Tim Ferriss Quotes

That's why they call it work, because it's not what you'd prefer to do with your free time.

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

Work is the only meanin' I've ever known.

What I will do is work, although it is clear that we all want to play.

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

More than we sleep, play, or make love, we work. Yet despite - or perhaps because of - this dominant daily grind, much of our literature is biased toward other pursuits.

I love to work. I have a passion for what I do.

All people shall have the right and the obligation to work.

No one goes into the office for fun. You go, and even if you love it, you're there to work.

Working, for me, is like a gift.

Obviously, this is a job, it's a grind, but it's what you love to do. It's your passion.

Some jobs pay better, some jobs smell better, and some jobs have no business being treated like careers. But work is never the enemy, regardless of the wage. Because somewhere between the job and the paycheck, there’s still a thing called opportunity, and that’s what people need to pursue.

Work means so many things! So many! Among other things, work also means freedom. ... Without it even the miracle of love is only a cruel deception.

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.

Jobs are a part of life. Maybe you've heard of the concept. It's called work? See, what happens is that you suffer through doing annoying and humiliating things until you get paid not enough money. Like those Japanese game shows, only without all the glory.

Work is an antidote for anxiety, an ointment for sorrow, and a doorway to possibility.

And I don't like to work. I only like working when I'm working.

Working is hard and distracts from having fun.

I don't know the difference between working and not working.

If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.

Work is the thing that happens around the game time.

Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.

To me, I think I'm just going to keep focused and forward on what I'm doing, work-wise, rather than searching for any kind of meaning in it.

When I'm Los Angeles, it's work. That's what I'm there for is work.