Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary.
Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.
Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.
There must be bands of enthusiasts for everything on earth-fanatics who shared a vocabulary, a batch of technical skills and equipment, and, perhaps, a vision of some single slice of the beauty and mystery of things, of their complexity, fascination, and unexpectedness.
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known.
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
Work is a world apart from jobs. Work is the way you occupy your mind and hand and eye and whole body when they're informed by your imagination.
I believe in my work and in the joy of it. You have to be with the work and the work has to be with you. It absorbs you totally and you absorb it totally.
Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.
To love what you do and feel that it matters-how could anything be more fun?
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
Winning the [Nobel] prize wasn't half as exciting as doing the work itself.
Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
Workaholics are energized rather than enervated by their work-their energy paradoxically expands as it is expended.
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.
Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.
Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Half effort does not produce half results, it produces no results. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.
