"Your soul doesn't care what you do for a living - and when your life is over, neither will you. Your soul cares only about what you are being while you are doing whatever you are doing." Neale Donald Walsch

"The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does." Napoleon Hill

"Nobody ever drowned in sweat." US Marines

"A person will be called to account on Judgement Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not." Talmud

"Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself." Bill Gates

"What a pitiable thing it is that our civilization can do no better for us than to make us slaves to indoor life, so that we have to go and take artificial exercise in order to preserve our health." George Wharton James, journalist, author, and speaker (1858-1923)

"Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems." Bill Watterson (1958 -)

"Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job." Franklin P. Jones

"The difference between networking and not working is one letter. " Unknown

"When you can do anything as though you work at nothing you have the best days of your life." Karen Maezan Miller, Momma Zen

"The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands." Benjamin Franklin

"The work you find yourself doing while you're procrastinating is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your life." Jessica Hische

"An hour of hard critical thinking can be worth more than a month of hard work." Tim Ferriss

"The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart." George Sand

"If you've had a good time playing the game, you're a winner even if you lose." Malcolm Forbes

"A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine." Unknown

"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it." Ellen Goodman

"The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest." Albert Einstein

"Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.
" Steven Wright



"If you're going to do good work, the work has to scare you."Andre Previn

"Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc., and all that dolphins do is swim in the water, eat fish and play around. Dolphins believe that they are smarter for exactly the same reasons." Douglas Adams, writer, dramatist, and musician (1952-2001)

"Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold." Joseph Chilton Pearce

"A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work." John Lubbock

"See the job. Do the job. Stay out of misery." Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

"It has to be fun. Whimsy and wonder are important. Keeping things light makes it easier for people to look at them." Heather Kent

"Working with metaphor involves the skill of transforming one thing into another that is more valuable. Metaphors are intimately connected to the concept of transformation; in ancient Greek, the word metaphor means a transformer. Children naturally transform so many things they encounter around them. With imaginative boldness, the turn bed pillows into mountains, a cardboard box into a ship, and a blanket into an ocean to sail across. Like children, we need to use the power of metaphor to touch the inner truths of the images we create, because metaphor is the authentic reflection of artistic creativity. Like art, it is dynamic, has not strict rules about meaning, and is by nature fluid and flexible." Cathy Malchiodi

"Music is purposeless play, an affirmation of life, not an attempt to bring order out of chaos nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply a way of waking up to the very life we're living." John Cage

"Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat."Ann Landers

"The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play." Arnold Toynbee

"You are not here merely to make a living. you are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand." Woodrow Wilson

"Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age." George Burns (1896 - 1996)

"The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play." Arnold Toynbee

“Take your mind out every now and then and dance on it. It is getting all caked up.” Mark Twain

“Play is an experiment without hypothesis.” Peter London

"The older I get, the more I think all that matters is working with people you like.” Eric Schmidt

“When the task is done beforehand, then it is easy.” Yuantong

"Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?" J. Paul Getty

“Creative people are curious, flexible, persistent and independent with a tremendous spirit of adventure and a love of play.” Henri Matisse

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

"If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun." Katharine Hepburn

"One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community." Albert Einstein

"Anything on earth you want to do is play. Anything on earth you have to do is work. Play will never kill you, work will. I never worked a day in my life." Dr. Leila Denmark, age: 100

"Have regular hours for work and play, make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets and life will become a beautiful success." Louisa May Alcott

"Play is not only to be enjoyed but to be accorded high value for its fundamental role in the success of all organisms, including humans." Paul Grobstein, Bryn Mawr College professor, Variability in Brain Function and Behavior

“Life without industry is guilt, industry without art is brutality.” John Ruskin, author, art critic, and social reformer (1819-1900)

“Doing what you love is freedom. Loving what you do is happiness.” Fortune cookie

“The real essence of work is concentrated energy.” Walter Begehot

“Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.” May Sarton

“There is no pleasure in having nothing to do, the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.” John W. Raper

“It is a happy talent to know how to play.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.” John Cleese, comic actor (1939- )

“Spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good... give it, give it all, give it now.” Annie Dillard

“It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.” Leo Buscaglia, author (1924-1998)

“Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Continue to learn. Appreciate your friends. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.” Mary Anne Roadacher-Hershey

“We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” George Bernard Shaw