D. J. MacHale Quotes

Everyone makes sacrifices for their job; the movie's not saying that you don't have to work hard. The movie is saying that if you're going to work hard, then make it worth it, believe in what you're doing.

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.

It is not hard work that is dreary; it is superficial work.

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing

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.

It's easier to work hard when you're passionate about what you're doing.

I love feeling exhausted after a good, hard, honest day's work.

Life's not about feeling better, it's about getting the job done.

Give no man sympathy because he has to work - it is his blessing that he can.

Most people work at keeping their job, rather than doing a good job. If you're the former, you're leading a meaningless life. If you're the latter, keep up the good work.

The only thing that can bring joy is work.

Happiness mainly depends on man's ability to work and the way in which he does it.

Critics should find meaningful work.

All the hard work means something. That's all you can really ask for, as an actor.

The Josh Brolin character in that movie [Hail, Caesar!], he's given a choice to leave, to do something where he wouldn't have to work as hard. And he'd rather work and deal with the madness of what he's doing because it thrills him, because it gives him meaning.

I won't do something just for the sake of working.

Work is what saves you.

I've never worked for the sake of working. There's probably enough crap out there for me not to add to it.

You got to like your work. You have got to like what you are doing, you have got to be doing something worthwhile so you can like it - because it is worthwhile, that it makes a difference, don't you see?

I like to work - I probably work too much.

The most important lesson I've learned is how rich and rewarding life is when one can engage in meaningful work, whether on the job or outside of work.

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

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

I read a quote by James Dean when I was 17; he said, 'I'd rather starve than do a whole bunch of work that I don't care about.' The older I got, the more I understood what he was saying. If I want to do a whole lot of work that I don't care about, then I would probably be working in a law office somewhere.