Alberto Giacometti Quotes

I don't have to work; I need to work.

Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

But I really believe that you don't do music because you want to, you do it because you have to.

To a reluctant admission of the necessity for State action, we join a burning belief in duty.

For myself, I keep writing. I've got to do something. I can't sit on my hands and do nothing.

I don't know how anyone could stop working.

At my ashram, people work long hours joyfully because they are inspired. When people are involved and joyfully doing something, they usually turn out ten times more and do more than what they would normally do as a duty.

Work is the best wonder drug ever devised by God. Work is as necessary to man as eating and sleeping. Pleasure derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.

The life of pleasure breeds boredom. The life of duty breeds resentment.

I always remember the words of George Halas, the owner of the Chicago Bears football team. When he was well into his eighties a friend found him in his office on Sunday, and asked him why, at his age, he was working on a Sunday. His response, 'It’s only work if there’s someplace else you’d rather be.'

There are certain natures to whom work is nothing, the act of work everything.

We need both to aspire and accomplish. Without a vision for your life, without a sense of purpose, you will begin to die a slow death.

I had to help them. There was no choice.

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

When you love what you do, it stops seeming like work and instead becomes necessity.

If you are stimulated by what you do, you never get tired

What I've learned from the Pixar guys is 'If you work for the love of what you're doing, it's always going to come out right.' Cause if you're working for a paycheck then it's not going to work in the long run; it's not going to feed your heart and soul.

If somebody says, "You like putting out fires," and I say, "It's not a case of liking it, but I do put them out, and if there aren't fires left I make them, so I can put them out." It's what we do.

One starts an action simply because one must do something.

I don't know," I said. "Maybe you're right, and all that stuff I think I missed is overrated. Why should I even bother? What's the point really?" He thought for a moment. "Who says there has to be a point?" he asked. "Or a reason. Maybe it's just something you have to do." He moved down to start bagging while I just stood there, letting this sink in. Just something you have to do. No excuse or rationale necessary. I kind of like that.

I'm one of the people that when I wake up I have to do what I do. It's not like I want to do it. I kind of have to do it.

I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.

I live by the motto, 'To whom much is given, much is required.' I know that people are counting on me. That's why I have to keep working hard.