Mark Twain Quotes

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

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.

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.

I only am in this business because I enjoy it. I think that is the only way to be in the business.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Going to work is probably my favorite thing to do. I do that five days a week for probably ten hours a day, but it doesn't even feel like work and it shouldn't. When you enjoy a job so much like I do, it's not work, it's play.

If I quit having fun, then it's time for me to quit working.

I simply do not distinguish between work and play.

I've never thought of myself as a professional. I very rarely do something I don't enjoy.

I'm a bit of a strange human being - I love to work. I love art. I love self-expression.

If you're making something you're passionate about, it's not going to feel like work.

I'm one of those people that do what I do because I love it.

Make your work your play and your play your work.

The one piece of advice I can give you is, do what turns you on. Do something that if you had all the money in the world, you’d still be doing it. You’ve got to have a reason to jump out of bed in the morning.

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

I don't play golf or tennis, I don't ski, I don't snowboard. If you love what you do, you never get enough of it.

I always felt there was some kind of nobility centered in my desire and passion for what I do.

Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

When you love something, it doesn't feel like work.

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.

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

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

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.

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