It just seems there's better things to do in your life than be on television if it's not interesting, if it's not challenging, if it's not fun. You know? When it stops being those things for me, I'll stop making television.
One source of frustration in the workplace is the frequent mismatch between what people must do and what people can do. When what they must do exceeds their capabilities, the result is anxiety. When what they must do falls short of their capabilities, the result is boredom. But when the match is just right, the results can be glorious. This is the essence of flow.
The 35-hour week has from the moment of its inception been a massive mistake. We need to return to people the joy of work.
The only way people will have the trust to give their all to their job is if they feel like their contribution is recognized and valued.
People who have at least three or four very close friendships are healthier, have higher wellbeing, and are more engaged in their jobs. But the absence of any close friendships can lead to boredom, loneliness, and depression.
When you’re doing work you care about, you are able to work harder and better.
There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.
I feel like, in general in my work life, my main goal has been to just be in a situation where I'm not bored with my job. That's been the entire principle. Got my wish.
When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.
I was bored one day, so my dad took me to this acting school. I liked it more than having fun - I liked it for an actual job.
Working a job I love is mentally less stressful than punching in a clock everyday, but it's a lot busier.
When I work, I enjoy myself and feel happy.
I think that if you don't enjoy doing something you are not going to be good at it.
It's more important that you be passionate about what you do all day than it is to be passionate about the product that is being sold.
Work is much more fun than fun.
But now I really don't want to work unless I really, really care about a project.
If we do not like our work, and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession as well as to ourselves.
I am very much married to the job.
It is a high bar to say that it's more fun than working on software because the work at Microsoft that both Melinda [Gates] and I did was thrilling. We were making breakthroughs and empowering people.
I need to feel like the work I'm doing is not necessarily important, but meaningful, at least to me, because otherwise it just becomes a day job. It just becomes factory work and I get really frustrated.
You learn very quickly where you feel fulfilled and where you don't.
I'm the type who'd rather not work than work on something I'm not into. I've done that a couple of times, and I feel like I can totally see it in my performance.
We should strive to be employed in such a way that we don't realize that what we're doing is work.
When you ask people about what they enjoy doing, time spent with the boss is even worse than time spent cleaning the house. So this suggests that there are a lot of leaders out there who are not doing an adequate job.
If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.
