Elbert Hubbard Quotes

You try to get the most out of the talent. Make 'em work and let 'em play.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

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.

Children crave direction.

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

The difference between play and what is regarded as serious employment should be not a difference between the presence and absence of imagination, but a difference in the materials with which imagination is occupied.

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.

Man works when he is partially involved. When he is totally involved he is at play or leisure.

I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work.

The misuse of extrinsic rewards, so common in business, impedes creativity, stifles personal satisfaction and turns play into work.

Sometimes, when you do the music for a play, there are very clear boundaries as to what needs to be achieved. You're very much a little cog in a much bigger machine.

Insight comes at a moment of transition between work and relaxation.

Creation comes before distribution - or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the need of any possible beneficiary. Yet we are taught to admire the second-hander who dispenses gifts he has not produced above the man who made the gifts possible. We praise an act of charity. We shrug at an act of achievement.

I just try to let myself really focus on the work that's ahead of me and what my job is and how I bring something to life.

The last clear definite function of men—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need—this is man.

During the times we think we’re being “unproductive,” the seeds of new worlds are germinating within us, and they need peace to grow.

There's nothing an artist needs more - even more than excellent tools and stamina - than a deadline.

I will never again attempt to tell any young person what to do - the really gifted don't need advice and the others can't take it.

What the writer needs is an empty day ahead.

You see me in my most virile moment when you see me doing what I do. When I am directing, a special energy comes upon me. ... It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive. It is like having sex.

An actor needs to be not remotely anywhere close to in control, and a filmmaker has to be totally in control.

There's no sauce for play like work.

Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.

I love constructive criticism. I love getting notes when I'm acting. I love them telling me what to do. I don't always agree with it, but I really need it.