Jim Evans Quotes

Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.

I'm in this wonderful place of life, where everything I'm doing is something I do because I enjoy it.

I would like my kids to follow their bliss.

Life is too short to be doing work that doesn't make you feel happy and fulfilled. I'd rather wait for the right project, as opposed to just taking whatever is handed to me.

It's kind of not about the quality of the art, as much as this is what I love doing and I'd have a worse time doing anything else. That's kind of as far as I think in terms of philosophy.

The minute you decide to do what you love to do, you have made a life plan for yourself and a career choice.

The ultimate dream in life is to be able to do what you love and learn something from it.

I don't want to spend my life doing jobs that I don't care about.

One thing young people have to always keep in mind when deciding what they want to do with their lives is, is it fun? Is it something that I'm interested in? Is it something I enjoy?

The only thing that I am ambitious about is to live a good life. Full stop.

I read a quote by James Dean when I was 17; he said, 'I'd rather starve than do a whole bunch of work that I don't care about.' The older I got, the more I understood what he was saying. If I want to do a whole lot of work that I don't care about, then I would probably be working in a law office somewhere.

Like what you do, if you don't like it, do something else.

I feel really lucky that I'm able to pursue the work that I love. I want my children to see that. I want them to have that for themselves, something that they love, that they do, that they pursue in their lives as a way of growing and learning.

Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy.

It's weird. I don't really have goals. I just try to make sure I'm enjoying what I'm doing. Once I start to get sick of it, the next thing becomes obvious.

Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you'll be a happy person.

To me, spending your life doing what you love is a gift. Everyone enjoys different walks of life, so find what you love to do and try to make a living at it.

I couldn't do anything I didn't enjoy.

You only have one life and if you're not doing what you love, what's the point?

I'm absolutely doing what I enjoy.

I made up my mind several years ago that I had worked very hard to get to where I am in life and that I was only going to do things that are fun and exciting.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness

I do things that I actually love and understand.

When it comes to anything you want to do in your life, you have to be passionate. Success may come, but in the end, the most important thing is that you are doing what you really want to do.

I'm not a masochist. I'm simply into trying to enjoy what I do, because otherwise there's no point.