Don Johnson Quotes

When work is not going well, it's useful to remember that our identities stretch beyond what is on the business card, that we were people long before we became workers - and will continue to be human once we have put our tools down forever.

You don't need to be defined by your job.

I like my job but it's not who I am.

I didn't want to lose my sense of myself in my profession.

A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.

I don't want my tombstone to say actress. I want it to say human being.

What I did for a living for so many years separated who I was from what I did.

I never wanted to be defined by what I did for a living.

I think living in our culture right now, there's a universal experience where we feel like we become what we do. Sometimes that's rewarding and sometimes that creates an existential crisis.

Some people are defined by what they do.

I think of my career as something apart from myself.

This is not me, WWE doesn't define who Ashley is.

When it really comes down to it, the job you do is more important and is more representative of who you are than your sexuality or anything else that you have going on in your life.

I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.

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.

If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.

You question, as anybody should, the overarching worth of your profession, right? So that's a question I've often asked myself.

The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.

If I'm not a successful human being, who I am?

I consider myself a human being, a Christian, a father, a husband, so many things, before being a black person.

It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.

I am not fundamentally a musician, I am fundamentally a human being.

When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.

I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.

Work defines our lives and our place in the world.