Joan Cusack Quotes

Finding meaning in your work is your responsibility. Any job can be better when you actively work to find meaning in the work.

For most people, life would be boring without meaningful work.

No-one works for money alone and tapping into what people want from their careers and what they have to offer is essential.

People don't just come to work to make money; they need satisfaction.

Work isn't meaningful just because you spend your life doing it.

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

The purpose of work is not to make money. The purpose of work is to make the workers, whether working stiffs or top executives, feel good about life.

I need to feel like the work I'm doing is not necessarily important, but meaningful, at least to me, because otherwise it just becomes a day job. It just becomes factory work and I get really frustrated.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

I don't see the point in working just to be working.

I want to do work that means something to me so that when I go to work at the theater eight times a week, I want to be there.

Work certainly does help fill a void.

In the end, I need to be fulfilled in my work - that's more important than the money.

I feel like, in general in my work life, my main goal has been to just be in a situation where I'm not bored with my job. That's been the entire principle. Got my wish.

I just want to do stuff that gives me work satisfaction.

To have meaningful work is a tremendous happiness.

While the women of the older generation were thankful if only they succeeded in obtaining 'a work and a duty,' however monotonous and wearing it might be, the will of the younger generation for a pleasurable labour has fortunately increased.

We should strive to be employed in such a way that we don't realize that what we're doing is work.

I don't really have a career plan. There's no joy for me to just be a personality in my work, and I feel that that's so much of what's out there.

It's a blessing to have work that feels fulfilling.

If the work is going well and it's something that has value with some meaning to it, it gives back a lot.

We tend to think that employment is employment, and we don't ask the question: is this rewarding employment? Research establishes pretty clearly that typical notions of happiness - that more is better - really don't correspond to the way people think and feel.

After all, a job isn't worth doing unless you enjoy it.

I've learned to take jobs as an actress that is meaningful to me because I've never taken a job for the money.

In economic terms, we've always thought of work as a disutility - as something you do to get something else. Now it's increasingly a utility - something that's valuable and worthy in its own right.