Life Work Quotes

There is not a lot of separation between work and home life.

I've been sacrificing my life for my work for 30 years, and now I want it the other way around. I want to find work that fits into my life and that would be based here.

He who moves not forward, goes backward.

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.

The psychiatrists examine you and ask you about your life and work, and then they decide whether your film can be shown or not. It's a horrible experience.

This really is my life's work, to go where there is suffering.

Work and love these are the basics; waking life is a dream controlled.

I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone.

I have a passion for life that allows me to make the most of my days and fill them with work and play.

For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself.

Look at people in your life as “practice.” The way you react to them allows you to see what you have to work on within yourself.

I've never worked a day in my life. Don't get me wrong. I work at track. If you love what you do, it's not work.

I have the life of Riley. I take my kids to school, do a bit of work in the afternoon, pick my kids up, microwave a meal, hang out with my kids, and work for a couple of hours.

Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen.

Read deeply. Stay open. Continue to wonder.

All my fans tell me what a glamorous life I have, but I tell them how hard I work and how many nights I spend alone with my dogs, eating chicken pot pie in my bedroom.

A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.

What I am proudest of is having a life where work and love are impossible to tell apart.

This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.

There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both.

He who loves his work never labors.

On the bookshelf of life, God is a useful work of reference, always at hand but seldom consulted.

In an unmoored life like mine, sleep and hunger and work arrange themselves to suit themselves, without consulting me.

Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself.

Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work.

Find something in life that you love doing. If you make a lot of money, that's a bonus, and if you don't, you still won't hate going to work.

Work like hell, tell everyone everything you know, close a deal with a handshake, and have fun.

We spent our lives making livings.

The only thing I can't do is hear. I can drive, I have a life with four kids, I work on TV, I do movies, so the deafness question, is it that they want to know because, what? Not sure.

If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.

Libertarians understand a very simple fact of life: Government doesn't work. It can't deliver the mail on time, it doesn't keep our cities safe, it doesn't educate our children properly.

Failure of your company is not failure in life. Failure in your relationships is.

All of a sudden I was living what is perceived to be the model life. It was just full-on, 24 hours a day. It was work all the time. And there's always a party to go to.

There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life.

The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.

You must build your life as if it were a work of art.

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.

My life and work are not separate. I just have more roles than other people. And I have photographs.

Either you will make your life work, or your life will not work.

To have all your life's work and to have them along the wall, it's like walking in with no clothes on. It's terrible.

Honestly, I have had to live like a high priestess in this show. It is a very, very lonely life. When you work the way I work - that means hard - there's no time for play.

Man must have fires in his life: Fire of love; fire of work; fire of doing kindness... Without fires, man is just a cold rock!

You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading.

God continues to work miracles in my life.

Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets.

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

I live my life parallel with my work, and they are both equally important. I'm always amazed how much people talk about celebrity and fame. I don't understand the attraction.

Fitting in is boring. But it takes you nearly your whole life to work that out.

My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.