Work Play Quotes

• You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

  Warren Beatty

  Teamwork, Wisdom, Fun

  "The Best Liberal Quotes Ever: Why The Left Is Right". Book by William Martin, 2004.

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• You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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  This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

  Alan Watts

  Life, Inspiring, Monday

  Alan Watts (1977). “The essence of Alan Watts”, Celestial Arts Publishing Company

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• The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.

  James A. Michener

  Love, Inspirational, Inspiring

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• The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.40, Delta

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• Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Funny, Life, Motivational

  "An Enemy Called Average". Book by John L. Mason, 1990.

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• The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Inspirational, Determination, Work

  "Mindfulness" edited by Ellen J. Langer, (p. 133), 1989.

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• When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Work, Play Hard, Advice

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.73, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Inspirational, Boys, Play

  Stanley Kubrick, Gene D. Phillips (2001). “Stanley Kubrick: Interviews”, p.137, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy - and Jill a wealthy widow.

  Evan Esar

  Funny, Work, Sarcasm

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• When you're following your energy and doing what you want all the time, the distinction between work and play dissolves.

  Shakti Gawain

  Inspirational, Work, Passion

  Shakti Gawain (1993). “Living in the Light: A Guide to Personal and Planetary Transformation”, Nataraj Publishing

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• Get up. Go to work. Play the game. Get showered. Go home.

  Paul Scholes

  Home, Games, Play

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• Play exists for its own sake. Play is for the moment; it is not hurried, even when the pace is fast and timing seems important. When we play, we also celebrate holy uselessness. Like the calf frolicking in the meadow, we need no pretense or excuses. Work is productive; play, in its disinterestedness and self-forgetting, can be fruitful.

  Margaret Guenther

  Fun, Self, Play

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• The human spirit is more powerful than any drug - and that is what needs to be nourished: with work, play, friendship, family. These are the things that matter.

  Robin Williams

  Life, Powerful, Philosophy

  "Fictional character: Dr Malcolm Sayer". "Awakenings", www.imdb.com. 1990.

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• Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.

  Casey Stengel

  Motivational, Teamwork, Baseball

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• Play is really the work of childhood.

  Fred Rogers

  Play, Childhood, Children Playing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All work and no play doesn't just make Jill and Jack dull, it kills the potential of discovery, mastery, and openness to change and flexibility and it hinders innovation and invention.

  Joline Godfrey

  Creativity, Humor, Playing Games

  Joline Godfrey (1992). “Our wildest dreams: women entrepreneurs making money, having fun, doing good”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

  Mark Twain

  Motivational, Work, Yoga

  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ch. 2 (1876)

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• The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

  Isaac Asimov

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  "Betting On a Bass That Belts Them Out; Singing Fish Becomes Season’s Unlikely Hit" by Darragh Johnson, The Washington Post, July 30, 2000.

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• All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

  Work, Play, Literature

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• Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

  Carl Jung

  Creativity, Play, Imagination

  Carl Jung (2016). “Psychological Types”, p.88, Routledge

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• There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lies happiness.

  Gelett Burgess

  Happiness, Being Happy, Fun

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• What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Moving, Angel

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [316]

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• Prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Play Time, Little Women, Work And Play

  Louisa May Alcott (1872). “Little women, or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. [Followed by Good wives]”, p.111

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• You can love infinity, eternity, Scotty dogs, sports, work, play, the feelings of being alive, the earth, the sky, the fire, the wind ... there's a lot you can love.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sports, Dog, Yoga

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