Enjoyment of Work Quotes

A woman at the Limited once asked me, 'Why do you work?' She said, 'You made a lot of money as a young man, so why are you still working?' I had never thought about it before. Forced to consider it, I told her, 'You know why? Because I think that if you stop to smell the roses, you'll get hit by a truck.'

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

I have no plans to retire. It's the perfect combination of work and play that keeps you young. If I quit work it would be the beginning of the end for me.

I think it's important to love what you do and have a good time with it. I go to work every day and have a blast.

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.

I don't take myself too seriously. I enjoy what I do. I enjoy making people laugh.

My Vocation is my Vacation. I love what I do.

I think it's important to find the joy in your work and the things that sort of renew that.

I never feel burdened or overwhelmed by my work. People tell you to find something you love for a career, and I have. That makes me feel very lucky.

Life's too short to be spending all your waking hours doing something you're not excited about. And when people are that excited, you can see it in the work.

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

I think one of the greatest joys I have now in my career and in my profession is to be playing at an age where I can appreciate it more than I used to... It's a whole different lens you look through the older you get.

I'm at a place where I want to have fun. I want to be challenged. I want to love the people I work with and continue to appreciate being in the position to work and play and explore.

I do a job I really, really love and I kind of have fun with. People think you can't be grown up unless you're moaning about your job.

The fact of the matter is, when I'm on tour, I'm juggling so hard to keep all the balls in the air that I don't often get to really enjoy what I'm out there doing.

If I don't get the love of the sport back, it's not about winning or losing to me: it's about having fun. If I can wake up and enjoy what I do, it's gonna show in the octagon.

I retire every time I'm done with a movie. Then I go back. You know, I enjoy sleep. But I love to work; it's fun for me. As long as it continues to be fun, and I'm tolerated by the people around me, I will do it.

You've got to love what you do. You've got to like doing it, because it is a lot of your life.

If your work becomes a source of enjoyment and a challenge, it will never seem like work - it will be fun. If you ever feel that your work is a burden, there is no point carrying on with it.

I love every minute of my work.

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

I don't believe I want to retire, because I just enjoy and love my work so much.

I have to focus and keep things together as much as anyone with a real job... It's just that I know, from experience, that the more fun I have doing something that the more successful it will be.

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.