Earning Living Quotes

There are so many ways of earning a living and most of them are failures.

I just wanted to be a guy who could earn a living as an actor, and I did that for a long time.

Learning to earn a living is only half the job. The other half is to make life worthwhile and meaningful.

My boyhood ambition was to be able to earn my own living, without the help of anybody, anywhere.

Those who devote their lives to earning a living are incapable of living a human existence.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

In the end, art is small beer. The really serious things are earning one's living so as not to be a parasite and loving one's neighbor.

I've been a professional actor now for 38 years. A long time. And it's wonderful to earn your living doing something that you love. To think people actually give you money for it!

When exactly were we brainwashed into believing that the best way to earn a living is to have a job?

No matter what contract anyone is on it is important you are playing football. It is a short career and you have to earn a living but at the same time playing football is the best way to get better contracts anyway.

I do have to earn a living, so I'm conscious of probable reactions from readers, but the most important one is still the awareness that if I'm not enjoying a story, the reader won't either.

As a youngster, I never dreamed there could be a career actually earning a living writing music.

I was earning a living. I was getting into more acting, then 'Coronation Street' came along, and it was the chance of a lifetime.

Positive social awareness among the South African educated half-caste is zero. Teaching is a mechanical job. The best way of earning a living.

If one has to earn a living, therefore, the safest occupation is that most remote from the arts.

There should be more on television that uplifts people and shows them how to better prepare themselves for earning a living. There still aren't enough people that say "this should not be." We just let it go. We need to raise a loud voice about our fellow human beings.

One goes on writing partly because it is the only available way of earning a living. It is a hard way and highly competitive. My heart drops into my bowels when I enter a bookshop and see how fierce the competition is...There is also a privier reason for pushing on, and that is the hopeless hope that someday that intractable enemy language will yield to the struggle to control it... Mastery never comes, and one serves a lifelong apprenticeship. The writer cannot retire from the battle; he dies fighting.