I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.
The Christian shoemaker does his duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good shoes, because God is interested in good craftsmanship.
Work, Finish, Publish.
Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you're going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
If a thing is useful they call it work, if useless they call it play. One is as hard as the other. One can be just as much a game as the other.
I have worked for the fun of working and because work became a habit with me.
Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.
We must cultivate our garden.
Our labour preserves us from three great evils - weariness, vice, and want.
Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress; working hard for something we love is called passion.
Focus on being productive instead of busy.
If you don't produce, you won't thrive — no matter how skilled or talented you are.
Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig.
Workaholics aren't heroes. They don't save the day, they just use it up. The real hero is home because she figured out a faster way.
If you want something done, ask the busiest person you know. They'll find a way to get it done. The less time they have, the less time they waste.
It is necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Every time you sit down to work, remind yourself: I am delaying gratification by doing this.
Each of us needs to put ourselves in a position to accomplish our work, which means finding stillness.
Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants.
