Misattributed to Confucius since at least 1985; correct origins are dubious, as mentioned in "Choose a Job You Love, and You Will Never Have To Work a Day in Your Life" at QuoteInvestigator.com (2 September 2014) http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/09/02/job-love/: the oldest English-language use of the proverb has been found in Woolfolk, Ann, "Toshiko Takaezu," Princeton Alumni Weekly, Vol. 83(5), 6 October 1982, p. 32: "Find something you love to do and you’ll never have to work a day in your life." (attributed to Arthur Szathmary, who attributes it, in his turn, to an unnamed source).
Misattributed, Not Chinese
“Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
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“A woman is a full time job. You have to choose your profession.”
Source: Factotum
“All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.”
“In life you must often choose between getting a job done or getting credit for it.”
As quoted in "Some Szilardisms on War, Fame, Peace", LIFE magazine, Vol. 51, no. 9 (1 September 1961), p. 79
Context: In life you must often choose between getting a job done or getting credit for it. In science, the most important thing is not the ideas you have but the decision which ones you choose to pursue. If you have an idea and are not doing anything with it, why spoil someone else's fun by publishing it?
“Choose and choose again every day, who considers you his reason of life.”
Original: Scegli e scegli ancora ogni giorno, chi ti considera la sua ragione di vita.
Source: prevale.net
