Mark Twain Quotes

There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a day all by themselves. Of course it's why you want to become a writer — because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.

Thinking is the hardest work we can do, and among the most important

In doing that which we most enjoy, we will probably make our most significant contribution to society, and the contribution we make to society determines our rewards.

Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.

If it doesn't feel like a job and I'm learning something and getting that rush that I get, I don't care if it's behind a camera, on a TV set, or on the moon.

I couldn't think of anything else I'd rather be doing.

I look to see what things I enjoy doing and just try to figure out how to spend my time doing things that I enjoy.

I've now returned to the business again because I finally realised that I really enjoy the creative process.

I'm not looking to get away from anything. I like what I've done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

In coaching, you don't ever really have that joyful fun, but there's no question that it's enjoyable.

It's a tough business. To my parents or to their friends, I was not a success, but to me I was a huge success. I was having a blast. I was working on shows I loved, I was working with actors I loved, and I was making a living as an actor. And I loved every second of it.

It doesn't really matter where the opportunity comes from, as long as I have fun doing the work.

I'm absolutely doing what I enjoy.

I work very hard, you know, but I don't think that I'm working, because what I do pleases me so much. I write about certain things because certain things happen to me.

I learned from my parents that you have to get pleasure out of what you're doing, or don't do it.

Working on 'The Paradise' is like putting on a comfy overcoat.

When I stepped from hard manual work to writing, I just stepped from one kind of hard work to another.

Besides, you don't work for a dollar - you work to create and have fun.

Strenuous intellectual work and the study of God's Nature are the angels that will lead me through all the troubles of this life with consolation, strength, and uncompromising rigor.

I enjoy making films and some experiences are better than others. Most of the time they're great experiences... but turning up to go to work on this every day was an absolute pleasure and that comes from the top.

When you read, you think, and when you smoke, you think. It's a pleasurable thing, and not a duty.

You must do what you enjoy.

Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.

I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labour, for I have devoted to it almost all of my waking hours. But if work is interpreted to be a definite performance in a specified time according to a rigid rule, then I may be the worst of idlers.

Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.