Emily Dickinson Quotes

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

Learn to love your work and you'll never have to 'work' again.

I know that anybody who does all this and doesn't have to, everything thinks she's very driven. The truth is, I enjoy it all so! Can't it be that simple? I think it is! I don't feel overworked. I get a constant kick out of being heavily committed. Is that sick or something? God, what would I do sitting still?

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

My dad said 'When you love what you do, you never work a day in your life,' and I agree with that.

You try to get the most out of the talent. Make 'em work and let 'em play.

I think it's important to love what you do and have a good time with it. I go to work every day and have a blast.

Basically, my work is play. It never actually feels that way - I'm always aiming to attain that state. But I get to do for a living what I did as a child for fun, and that's pretty cool.

I'm not the "not-working" type. I derive pleasure from my work. Work gives me relaxation too. Every moment I am thinking of something new: making a new plan, new ways to work. In the same way that a scientist draws pleasure from long hours in the laboratory, I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is sufficient for me.

Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.

It is only those who do not know how to work that do not love it. To those who do, it is better than play.

In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and - SNAP - the job's a game!

When you love what you do, it pays off, and that's the best reward you could have.

One works because I suppose it is the most interesting thing one knows to do. The days one works are the best days. On the other days one is hurrying through the other things one imagines one has to do to keep one's life going.

A paycheck is a sufficient impetus to motivate some employees to do the minimum amount to get by, and for others, the challenge of getting ahead in the organization provides a satisfactory focus for a while. But these incentives alone are rarely strong enough to inspire workers to give their best to their work. For this a vision is needed, an overarching goal that gives meaning to the job, so that an individual can forget himself in the task and experience flow without doubts or regrets. The most important component of such a vision is an ingredient we call soul.

The only thing that can bring joy is work.

Even while you're in dead earnest about your work, you must approach it with a feeling of freedom and joy; you must be loose-jointed, like a relaxed athlete.

Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.

I never went into business just to make money - but I found that if I have fun, the money will come. I often ask myself, is my work fun and does it make me happy? I believe that the answer to that is more important than fame or fortune. If it stops being fun, I ask why? If I can't fix it, I stop doing it.

My mom said to me when I was a little kid, "You don't have to hate your job. Just because you see all these unhappy grown-ups doesn't mean you have to be one of them." She said, "Find something that you would do for free and find a way to get paid to do it." That's been my guiding principle.

The hardest-working people don't work hard because they're disciplined. They work hard because working on an exciting problem is fun.

If their work is satisfying people don't need leisure in the old-fashioned sense. No one ever asks what Newton or Darwin did to relax, or how Bach spent his weekends. At Eden-Olympia work is the ultimate play, and play the ultimate work.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse.

Work requires effort. Things we love to do feel effortless. Only do the things you love and you'll never have to work again.

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