Those who devote their lives to earning a living are incapable of living a human existence.
I have plenty of enemies... among artists who resent my earning a living. They think I should go off and starve while painting something 'significant.
Even when times were good, I realized that my earning power as a golf professional depended on too many ifs and putts.
The average family earning minimum wage spends 141 percent of their income struggling to meet basic needs - food, shelter, clothing.
At the age of 16 I started performing with a dance band in the evenings and began earning more money than my father, but he was pleased for me.
One good test of whether an economy is humanistic or not is the plausibility of earning the ability to drop out of it for a while without incident or insult.
The biggest asset you have is your earning capacity, and that depends entirely on your attitude.
When you reduce taxes on higher earners it's vital to be reducing them on lower earning people as well so the nation shares in the approach.
At 17, I went to Stanford University to study engineering. My time was occupied with the required reading and the extracurricular duties of managing the baseball and football teams and earning my way.
The good thing is that I have always had wonderful people around me. It's dangerous when you start earning a lot of money and you become famous when you are too young.
As precious as knowledge itself is the learning. As precious as any reward is the earning.
Women waited 144 years before earning suffrage. If a mature, multiparty democracy was so darn easy, everybody would have one.
It's important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged.
As a younger man I wrote for eight years without ever earning a nickel which is a long apprenticeship, but in that time I learned a lot about my trade.
If my movies are earning decent numbers, my work is being appreciated, then you might not feel it, but if something bad happens, the onus doesn't come only on actors.
I need to be out earning. I can make more in two hours at a card show than I did [as a minor-league manager] all year.
Its important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged.
It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line.
The summum bonum of this [Puritan] ethic is the earning of more and more money combined with the strict avoidance of all enjoyment.
I loved going to a place like Virginia, making a connection and meeting the people that are outside of the whole basketball realm, and earning my degree from there.
Effective leadership is about earning respect, and it's also about personality and charisma
There are more important ways of earning a living, aren't there? Like being a neurosurgeon. But some plays are very important, aren't they?
Our economy is the result of millions of decisions we all make every day about producing, earning, saving, investing, and spending.
Journalism should never be prostituted for selfish ends or for the sake of merely earning a livelihood or, worse still, for amassing money.
I pay my taxes when I was with ABS-CBN as an actress; when I was with Binibini, so I'll continue on doing that as long as I'm earning money here, like everybody else.
You get a lot of accommodations for being on scholarship, but there is too much money floating around in the NCAA to not be giving it to the people earning it.
The Scoutmaster must be alert to check badge hunting as compared to badge earning.
We must prioritize postsecondary enrollment so that our students are earning degrees and credentials that get them into the workforce and contributing to Connecticut's economy.
While there may have once been a stigma to making money, high-earning women actually have an advantage in the dating-and-marriage market.
You can win with consistent benefits, delivered over time. You win by incrementally earning share, attention and trust.
I've always thought my main concern is to alleviate the burdens on people, who were earning less money, perhaps than £80,000.
I came from a classical background, and I was teaching and earning a living out of music at a certain level, so it's funny to make it as a rock star when we're 40 or whatever.
The hardest thing for young footballers is that you start earning money and you can start copying other players.
I'm a farmer now, and it's fantastic. My goal is to be totally self-sufficient and grow everything that I eat. There's something about earning your dinner that's cool.
The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their own way. We must not create a deterrent to hard work.
Even when we were stuck touring, earning $100 a day, I never thought I'd even make it that far.
Its not about earning a paycheck, its about doing something good that you believe in.
It's not about earning a paycheck, it's about doing something good that you believe in.
My two earliest memories - earning little buttons on our skates when we learned how to skate from one end of the ice to the other and when I first lifted the puck.
I always believe in earning love. I consider unconditional love to be one of the worst ideas developed
One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
Investigate carefully before you invest. Spend as much time researching the investment as you spend earning the money.
Summer School: Never stop learnin' if you want to stop earnin'. I'm reasonably sure there G's in learning and earning.
Americans of all ages are earning less than they did two decades ago when adjusted for inflation. Yet they’re paying more in taxes.
Men spend the best parts of their lives earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it.
Youth should have access to paid internships or jobs year-round, so they can keep developing important skills and earning income.
A high school and college degree are linked to greater employment prospects, higher earning potential, and the ability to contribute more to our communities.
I have no ambitions beyond being comfortable in what I do for a living - and earning a living.
I would say the best Croatian player in 2014 was Ivan Rakitic, leading Sevilla to Europa League glory and earning a big transfer to Barcelona.
CEOs who boldly lean into fulfilling the dual mandate of earning profits and providing societal benefits will find a receptive public.
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 you want to pay off your debts, it pays to increase your earning power.
To only a fraction of the human race does God give the privilege of earning one's bread doing what one would have gladly pursued free, for passion.
I am running for my Senate district in 2014 and looking forward hopefully to earning the confidence of my community once again and being reelected for that seat.
The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) was asked what type of earning was best, and he replied: " A man's work with his hands and every (lawful) business transaction."
Do you really expect me to say gravity hasn't taken its toll? No. But as I'm earning these lines [in my face], I'm making an aesthetic choice.
When suddenly everybody is guessing, or some even getting close, to the ballpark of what you're earning - well, that's interesting, that everyone knows what you make.
Your time as the entrepreneur is worth hundreds of dollars an hour. If you are doing tasks you could hire out, those are stopping you from earning that kind of money.
If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.
There was a deficit between what I was earning and what my family needed to live off. I was resigned to the fact that, while I may do the odd night, I was going to have to get a proper job.
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