Terry Gross Quotes

I've worked every day since I was 10. I don't know how to do anything else. There is nothing else I'd rather be doing.

I work on holidays. I work on birthdays. I work on New Year's. I work. I keep my ears to the streets.

Baseball is not what I love. It's my job.

I remember telling my dad, 'I'm working 14- to 16-hour days and I don't care. I can't wait to get back to work.'

I love to do what I do. So, I do work long hours.

To do this job, you really have to love what you're doing.

And the reason I came to IBM was I think - I always say at a really early age, I learned you've got to be passionate about what you do. No matter what it is, you put too much, your heart and soul in it, you have to be passionate about it. You make too many sacrifices.

I love what I do. I work a lot, I work all the time, but I love it.

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

I'm choosy to a fault. You want to hold out for a project that means something. You're the one who's there working fifteen hours a day, and if you don't believe in it, it can feel a whole lot longer.

I'm a workaholic. I could easily work 300-plus days of the year.

I can't tell you how many times I quit only to realize that when the work has been your life, you don't really have a life without it.

I think it's nice to do work that is vaguely compromising to your health because it means you really care about it.

I love what I do, and I do it 24/7, and it hurts my relationships very often, but it's worth it.

I love what I do; I want to continue doing it, I work hard at my job.

I need to love what I do, because I'm going to give 110 percent. I'm going to be working from 6 in the morning until 10 P.M., so I need to make sure I like it.

I often work seven days a week. I'm not looking for a pat on the back because I love what I do.

You have to be very committed and find happiness in the work that you do.

Everyone makes sacrifices for their job; the movie's not saying that you don't have to work hard. The movie is saying that if you're going to work hard, then make it worth it, believe in what you're doing.

I've always thought I've got to work and I want to work. When I was younger I had friends who on a Saturday would be going out to the shops but I was working from 8.30am to 6.30pm. I w

For 42 years, I worked nonstop from 7 A.M. to 5 P.M., day in and day out.

I've always been a workaholic. I reckon, on average, I've had less than one day a year off in my working career.

I'm not a T.G.I.F. guy. I get off a plane at 2 o'clock in the morning and I'm looking for my secretary because I want to know what's going on.

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.

To get to be somebody who gets to love what they do for a living, that's so rare, and so there must be some kind of price you have to pay.