Dissipation Quote by Mark Twain

Being productive at work is rewarding, and feeling supported, challenged, and appreciated allows us to be our most efficient selves.

— Julia Hartz

One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance

— Whitfield Diffie

Skilled work, of no matter what kind, is only done well by those who take a certain pleasure in it, quite apart from its…

— Bertrand Russell

“Intellectual 'work' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward. The poorest paid architect, engineer, general, author, sculptor,…

— Mark Twain

Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live-that productive work is the process by which man's…

— Ayn Rand

Intellectual work is an act of creation. It is as if the mental image that is studied over a period of time were to…

— Santiago Ramon y Cajal

“because there is complexity, autonomy, and a relationship between effort and reward in doing creative work,”

— Malcolm Gladwell

A work can have in it a pent-up energy, an intense life of its own, independent of the subject it may represent.

— Henry Moore

I work for creative satisfaction. It's my hunger for good work that motivates me to explore.

— Mohit Raina

the reward of our work is not what we get, but what we become

— Paulo Coelho

If you can find a way to make a living doing something you enjoy, or a range of things that you enjoy, then it…

— Tom Hodgkinson

“What is precious is not the reward but the work. And I wish you to understand that. If you work and study in order…

— Leo Tolstoy