Meaningful tasks Quotes

If you're doing creative work, that work should never feel trivial - even if what you're doing is for hire or lightly intended. Even the mundane doesn't have to be trivial.

A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's a day you've had everything to do and you've done it.

Lose no time; be always employed in something useful.

Often people fail to start or complete a task because they don't see any connection between what they're doing and what they really want to accomplish in life.

Everything I do that I'm enthusiastic about. This is genuine enthusiasm. If I don't - I mean I've done other projects that I have not been a fan of until I realized I was doing it and I wasn't really there. And I don't do those anymore.

I love working with smart people and being challenged. I also like working on stuff that's relevant. That's my adrenaline shot.

When a man, a woman, see their little daily tasks as integral portions of the one great work, they are no longer drudges but co-workers with God.

We work on things that really matter.

All of us perform better and more willingly when we know why we're doing what we have been told or asked to do.

I don't just write a script, and then someone takes it away and builds a game. I am continually getting input in order to create a big suspension field to hold the gameplay together so that the gamers aren't doing arbitrary tasks, so that they are doing things that seem meaningful.