A Quote by Samuel Smiles

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

Samuel Smiles

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Samuel Smiles
Scottish - Author
December 23, 1812 - April 16, 1904

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

Malcolm Forbes

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

Stanley Kubrick

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

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

Evan Esar

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

All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

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

Hill Harper

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

Herbert Read

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

Work with good directors. Without them your play is doomed. At the time of my first play, I thought a good director was someone who liked my play. I was rudely awakened from that fantasy when he directed it as if he loathed it. . . . Work with good actors. A good actor hears the way you (and no one else) write. A good actor makes rewrites easy. A good actor tells you things about your play you didn't know.

Terrence McNally

The most fascinating powers don't mean a thing if the guy's poorly motivated or dull, and the most generic powers won't hurt a well-motivated character. Personality and motivation are what make Magneto, Magneto and not Cosmic Boy. The powers work for him, but it's his motivation that makes him the character he is.

Kurt Busiek

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

A lot of people don't think I can play. It doesn't really bother me, truthfully. If anything, it just motivates me. It makes me work harder, makes me kind of have a chip on my shoulder.

Matt Leinart

All play and no work makes me a happy girl

Carole Radziwill

Work, as we usually think of it, is energy expended for a further end in view; play is energy expended for its own sake, as with children's play, or as manifestation of the end or goal of work, as in "playing" chess or the piano. Play in this sense, then, is the fulfillment of work, the exhibition of what the work has been done for.