Earning A Living Quotes

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

  Dolly Parton

  Inspirational, Life, Balance

  Twitter post from Aug 09, 2010

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• Life is about more than earning a living, and if you're not in the habit of thinking about it, you can end up middle-aged or even older and shocked to realize that your life seems empty.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Thinking, Earning, Realizing

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life.

  Brad Henry

  Mean, Earning It, Earning

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• It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Break Through, Today, Facts

  "The New York Magazine Environmental Teach-In" by Elizabeth Barlow in New York Magazine, p. 30, March 30, 1970.

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• The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  School, Thinking, People

  "The New York Magazine Environmental Teach-In" by Elizabeth Barlow in New York Magazine, p. 30, March 30, 1970.

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

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.57, Princeton University Press

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• We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Notion, Drudgery

  "The New York Magazine Environmental Teach-In" by Elizabeth Barlow in New York Magazine, p. 30, March 30, 1970.

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• There are so many ways of earning a living and most of them are failures.

  Gertrude Stein

  Work, Way, Earning

  Gertrude Stein (2004). “Look at Me Now and Here I Am: Writings and Lectures, 1911-1945”, Peter Owen Publishers

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• Journalists justify their treachery in various ways according to their temperaments. The more pompous talk about freedom of speech and ‘the public’s right to know’; the least talented talk about Art; the seemliest murmur about earning a living.

  Janet Malcolm

  Art, Freedom Of Speech, Earning

  Janet Malcolm (2011). “The Journalist And The Murderer”, p.14, Granta Books

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• It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Life, Business, Philosophical

  "Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau". Book by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1782.

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• I have no ambitions beyond being comfortable in what I do for a living - and earning a living.

  Craig Ferguson

  Ambition, Earning, Comfortable

  "Craig Ferguson, late night's cheeky monkey" by Robert Lloyd, articles.latimes.com. February 14, 2010.

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• in the past, having a life while earning a living didn't seem like too much to ask. Today, even this basic goal has been redefined as 'having it all.

  Sally Helgesen

  Past, Goal, Today

  Sally Helgesen (2001). “Thriving In 24/7: Six Strategies for Taming the New World of Work”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• Those who devote their lives to earning a living are incapable of living a human existence.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Earning, Existence, Humans

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.134, Routledge

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• I realized that most people waste their lives earning a living, and I wanted to live. I love painting, so I keep painting. That's how I became an artist.

  Pierre Soulages

  Artist, People, Waste

  Interview with Zoe Stillpass, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 7, 2014.

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• I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Earning, Poet

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• Music is for people to hear, I can't think of anything else it could be for. Unless you believe in God, and I don't think God really would be all that interested. I'm sure when Bach wrote for the greater glory of God, he really didn't think that God was going to sit down at breakfast and listen to his cantatas. I think he meant for higher purposes than earning a living.

  Richard Meale

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• I ignore all the doomsaying nonsense. I'm in a business where the odds of ever earning a living are a zillion to one, so I know itcan be done. I know the impossible can become possible.

  Marcia Wallace

  Odds, Optimism, Done

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• Skilled work, of no matter what kind, is only done well by those who take a certain pleasure in it, quite apart from its utility, either to themselves in earning a living, or to the world through its outcome.

  Bertrand Russell

  Work, Done, World

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• I have seen that women are shut out from every means of earning a living that is really remunerative, crowded into certain narrow walks, which, in consequence, are so thronged that the poor creatures are forced to work for the merest pittance.

  Lillie Devereux Blake

  Mean, Earning, Poor

  Lillie Devereux Blake (1874). “Fettered for Life, Or, Lord and Master: A Story of To-day”, p.53

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• Little did I know that earning a living at stand-up is the hardest thing you can do. But once I started doing it, I just loved it, and I realized that I was actually kinda good at it, and then that was it.

  Greg Giraldo

  Littles, Earning, Hardest

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The rubber industry is of much significance to our countries. For millions of our smallholders, the rubber tree is a tree of life, serving as a crucial source of income for earning a living and raising families.

  Thaksin Shinawatra

  Country, Tree, Income

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• Right now-whether you're in writing courses getting "paid" in credit for writing, or burdened and distracted by earning a living and changing diapers-figure out how to make writing an integral part of your life. Publication is good, and gives you the courage to go on, but publication is not as important as the act of writing.

  Janet Burroway

  Writing, Giving, Important

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• 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.

  Arnold Friberg

  Money, Artist, Thinking

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• That our popular art forms have become so obsessed with sex has turned the U.S.A into a nation of hobbledehoys; as if grown people don't have more vital concerns, such as taxes, inflation, dirty politics, earning a living, getting an education, or keeping out of jail.

  Anita Loos

  Art, Sex, Dirty

  Anita Loos, Ray Pierre Corsini (1985). “Fate keeps on happening: adventures of Lorelei Lee and other writings”

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• If I wasn't a model I would have liked to be a gardener. It is still a puzzle to me that I ever became a model. I am an extremely private person and I do not have the temperament for fame. I think I was rather ashamed of this trivial way of earning a living.

  Jean Shrimpton

  Thinking, Way, Earning

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