Discussion Forum > On Work versus Play
Lefty:
Yes, I like that one. I might use it on the "To Think About" section in the left margin.
Yes, I like that one. I might use it on the "To Think About" section in the left margin.
May 9, 2009 at 6:38 |
Mark Forster
Mark Forster
Lefty, I'm a Mark Twain fan - here's one along the same lines:
"What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. Who was it who said, "Blessed is the man who has found his work"? Whoever it was he had the right idea in his mind. Mark you, he says his work--not somebody else's work. The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. Cursed is the man who has found some other man's work and cannot lose it. When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world. The fellows who groan and sweat under the weary load of toil that they bear never can hope to do anything great. How can they when their souls are in a ferment of revolt against the employment of their hands and brains? The product of slavery, intellectual or physical, can never be great."
"What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. Who was it who said, "Blessed is the man who has found his work"? Whoever it was he had the right idea in his mind. Mark you, he says his work--not somebody else's work. The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. Cursed is the man who has found some other man's work and cannot lose it. When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world. The fellows who groan and sweat under the weary load of toil that they bear never can hope to do anything great. How can they when their souls are in a ferment of revolt against the employment of their hands and brains? The product of slavery, intellectual or physical, can never be great."
May 9, 2009 at 14:17 |
Jacqueline
Jacqueline
Hi Jacqueling
That is my logic behind my daily 90minute scut cap!
learning as I go
That is my logic behind my daily 90minute scut cap!
learning as I go
May 9, 2009 at 15:48 |
learning as I go
learning as I go
Jacqueline
sorry for the typo...no disrespect intended
learning as I go
sorry for the typo...no disrespect intended
learning as I go
May 9, 2009 at 15:50 |
learning as I go
learning as I go
"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 his is working or playing. To him, he's always doing both."--James Michener
This seems to reflect my own attitude pretty well...