Top 1200 Making A Living Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I just love making a fool out of myself. I made my living as a clown at kids' parties for about three years.

I think living is serious. Living well, accepting yourself, using your talents to the fullest, enjoying yourself, that's all serious and important...But I think makeup and fashion should not be taken that seriously...You should have fun making up for a party. You should have fun wearing a sexy dress. When you're beautiful it should give you pleasure.

Take it from me: I really love making things up, which is why I write fiction for a living.

I am getting to travel all over the world doing what I love and making a living out of it. That is a huge blessing to me.

I am sure I'd have made a better all-around man if I hadn't lost so much time just making a living.

I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.

My daughter recently reminded me not to get so busy making a living, I forget to make a life and I'm going to take that advice.

It is remarkable that there is little or nothing to be remembered written on the subject of getting a living: how to make getting a living not merely honest and honorable, but altogether inviting and glorious; for if getting a living is not so, then living is not.

I have to experiment with methods and I'm trying to find an authentic way of making an equivalent of the living, breathing person within the limits of a single picture.

We've become accustomed to repurposing and living vicariously through other people's work instead of going out and making our own.

Fear, the strength of earth's religions, gripping every living soul, Was a monstrous human error for the making of men whole.

I wanted to join the Army when football failed. That was my only realistic form of making an honest living.

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something.

When I started making music, I was so heavy into the hyphy movement. That's something you only know so much about if you were right there living in it, submerged in the culture.

Husbands and wives, recognize that in marriage you have become one flesh. If you live for your private pleasure at the expense of your spouse, you are living against yourself and destroying your joy. But if you devote yourself with all your heart to the holy joy of your spouse, you will also be living for your joy and making a marriage after the image of Christ and His church.

I have been waiting for the devil living inside of me to stop making love to all the ghosts you left behind.

In some cases, I allow the edge of the set, the edge of my own artificial, artistic imposition, to show up because I don't want to hide from that. I want to acknowledge that there is a living human and a living eye and a living mind and a living heart responding to what's going on out there.

I'm making music for people to have fun and party to. I'm also making real music as well. I'm making a lot of pop stuff. I'm definitely just making music for the consumer and the listeners. So shout out to all my fans.

It's the way I enjoy making art - I like sitting down and making five beats; I enjoy that process. I can go two weeks without making a song and just making beats and I'll be OK.

Marriage is not just about love and living together. It's much more complicated, especially when you are going to be making a family.

Let's be honest: it's not like I'm not making a good living that the whole family benefits from. No one talks about my foul mouth when we're all in Aspen for Christmas.

What we are living with is the result of human choices and it can be changed by making better, wiser choices.

Mindfulness is natural when you do not need to think about minor daily problems like making a living!

I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, were it not for making living, which is rather a nouciance.

If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that?'

Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living.

When I was in New York, I was making a living. We had a summer house and a car that I could put in a garage. That's something for a stage actor.

Performing is a thing in itself, a distinct skill, different from making recordings. And for those who can do it, it's a way to make a living.

It's a huge high to be able to earn a nice living doing the thing I love most - making comedy.

The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.

I knew I could make a living doing my own videos instead of making them for someone else.

Capitalism is always in danger of inspiring men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life. We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to humanity-thus capitalism can lead to a practical materialism that is as pernicious as the materialism taught by communism.

Keep it real by being straight forward. Don't pull no punches on people. It's better to tell somebody than just lollygag around, letting them think they're living their life the right way. Because some people don't know what the hell they're doing, they don't know if they're living the right way or making the right decisions. Some people don't know that.

I think by the time I finished college I was calling myself a professional because I was, you know. I was making a living playing music.

By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may make advances in morality (which is the science, by way of eminence, of living well and being happy), but all mankind together is making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older. So that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man who never ceases to live and learn.

This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related.

We should be involved in the decision-making about our own lives, and not just sitting around being the living dead.

I was making my living from a joke about my appearance that I didn't understand, and in a way still don't, because when I look in a mirror it doesn't seem funny to me.

I have dedicated my time here on earth to find the tools that can help each of us experience an extraordinary quality of life. I do believe that such a life can only be found by living one's true passion. Without passion, an individual gets caught in the trap of making a living instead of designing a life. When we fall into the trap of getting up each day to reenact an "ordinary" existence, we find ourselves at a level that is merely one of survival.

One of the interesting things about making a kids TV show is that you are in living rooms all across the world and you never know who's watching.

I moved to Chicago when I was 28, and I wasn't completely idealistic about going to Second City and making a living from comedy, but I knew it would be great for the resume.

To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist. And there is no decent or charted way of making a living at it. It is something you are, and not something you do.

I'm very much drawn to these stories. This is a huge, great story [in Doctor Strange] about the possibility of living beyond everything, living beyond mortality, living beyond all the immortal confines, living beyond the planet as we know it. It's mind-blowingly no limits, and I think this is going to be something else.

It often feels like I'm not so much living for the present as I am busy making memories for the future.

I thought of singing and acting as a living-making. I was able to take care of myself and a few of my friends.

We're not just making 'Marco Polo,' we're living it. Because we traveled to Venice... Kazakhstan... into the jungles of Malaysia.

Making surf films for a living isn't my business anymore, so it's really more of a way to get creative and have a lot of fun with it.

The truth is that when you're writing a novel you're really living in it; you're living in the house, and you're living in the town.

I'm living in Hollywood, and I'm making movies, but it goes beyond me. If my family is not doing very well, or even OK, you want them to be better.

Every individual was put on this earth to accomplish some purpose bigger than just making a living.

Why isn't it natural for people who have lived and worked at something to want to use the knowledge and capacity in a new way, free from the burden of making a living?

The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living.

Creating music based on art and giving away from your spirit is more important than making a living.

Doing something you enjoy at times of your own choosing and making a living from it: now tell me, is that work?

One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.

It doesn't matter how big the shows are, as long as I'm making a living playing music. That's all that matters to me.

I believe in living in the present and making each day count. I don't pay much attention to the past or the future.

I got a couple of stories published, but the kind of money you were making for publishing a short story, I could see I wasn't going to make a living at it.

Medical education does not exist to provide students with a way of making a living, but to ensure the health of the community.

The way of the Essentialist means living by design, not by default. Instead of making choices reactively, the Essentialist deliberately distinguishes the vital few from the trivial many, eliminates the non-essentials, and then removes obstacles so the essential things have clear, smooth passage. In other words, Essentialism is a disciplined, systematic approach for determining where our highest point of contribution lies, then making execution of those things almost effortless.