't found interesting things to do.

I see what keeps people young: work!

Financially, I'm fine. But it's good to work. I'm not capable of doing nothing.

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

A woman at the Limited once asked me, 'Why do you work?' She said, 'You made a lot of money as a young man, so why are you still working?' I had never thought about it before. Forced to consider it, I told her, 'You know why? Because I think that if you stop to smell the roses, you'll get hit by a truck.'

I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don't work. When you clean your house, you don't get tired; it gives you satisfaction.

I'd rather be busy than not.

I love working. It gives you a reason to get up in the morning.

There is no purpose in living where there is nothing to do.

What exercise is to the body, employment is to the mind and morals.

I just can't imagine not having something to do.

I'm against retiring. The thing that keeps a man alive is having something to do.

I don't know how anyone could stop working.

People ask me if I am thinking of retiring. Well, it doesn't occur to me. Different day, different challenge, different way. Lovely jubbly.

At my ashram, people work long hours joyfully because they are inspired. When people are involved and joyfully doing something, they usually turn out ten times more and do more than what they would normally do as a duty.

If I can't work, I don't know what to do with myself.

I've been through periods where I haven't worked and would have paid someone to give me a job - I think that's really helped me feel very grateful to have a job, even when I have a call time of 3:30 A.M. My mom laughs when I text at 4 A.M saying, 'I love my job.'

I don't like idle time.

I take commissions because I know I'll have to get up early in the morning and work.

If I lounge around for too long, I get really bored. I have to be doing something.

I'm certainly not tired - work doesn't tire people, it's getting bored that's tiring.

To live is not breathing it is action.

As for boredom ... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done.

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.