All Work And No Play Quotes

• 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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• All work and no play is not good for the soul

  Felix Sabates

  Work, Play, Soul

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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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• 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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• You've got to stay focused without being boring - because all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Skinny, but dull.

  LL Cool J

  Boys, Play, Dull

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

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

  Work, Play, Literature

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• You may try your experiment for a week and see how you like it. I think by Saturday night you will find that all play and no work is as bad as all work and no play

  Louisa May Alcott

  Night, Thinking, Play

  Louisa May Alcott (2014). “Little Women”, p.118, Trajectory Inc

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• All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse.

  Samuel Smiles

  Boys, Play, Dull

  Samuel Smiles (2009). “Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.473, The Floating Press

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• All work and no play makes jack. With enough jack, Jack needn't be a dull boy.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Money, Boys, Play

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• Sleeping is forbidden at the age of 22. It's all work and no play.

  Usher

  Sleep, Play, Age

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• All work and no play make any forensic pathologist a dull boy.

  Hill Harper

  Boys, Play, Dull

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• As if a man's soul were not too small to begin with, they have dwarfed an narrowed theirs by a life of all work and no play; until here they are at forty, with a listless attention, a mind vacant of all material of amusement, and not one thought to rub against another, while they wait for the train.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Men, Play, Waiting

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.4581, e-artnow

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• All work and no play may make Jim a dull boy, but no work and all play makes Jim all kinds of a jackass.

  William Randolph Hearst

  Boys, Play, Dull

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• Perhaps it is this theory of all work and no play that has made the Marxist such a very dull boy.

  Herbert Read

  Boys, Play, Dull

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