Richard P. Feynman Quotes

I didn't expect it was going to be easy. But hard work is a lot easier to tolerate when it's something you want to do instead of something you have no choice about.

Do what you have to do, to do what you want to do.

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

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 try not to do anything I don't like, so I stay motivated pretty easily.

I love what I do, so I don't mind working.

The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.

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

All we have to do is find something we love doing each day, surround ourselves with like-minded people, and put all of our effort into that one thing at all times.

I don't have a boss. I don't answer to anybody. I do everything that I want to do out of the purity of making people happy.

If you do what you love, you're going work your butt off every day.

I just want to work hard. I love that feeling.

Do what you think is interesting, do something that you think is fun and worthwhile, because otherwise you won't do it well anyway.

By the time you establish your priorities, there really isn't any fun or need to interest yourself in what you're doing. And this I find disastrous.

Work is often the father of pleasure.

Whatever you do, if you do it hard enough you'll enjoy it. The important thing is to work and work hard.

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

We almost have to force or drive ourselves to work hard if we are to reach our potential. If we don't enjoy what we do, we won't be able to push as hard as we need to push for as long as we need to push to achieve our best. However, if we enjoy what we do and if we're enthusiastic about it, we'll do it better and come closer to becoming the best we can be.

You must work and should not be lazy if you want to be happy.

You have to work hard, and you have to enjoy what you're doing. If you don't enjoy it, no matter how hard you seem to work, you're not going to be working as hard as you can because you're not enjoying it.

When you focus on life, on enjoying and connecting with other people, that's when work comes. When you focus on work, you can never work. I'm always going through waves of that.

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

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.

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

It's important to set your own goals and work hard to achieve them.