Quote

I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word - for love, because I love it. On the other hand, I think that those of us who make our living writing history can also be called true professionals.

I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.

The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. An amateur has amateur habits. A professional has professional habits. We can never free ourselves from habit. But we can replace bad habits with good ones.

It's different when you become a professional, because you also have to become a businessman, and that takes something away from it.

I simply do not distinguish between work and play.

Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.

But most is all to do with work. There are aspects of work that are enjoyable, that you could call a hobby.

It's less about what you do and more about who you are doing it with.

My job is what millions of people do for recreation. How can you not like that?