J. G. Ballard Quotes

I enjoy my fun time and everything like that but I love what I do.

After all, a job isn't worth doing unless you enjoy it.

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

You may be exhausted with work, you may even kill yourself, but unless your work is interwoven with love, it is useless. To work without love is slavery.

I would like to enjoy my life a little bit more so I can really have more fun, but my work is my fun.

Hobbies are for people that don't like what they're doing.

I don't have to work another day of my life, thank God, but I'm in a place where I probably work as hard or harder today than I ever have, but I do it because I want to, not because I have to. What is the difference between work and play? I think the difference is purpose. When your vocation becomes your vacation, the old quote, you know that's when you made it.

I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dead in a week.

Don't have work-life balance - at least in the sense of trying to escape from work so you can have a life. Work should be fun - so make work enjoyable and satisfying for everyone - among other reasons because it pays off.

If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.

If you're not enjoying your work, what's the point?

People complain about not having a social life and always working. But I enjoy working.

I just want to do stuff that gives me work satisfaction.

It makes so much sense to just love what you do and go to work every day to get to get to work.

I just love what I do. I'm not worried about any burnout.

The day we struggle to enjoy what we do and just get the gig over with we'll quit.

The only thing that can bring joy is work.

The trick is, when you grow up, find work that feels like play.

If you work without love, you are working like a slave. When you work with love, you work like an emperor. Your work is your joy, your work is your dance.

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

You must love your work and not always be looking over the edge of it wanting your play to begin.

The simple idea that everyone needs a reasonable amount of challenging work in his or her life, and also a personal life, complete with noncompetitive leisure, has never really taken hold.

Busy work brings after ease; Ease brings sport and sport brings rest; For young and old, of all degrees, The mingled lot is best.

While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you don't constantly feel that you ought to be doing the other.