Donald Hall Quotes

For myself, personally, I am never really aware of timing or anything because I am passionate about what I do, so I have found that if you really love what you do, then time flies.

I am never so happy as when I am really engaged in good earnest, & it makes me must wonderfully cheerful & merry at other times, which is curious & very satisfactory.

I've never worked on anything that I haven't in some way enjoyed.

Joy & Satisfaction Show Up More Frequently & on Time when you have Passion

If you love what you do, then you always find the time.

The days you work are the best days.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

I want to be happy. I realized that being happy isn't necessarily about getting there, it's how you get there. It almost sounds like a cliche, but every entrepreneur I've talked to - every good entrepreneur - really enjoys the 'how you get here.'

It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.

I feel true success comes from being able to work and the love for it.

My goal, with whatever I'm working on, is to lose track of time.

I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.

I'm the kind of person that likes what I'm doing when I'm doing it.

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

It is not sacrifice if you love what you're doing.

There has to be a level of joy of what you're doing.

Time goes a lot quicker when the work is a lot more enjoyable.

Strengths are not activities you're good at, they're activities that strengthen you. A strength is an activity that before you're doing it you look forward to doing it; while you're doing it, time goes by quickly and you can concentrate; after you've done it, it seems to fulfill a need of yours.

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

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

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

There's no point in working if I'm not involved and interested.

I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don't work. When you clean your house, you don't get tired; it gives you satisfaction.

I think there's nothing that makes you happier than to be really involved in something.