Work And Play Quotes - Page 2

• Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.

  Denis Waitley

  Fathers Day, Work, Careers

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• I simply do not distinguish between work and play.

  Mary Oliver

  Play

  FaceBook post by Mary Oliver from Dec 23, 2016

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• I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

  Stephen Leacock

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.91, University of Toronto Press

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• I’m lucky to have the kind of life where the differentiation between work and play is absolutely zilch. I have no idea whether I’m working or whether I’m playing.

  Peter Cundill

  Play, Ideas, Lucky

  "There's Always Something to Do", www.businessinsider.com. May 9, 2011.

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• The harder I work the more I live.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Work, Good Luck, True Joy

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• I think this dichotomy or opposition between work and play, between leisure and serious stuff, is definitely a bad way of thinking about the useful insights that play provides.

  Ian Bogost

  Thinking, Play, Stuff

  Source: app.longform.org

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• If you wish to begin life at forty, you must settle two large personal questions first of all. You must find work and play that call for no more energy than you can afford to spend on them. Then you must train your mind, eye and hand to the point of working and playing with ease, grace and precision.

  Walter B. Pitkin

  Eye, Hands, Play

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• Being a professional woman, I function the best when I don't distinguish between work and play.

  Cristina Saralegui

  Play, Function

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• Work and play can be the same. When you are following your energy and doing what you want to do all the time, the distinction between work and play dissolves. Work is no longer what you have to do, and play what you want to do. When you are doing what you love, you may work harder and produce more than ever before, because you are having fun.

  Shakti Gawain

  Fun, Work, Love You

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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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• A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between work and play.

  L. P. Jacks

  Art, Play, Masters

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• When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

  Henry J. Kaiser

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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

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

  Louisa May Alcott

  Play Time, Little Women, Wells

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

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

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

  Work, Play, Literature

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• Unnecessary hustle is one of the American follies. We hustle at both work and play, and consequently enjoy neither to the utmost.

  William Feather

  Play, Hustle, Action

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• Success is a balance thing, it's about work and play together, so we need to work on how we embrace that. The conversation we need to keep having is how women and businesses learn to embrace women having children.

  Mary Portas

  Children, Play, Balance

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• You can't be genuinely prosperous unless you have personal freedom. You will have attained true personal freedom in this world when you can get up in the morning when you want to get up; go to sleep when you want to go to sleep; and in the interval, work and play at the things you want to work and play at - all at your own pace.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Morning, Sleep, Play

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• Learn all you can about people in other parts of the world. Understanding how people in other countries live and work and play teaches us to respect them and promote peace everywhere.

  Carol Bellamy

  Country, Play, People

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• The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Creativity, Self, Play

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.52, Penguin

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• I try to balance work and play. I'm really grateful that I can kind of have that philosophy, so I can try to get out of the city as much as possible, even though I love the city and I'm not ready to leave it.

  Jorja Fox

  Philosophy, Grateful, Play

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• Man appears for a little while to laugh and weep, to work and play, and then to go to make room for those who shall follow him in the never-ending cycle.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Play, Laughing

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.55, Fig

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• Some people think that mathematics is a serious business that must always be cold and dry; but we think mathematics is fun, and we aren't ashamed to admit the fact. Why should a strict boundary line be drawn between work and play? Concrete mathematics is full of appealing patterns; the manipulations are not always easy, but the answers can be astonishingly attractive.

  Ronald Graham

  Education, Fun, Math

  Ronald L. Graham, Donald Ervin Knuth, Oren Patashnik (1989). “Concrete mathematics: a foundation for computer science”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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• Let your intentions be good - embodied in good thoughts, cheerful words, and unselfish deeds - and the world will be to you a bright and happy place in which to work and play and serve

  Grenville Kleiser

  Love, Life, Family

  Grenville Kleiser (1949). “Make Your Life Worth Living”

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