John Sculley Quotes

Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.

I look for stuff that I'm passionate about.

When work seems like a job, I don't do it anymore. I always want it to be something I'm interested in and something that challenges me.

My motivation is to be creative and have fun. You want to do something that keeps you on your toes the rest of your life and keeps you busy.

The three things that motivate creative people - autonomy, mastery, purpose!

Innovation comes from people who take joy in their work.

To love is to be engaged is to work is to be interested is to create.

I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.

What's important is passion, investment, and people laughing out loud as they work.

You learn at your best when you have something you care about and can get pleasure in being engaged in.

I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.

You cannot get tired if you're interested in what you do. That's the key thing.

You have to have passion for a subject to write about it. You can't expect your readers to feel any excitement if it's nothing but a boring writing exercise for you.

If I'm interested in what I'm doing, other people will be interested in it.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

There are some subjects in school that I love, but it can still feel like a chore. Acting never feels like a chore.

I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with a great deal of pleasure. Why? Because I only do something if I want to do it; I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, moving, inventing.

If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.

All I know is that I am constantly intrigued by something I'm doing.

I choose questions to work on according to how much they excite me.

I'm a very lazy person by nature. I have to be really engaged, and then I go straight from lazy to obsessive. I couldn't study chemistry, but I could memorize all the books for Dungeons and Dragons. It was ridiculous. The trick is to find what I like to do.

If it's something that reaches out and grabs me, I want to do it. I have a lot of trouble doing things that don't grab me. So, I'm not a very good actor in that way. I can't fake it.

There's no point in working if I'm not involved and interested.

Energy is the key to creativity. Energy is the key to life.

You're always fascinated by what you do, and how other people look at it.