A Quote by Albert Einstein

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. One should earn one's living by work of which one is sure one is capable. Only when we do not have to be accountable to anybody can we find joy in scientific endeavor.

Albert Einstein

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Albert Einstein
German - Physicist
March 14, 1879 - April 18, 1955

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

Albert Einstein

Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure.

Mortimer Adler

I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.

Vidal Sassoon

I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation - that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno - I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Luis Bunuel

If a man or a woman puts in an honest day's work, they should to be able to earn a living wage.

Richard J. Codey

When Kentuckians work hard, they should be able to get ahead and earn a good living for their family.

Andy Beshear

The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living.

Owen D. Young

The great thing is these days I no longer have to work for a living and that all of the things that I'm able to do where money is paid as compensation for whatever it be, I'm able to donate all of that to charity. That's a wonderful position to find yourself in at the latest stages of your life and I'm proud to have walked the path that I have and I'm proud to be able to continue working and to be able to give away what I earn to some very good causes here in the Southwest.

Robin Leach

If I could earn the living that I earn in motion pictures and television in the theater, I'd be doing theater. But you can't. Nor come even close to it.

Robert Vaughn

I am a commercial artist because I paint to earn a living. We who earn money from what we produce are all commercial artists.

Jack White

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

Herbert Hoover

In the international contest of ideologies, it is not assured that ours will win; we have to earn the winner's laurel generation by generation. One way we earn it is by living our values as the world watches.

Sheldon Whitehouse

I awaken in the morning with confidence, rejoicing in whatever work is given to me to do. Whatever that work is, I do it, not in order to earn a living or in a sense of performing an onerous duty; but, with joy and gladness, I let it unfold as the activity of God's expression through me.

Joel S. Goldsmith

I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.