Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes

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

Know that it is good to work. Work with love and think of liking it when you do it.

I think training and being dedicated is very important, but one aspect that I always live by is that I enjoy myself in what I do!

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.

I'm always busy. And I don't even see it really as work, because everything I do I still really enjoy.

When I'm working, it's great. When I'm not working, it's great.

You have to be very committed and find happiness in the work that you do.

The only thing that can bring joy is work.

To be busy is man's only happiness.

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.

I do what I love for a living, and I also get to build BMX bikes in my spare time.

Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.

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

The only advice my Dad's given me is: If you ain't having fun, it ain' working, so always have fun with what you're doing. If you don't love it then there's no reason to do it. And don't do it for fame or money- do it because it's something that you feel is right.

It is important to always love what you do and do what you love. This is my mentality towards my career and my personal life.

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.

I don't have to work another day of my life, thank God, but I'm in a place where I probably work as hard or harder today than I ever have, but I do it because I want to, not because I have to. What is the difference between work and play? I think the difference is purpose. When your vocation becomes your vacation, the old quote, you know that's when you made it.

If you love your work, if you enjoy it, you're already a success.

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?

It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do.

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.

Real success is finding your life work in the work that you love. That's it. Don't worry about making a living, don't worry about popularity or fame. Make what you do ... count more than what you own.

The worst days of those who enjoy what they do are better than the best days of those who don't.

Leisure time is only leisure time when it is earned; otherwise, leisure time devolves into soul-killing lassitude. There's a reason so many new retirees, freed from the treadmill of work, promptly keel over on the golf course: Work fulfills us. It keeps us going.

It's always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there's work to do.