Baltasar Gracian Quotes

I want to do work, but I also want to have a good time.

Work is often the father of pleasure.

I like mixing or combining hobby and pleasure with work and have-tos.

While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you don't constantly feel that you ought to be doing the other.

Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure.

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.

I like to have fun all the time, even if I'm working.

When you have fun doing something, it stops being work, really.

When you like something, it's not work, it's a pleasure.

If you've ever done something you love and go do something you like, it's like chewing on sawdust.

It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.

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.

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

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

I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life's short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily

Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.

I'm trying to be really synced. It goes back to the idea that, ultimately, the reward is the work. The staying balanced, it requires you to know that the work you're doing right now is ultimately what is going to give you the sense of freedom that you're hoping to find in a more realized life.

Business by no means forbids pleasures; on the contrary, they reciprocally season each other; and I will venture to affirm, that no man enjoys either in perfection that does not join both.

Work saves us from melancholy. Pleasure exposes us to it.

You know you're getting old when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.

There is work, and there is pleasure; acting is pleasure.

My philosophy is: If you can't have fun, there's no sense in doing it.