Brenda Ueland Quotes

I'm a work horse. I like to work. I always did. I think that there is such a thing as energy, creation overflowing. And I always felt that I have this great energy and it was bound to sort of burst at the seams, so that my work automatically took its place with a mind like mine. I've never had a day when I didn't want to work. I've never had a day like that. And I knew that a day I took away from the work did not make me too happy. I just feel that I'm in tune with the right vibrations in the universe when I'm in the process of working. ... In my studio I'm as happy as a cow in her stall.

My rule is simply "love what you do". That certainly has brought me to the place I where am at right now. It really has been with the work.

You have to work hard, and you have to enjoy what you're doing. If you don't enjoy it, no matter how hard you seem to work, you're not going to be working as hard as you can because you're not enjoying it.

Love makes one fitt for any work.

I just always enjoy it; if you really enjoy what you do, you don't want to stop.

All work is empty save when there is love.

The only thing that can bring joy is work.

I love to work. Doing things we love is how we relax, I think.

When you love what you do, it stops seeming like work and instead becomes necessity.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

When you love something, it doesn't feel like work.

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.

All we have to do is find something we love doing each day, surround ourselves with like-minded people, and put all of our effort into that one thing at all times.

My number one rule in business, and in life, is to enjoy what you do. Running a business involves long hours and hard decisions; if you don't have the passion to keep you going, your business will more than likely fail. If you don't enjoy what you are doing, then you shouldn't be doing it.

It's very important to enjoy what you're doing or else you are always going to procrastinate.

I just want to work hard. I love that feeling.

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.

I think anyone's success depends on working hard, Industriousness and Enthusiasm, enjoying what you are doing. You can't work your best if you're not enjoying what you are doing. No way you can force yourself to.

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.

I'm pretty much a workaholic, but when you're doing what you love it's hard to think of a reason to stop.

Whatever you do, if you do it hard enough you'll enjoy it. The important thing is to work and work hard.

To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

If you're having fun doing what you're doing, you're gonna really want to work hard at it.