Gil Scott-Heron Quotes

If you're not having fun - I don't care what you're doing - don't do it. Move on. Find something else, life's too short.

I'm 47, You learn life is short and it's not worth doing something if you don't enjoy it.

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.

The choice is yours: Do you want to exist, or do you want to live?

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

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

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

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

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

All of us want to live, and that is absolutely natural. However, we should learn from childhood on to choose our best way to die. If we don't do that, we end up spending our days like a dog, only in search of harbour, food and expressing a blind loyalty to his owner in return. That isn't enough to make our lives have a meaning.

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.

You don't get old until you replace dreams with regrets.

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money.

I learned a valuable life lesson that summer. You should find something in life that you really enjoy and seriously consider making that your life's work.

You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

If you have only one life, you can't altogether ignore the question: are you enjoying it?

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.

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

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

I'm still having fun, and I'm doing something and I'm seeing the world! I wasn't massively ambitious, but I did always want to do the best I could do.

My mom always told me if I love what I'm doing, and I'm having fun, then just continue to do it. But if it's not fun for me anymore, and I'm miserable, then I'm going to go back to Texas and quit it all, to be honest.

Work takes on new meaning when you feel you are pointed in the right direction. Otherwise, it's just a job, and life is too short for that.