Sydney J. Harris Quotes

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

I cannot face with comfort the idea of life without work; work and the free play of the imagination are for me the same thing, I take no pleasure in anything else.

I like to work hard and play hard.

Make your work your play and your play your work.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That's just hot air.

If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.

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?

I am a hopeless romantic who falls in lust and gets in trouble. I love my work and am very productive, yet I always find time to play.

I always have this imagination, something I want to use. I don't understand the idea of leisure time.

I'm good at working, but I'm very good at playing.

When we go out there, we have fun, but we get to work, and I think we're at our best when we're having fun. Having fun is key.

My work ethic is crazy. I'm a producer, an artist, and a video director.

My body works best when I'm playing all the time, so when I work more and I play more, I feel better.

Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best.

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between work and play.

When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really PLAYED.

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.

To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play.

The fact that people who create are good workers tends to be lost.

We seldom enjoy leisure we haven't earned.

Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

Play is where life lives

I am not at all in favor of hard work for its own sake; many people who work very hard indeed produce terrible things, and should most certainly not be encouraged.