Top 1200 Working For A Living Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I was tired of working in an office and I wanted to make a living telling stories. There are not many people who find a way to do this.

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

I don't think I'm that much different from any other working actor that's trying to make a living.

At thirteen, when I arrived in Hong Kong after leaving China, I made a living by working in a restaurant.

Unions continue to be important for raising the standard of living for working Americans, whether or not they happen to be in a union.

Can that make any sense - a Belgian artist living in Mexico and working in Afghanistan?

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.

Everyone that've been here, working, living as Americans - just give them a green card.

Have a working spouse, because you won't earn a living from writing - not at first, if ever. My wife worked for years to support us.

I'm trying to figure out the trick of working to live as opposed to living to work, but I don't know if I've quite stumbled upon it just yet.

I was never really a child actor. I was working sporadically in indie films in Pennsylvania, but I was still living at home.

There's something great about the idea of working the land and living communally. That's healthy. That's good.

That's the problem with working and living in the same space - my studio is downstairs, so I often get distracted by domestic things.

Life in the restaurant business can provide a start in the working world for young people or a stable living for many Americans and their families.

The displacement of scripted series by reality programming continues to be a severe obstacle to a working actor's ability to earn a living.

In September of 2001, I was living in the West Village of Manhattan, working from my home for a tech start-up.

For my lifestyle, I believe in living 10 times below my means. As a result of that, I have the luxury of working only when I'm inspired.

Directing is a nice job. It's the best job for me. If i had to pay money to do it, I would do itIt's problematical. It's disapointing often. It's very challenging. It's frustrating as hell. It's extremely demanding and totally satisfying work. And if I wasn't doing this, I would have to do legitimate work for a living. There are guys out there really working for a living, cleaning streets or coal mining, teaching. Directing is playing. Acting.

All I want to do is hit someone in the mouth. It's a whole lot easier than working for a living. Don't make anything noble out of what I do

Politicians are wonderful people as longa as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.

There are moments in your life where you're like I have arrived. I'm here and I'm living and I'm present. And working with Jean Paul Gaultier was one of them.

I'm not a big fan of working out. Living in Los Angeles makes it much easier for me; I don't ever have an excuse not to be outside.

My wife and I are living large in our beloved Miami and I'm working on the things that are important to me.

A city grows like an organism. It is a structure of living and working together a mix of functions.

I was definitely living fast. I was working, traveling a lot, playing. I didn't stop. It all became unbalanced.

WeWork is working to create a world where people make a life and not just a living.

I eat for a living, so working out is definitely part of my job, the same way that the eating, tasting, and drinking is.

When I started in film, I was living and working in Asia, and when we did films there, it was so fast. It was much like TV.

Working inspires inspiration. Keep working. If you succeed, keep working. If you fail, keep working. If you are interested, keep working. If you are bored, keep working.

You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback.

What it takes just to earn a living - working two or three jobs - is driving a wedge in families that shouldn't be there.

Dad was always working in the living room. There was no distinction between work and life - it was the same thing.

The experience I've had with Strikeforce kickboxing, K1, Strikeforce MMA, working with ESPN, working with Showtime, working with Japanese television, working with fighter camps from all over the world has given me a unique perspective.

The best novelist of my generation is an Italian living in Paris, still working and improving - Italo Calvino.

When I went to theater school, most of the people I graduated with aren't working. I've consistently worked and made a good living.

There was a time when I wasn't working a lot. It ebbs and flows. Mostly I was just living my life and playing 'Fallout 3,' a very fun game.

At 26, I was single, living in Manhattan, and working as a journalist at 'Vanity Fair.' I was Carrie Bradshaw... in sensible shoes.

I wasn't thinking about awards or becoming rich. I just wanted to be able to make my living by working as an actor.

We adapt to technological progress by raising our minimum standards of living and working to stay above this rising threshold.

I'm still working on my speech, but I do a lot of voice-acting work. My agent is the best. I make a good living.

While shooting for 'Kaatru Veliyidai,' I was living my childhood dream of working with my favourite director. It was surreal and thrilling at the same time.

Whenever I get frustrated, I tell myself, you could be working at a 7-Eleven right now, so never take for granted what you do for a living.

You become visibly stressed because you are working hard to pay for a standard of living so robust that it overwhelms your capacity to consume it.

Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others.

Fellow workers and peasants, this is the socialist and democratic revolution of the working people, with the working people, and for the working people. And for this revolution of the working people, by the working people, and for the working people we are prepared to give our lives.

Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.

[On culture] It's living the core values when you hire; when you write an email; when you are working on a project; when you are walking in the hall.

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 went from the glamour of working with Karl Lagerfeld and John Galliano to living on an isolated hilltop, with my husband gone most of the time.

Sometimes we forget that if we do not encourage new work now, we will lose all touch with the work of the past we claim to love. If art is not living in a continuous present, it is living in a museum, only those working now can complete the circuit between the past, present and future energies we call art.

I am an international citizen conceived in Russia, born in England, working in Hollywood, living in Switzerland, and touring the World.

In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff that I'm working on.

If we're going to make our immigration system work, then we have to be prepared to talk honestly and without fear about these important and very sensitive issues. For instance, we have to listen to the concerns that working people, our forgotten working people, have over the record pace of immigration and it's impact on their jobs, wages, housing, schools, tax bills and general living conditions.

By working and living in New York, you are breathing Western civilization, continuously reminded of its benefits and its values.

I didn't know how a working-class girl like me could possibly make a living in the art world

I developed the armed forces, especially in a way that improved living and working conditions. My record is there.

Europeans still believe that working is for living. Americans often have that the other way around.

Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health. And what our society does its best to disguise from us is how ordinary, how commonly attainable, health is. We lose our health -- and create profitable diseases and dependencies -- by failing to see the direct connections between living and eating, eating and working, working and loving.

I'm happy to be alive and to play any sport and, really, I wouldn't mind working for a living and playing at weekends.

I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system - that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.