Enjoyable Work Quotes

I believe that the creative impulse is natural in all human beings, and that it is particularly powerful in children unless it is suppressed. Consequently, one is behaving normally and instinctively and healthily when one is creating - literature, art, music, or whatever. An excellent cook is also creative! I am disturbed that a natural human inclination [creative work] should, by some Freudian turn of phrase, be considered compulsive - perhaps even pathological. To me this is a complete misreading of the human enterprise. One should also enjoy one's work, and look forward to it daily.

I had a great time working on the movies, both the major movies I've done. I've had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.

The people who worked in comics were terrific guys. I had a good association with them, and I enjoyed comics for that very reason.

I'm not digging tunnels, I'm not building buildings. My work is not hard, my work is refreshing, my work is pleasant. The more the better. Lying around and getting no job is debilitating.

Building Oracle is like doing math puzzles as a kid.

Human beings are of two classes: those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and those whose work and pleasure are one.

So it's not a thing that's a struggle. It's work, but it's not a struggle. It's fun. And she had a very particular way of emphasizing points and making her point, and that had to do with bringing out a word that you didn't normally think was the most important word in the sentence.

I only take on roles that I'm passionate about. Life is too short to do things that you're not happy with.

I've been really lucky in that I've been able to work so much, and pretty much everything I've done has been really great fun.

It's very simple... this banging around with a camera and typewriter as a business is just one helluva lot of fun.

I had a great time working with Denis [Villeneuve] and the whole group. It was a very different kind of a part [in Story of Your Life] than I've played in a while. But I had great fun; and yes, it was really nice not to have to answer to anybody about that.

My work is a game, a very serious game.

My life has been happy because I have had wonderful friends and plenty of interesting work to do.

I'm loving every second working with the brilliant Kayvan Novak; it's a hoot from dawn to dusk!

Music never felt like a job.

I'm just looking for a kind of project that will have a decent role and is something that I'll really enjoy doing. There are a lot more opportunities in television.

Like with 'Parks and Recreation,' it's so much fun because the people writing it are funny and they're open and you just go in there and have a good time. It's pretty much the easiest job I've ever had.

Work without fun is like peanut butter without jelly.

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

To me, it's not work. When I draw and I write, I find it relaxing. It's not like 9-to-5, where a man goes to a job and he isn't really interested in the job. Luckily, I get paid for doing what I'd do for nothing.

That job [on Out to Sea], more than any I've ever done, I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning. And not only that, but I had a great part. So it was just beyond fun on every level.

If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.

Anyone that enjoys his work is a pleasure to work with.

And then it was working with Bob Hoskins, who I had never worked with before - except radio. It was like being given a wonderful meal - full of the things you love most.

I cannot imagine a more enjoyable place to work than in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology where I work.