Michio Kaku Quotes

I love working. I love doing things. I don't like sitting.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

I'd rather be busy than not.

I hate resting. I feel restless. My preference is to be working.

The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.

Being productive gives people a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that loafing never can.

I'm not a fan of idleness, except in small doses.

Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

I'm better off working as opposed to lying around.

If you want to succeed at any job, make yourself invaluable. Go the extra mile; make them never be able to imagine what life without you there would be like.

I love being busy.

An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.

Work begets work.

It would take me three or four lifetimes to do everything I want. I'm a Brooklyn boy who learned to hustle, and I have to do something every day or I get the guilties.

I suppose all of us - we have the old Protestant work ethic of feeling guilty when you're not working, and getting a buzz from feeling like you're really busy. That's the reason to sort of carry on.

I really work. I like feeling that I've nailed it, and we've got the picture.

I think work begets work.

I come from the kind of family where work is work; my parents always taught me that it's better to be doing something than sitting around doing nothing.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

If I can stay constantly busy, I'll be happy.

You can't get anything done hanging out all day long.

Do the day's work.