Louisa May Alcott Quotes

I have that balance of having fun - because I can need to have a ton of fun - but also locking it in at times.

Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse.

To work is simple enough; but to rest, there is the difficulty.

Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.

I only have two things in my life, my family and work. If there's any time left over, then I play sports.

I tend to be a bit of a workaholic, but I also can't function without some sort of domesticity as well.

Sometimes I get kind of bored if I go like a month or so and I'm not doing anything. At first I'm like, 'Cool, I'll have a little time off and I'll get to hang out with friends,' but then after a little while goes by I'm like, 'Oh,' and I really wish that I could go back and start doing work again.

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 get a lot done considering I spend half my day sleeping.

I'm interested in playing, not working.

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

Everything is about balance. You can't work, work, work, work without any play.

I don't think I am a workaholic. I prefer to keep busy. It is better than the alternative.

I think a lot of us feel the need to always be connected, and finding time to relax and sometimes play is something that I think we all need to make more time for, especially me.

I don't overwork - a couple of hours a day is fine for me.

I'm either working or I'm lying in bed the entire day.

My body works best when I'm playing all the time, so when I work more and I play more, I feel better.

I have a very full and busy life and occasionally I am asked, Scotty, how can you do all that you do? The most telling reply I can give is: Because I spend at least two hours a day doing nothing.

We've tried to regulate things so that you at least get to go home at night and not have to pull all-nighters and see them on weekends and things. So, you know, like everything in life, it's a balance.

Twenty-four hours is never enough for a busy person and way too much for somebody with nothing to do.

When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really PLAYED.

Locke, whom there is no reason to suspect of being a favorer of idleness or libertinism, has advanced that whoever hopes to employ any part of his time with efficacy and vigor must allow some of it to pass with trifles.

Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

I'm having a lot more fun living life. My new motto is "plerking" - I play and work at the same time.