Top 1200 Making A Living Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Art is not to do with the practical side of making a living. It's to live a fuller human life.

Playing live and making a living from music was always the only goal.

Making art now means working in the face of uncertainty; it means living with doubt and contradiction, doing something no one much cares whether you do, and for which there may be neither an audience nor reward. Making the work you want to make means setting aside these doubts so that you may see clearly what you have done, and thereby see where to go next. Making the work you want to make means finding nourishment within the work itself.

Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that.

I don't think of myself as an American Master. I've just been making a living.

Living life is a choice. Making a difference in someone else's isn't.

We suffer from a hallucination, from a false and distorted sensation of our own existence as living organisms. Most of us have the sensation that "I myself" is a seperate center of feeling and action, living inside and bounded by the physical body-a center which "confronts" an "external" world of people and things, making contact through the senses with a universe both alien and strange.

It's easy to let life deteriorate into making a living instead of making a life. It's not the hours you put in, but what you out into the hours that count. Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a me too attitude while impressing evokes a so what attitude.

When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.

It's difficult to beat making your living thinking and writing about subjects that matter to you.

I didn't associate playing tennis with making a living until I was maybe 18 or 19.

Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.

I had writers block for months afterwards because I was just so taken aback by all of the sounds I was hearing. It's almost like hearing the most beautiful music you've ever heard, so you're like, "What's the point of me making anything?" It was this living sonic organism so the idea of recording something just seemed like taking this living thing and mummifying it.

When I saw 'Jurassic Park' as a kid, that was the first time I thought about making movies for a living.

I wasn't interested in making a lot of money, but I was interested in making a lot of living.

We've given up making a living, its all this crazy love poetry now!

Right now the music is more of a hobby since I'm making a good living as an actress.

I'm lucky that I enjoy touring as much as I do. I'm not going to make a living just making records.

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Ive been making my living with this material for over 15 years.

At this stage, my chief professional goal is simply to keep on writing and making a living at it.

The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.

I don't make my living making records. Maybe someday I will.

Nothing tops making a living off your passion.

Do not get so concerned with making a living that you forget to make a life.

It would be great to be able to make a living by making films.

I want to travel. Maybe I'll end up living in Norway, making cakes.

I do feel incredibly lucky to be making a living at things I love doing.

I'm living life as best I can - but I'm not exempt from failure and making bad choices.

When I was 19 or 20 years old, I wasn't making a living wrestling. I needed a full-time income.

I'm fortunate that I'm making a living at it now because I'm not equipped to do anything else.

To be fair, I don't think it's a plague to say I have the misfortune of making movies for a living.

Through most of my career, I've made a decent living making movies no one wants to see.

My decision not to eat animals anymore was paramount to my growth as a spiritual person. It made me aware of greed and made me more sensitive to cruelty. It made me feel like I was contributing to making the world better and that I was connected to everything around me. I felt like I was part of the whole by respecting every living thing rather than using it and destroying it by living unconsciously. Healing comes from love. And loving every living thing in turn helps you love yourself.

I'm just like, a girl making videos, living her life.

For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary.

Making a living in the arts, though, creates so many jobs for other people.

I think when you run by someone and there's a thumbs up or encouragement, that's something that I really love. It's a brotherhood, a support and an appreciation for the effort we're all making. I think it's also about living well, living healthy, taking care of ourselves, getting in touch with ourselves, our bodies, our minds. It's a mind-body connection that running helps enhance.

If I stop making films, I will die. I can tell myself that one day I will stop living. But I cannot bear the fact that the day will come when I will no longer be making films.

I have to go into the studio to make my second album knowing I'm making an album. When I first started making songs I didn't have an album in mind, that's why a lot of them I like - I'm talking about how I haven't got a deal, how I'm living, you can never really top the first time, but we'll see how it goes.

Just because you are living the dream making millions of dollars doesn't mean you don't go through problems.

I see myself working, making a living and doing projects that I'm passionate about, regardless of the medium.

To be making something as yet unformed, unknown - to be living in a deferred moment - is the most seductive way to exist.

We are living in a world where image-making is important, so we ignore the facts.

A man can be so busy making a living that he forgets to make a life.

I work hard making music - that's how I earn a living.

The Making of Friends Life is sweet because of the friends we have made And the things which in common we share; We want to live on, not because of ourselves, But because of the ones who would care. It's living and doing for somebody else On that all of life's splendor depends, And the joy of it all, when we count it all up, Is found in the making of friends.

Through most of my career I've made a decent living making movies no one wants to see.

There are living systems; there is no living "matter." No substance, no single molecule, extracted and isolated from a living being possess, of its own, the aforementioned paradoxical properties. They are present in living systems only; that is to say, nowhere below the level of the cell.

Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.

It's hard to make a living in any of the arts. When most people think of artists, they think of the stars and the celebrities. But that's such a tiny minority of the elites who are able to make those millions of dollars. The reality is that it's very hard for the rest to make a living as an artist. So, you really have to persevere and understand that achieving the sort of success where you're making the big money is like winning the lottery.

I mean, I love L.A. - I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to hit a home run every single time. It's a unique thing to Hollywood that if you don't do that every time, then you're considered a failure. But it's like, 'Well, are you making movies to be successful? Or are you making movies to learn something?'

Move to Italy. I mean it: they know about living in debt; they don't care. I stayed out there for five months while I was making a film called 'Order Of Death,' and they've really got it sussed. Nice cars. Sharp suits. Great food. Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. That's living!

It was a natural thing for me to go become a musician, and then to start writing music. I don't even really remember making a decision to go into music, it was just there for me, always. If I weren't making a living at it, I'd still be writing music.

Before that I had largely thought of selling as just a way of making a living for myself. I had dreaded to go in to see people, for fear I was making a nuisance of myself. But now I was inspired! I resolved right then to dedicate the rest of my selling career to this principle: finding out what people want, and helping them get it.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

I became really aware that when you're making a movie, you're making it three times. You're making it when you're writing it. You're making it when you're shooting it. And then you're remaking it again when you're editing it.

Don't be so busy making a living that you forget how to live. Work hard to be successful, but enjoy the journey.

Wrestling was my way of making a living. I did the very best I could.

I am through generalizing about ideas apart from men who generate them. I am through writing books about the dead, or writing books about the living to the unborn (tucked away as Literature) or writing books about the unborn to the living (whiffed away as prophecy). I put up my life on advertising the living to the living, on making men of genius known to the people and interpreted to their time, that the time in which I live, may live face to face with its men of vision and that they may live face to face with one another.