Ken Blanchard Quotes

Make your work your play and your play your work.

I'll stay in the studio for 12 hours at a time, just producing music and making records. It doesn't feel like 'Oh man I've got a job to do.' It's more like 'Oh man I didn't even realize I've been there this long.'

Follow your bliss. Do the thing where you sit down at 8 a.m. and then you realize you're hungry and you look up and it's 10 p.m. If you can find something you love that much, it doesn't matter what you do.

The trick is, when you grow up, find work that feels like play.

Work requires effort. Things we love to do feel effortless. Only do the things you love and you'll never have to work again.

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.

When you're following your energy and doing what you want all the time, the distinction between work and play dissolves.

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.

There is no real difference between work and play - it’s all living.

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

We should strive to be employed in such a way that we don't realize that what we're doing is work.

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.

I'm more and more fascinated in my own work. I work from 10 A.M. until about 9 P.M., but it's not an obsession, it's a pleasure. There's never enough time.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

And much as I enjoy writing and creating stuff, I don't enjoy it so much that I am willing to give up any time that could otherwise be spent performing.

The last thing I wanted was a big paycheck but no inspiration or support.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

The secret is keeping busy, and loving what you do.

I want to go working with good people on something that's good, because otherwise it's a big waste of time. I don't have that much time.

It's kind of not about the quality of the art, as much as this is what I love doing and I'd have a worse time doing anything else. That's kind of as far as I think in terms of philosophy.

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

The jobs I enjoy most are the ones where I never feel like I'm performing. I'm just feeling things.

I don't feel under pressure to work because I love what I do and I wanted to do the projects that came my way.

Every day, I genuinely count my blessings. One of the greatest things in life is to do a job you really enjoy.

When you have balance in your life, work becomes an entirely different experience. There is a passion that moves you to a whole new level of fulfillment and gratitude, and that's when you can do your best... for yourself and for others.