Good Living Quotes - Page 3

• I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.

  Donald Trump

  Motivation, Business, Entrepreneur

  Donald J. Trump, Tony Schwartz (2009). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.47, Ballantine Books

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• Rush Limbaugh is a lame professional swine, and he makes a good living at it. He is like a hired geek in some traveling backwoods carnival - the freaks who bite the heads off chickens - but Limbaugh is a modernized geek who thinks he can bite the heads off of people.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Thinking, People, Lame

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• Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men in countries which are economically in bad shape. The idea that they might be able to make a good living and get married and have a family, a decent life, seems very remote to a lot of people in a lot of the world.

  Salman Rushdie

  Country, Men, Ideas

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• The difference between intelligence and an education is this: that intelligence will make a good living for you, but education won't do much for you at all.

  Charles Kettering

  Education, Learning, Differences

  "Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering".

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• I am a one-trick pony. But I have worked hard at something I would have liked to do even if I weren't paid a penny for it, and made a good living at it. You can't be luckier than that in this life, no matter who you are or what you do.

  Allen W. Wood

  Ponies, Matter, Pennies

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I make a good living doing what I do.

  Shane Koyczan

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• I sit at my table en grand seigneur , And when I have done, throw a crust to the poor; Not only the pleasure, one's self, of good living, But also the pleasure of now and then giving. So pleasant it is to have money, heigh ho! So pleasant it is to have money.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Self, Giving, Done

  Arthur Hugh Clough, Francis Turner Palgrave (1862). “Poems”, p.46

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• I make a good living selling hardback books through paper publishers and I have many friends in the industry who will suffer as it changes, so on a personal level the transition to digital isn't something I welcome wholeheartedly.

  Barry Eisler

  Book, Suffering, Transition

  "Paper Earthworks and Digital Tides" by Barry Eisler, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2010.

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• ... in a wicked way, it is an incentive to good living to observe the spice of enjoyment there is to a godly soul in a very little sin.

  Margaret Deland

  Godly, Soul, Wicked

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• The essence of good taste is a sense of values, and a sense of values is the pivotal point of good living.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Essence, Taste, Pivotal

  Millicent Fenwick (1948). “Vogue's book of etiquette: a complete guide to traditional forms and modern usage”

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• Breath is life, and the intermingling of breaths is the purpose of good living. This is in essence the great principle on which all productive living must rest, for relationships among all the beings of the universe must be fulfilled; in this way each individual life may also be fulfilled.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Essence, May, Way

  Paula Gunn Allen (2015). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, p.50, Open Road Media

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• The wide open nature of any truly creative artistic endeavor is one of its most important virtues, and one of its harshest realities. Only the most determined, hardest working, capable and creative will make their way to earning a good living by their art.

  Mike Svob

  Art, Reality, Creative

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• My life may be a pretty crazy life at times, but its a very privileged one - being able to earn a good living doing what you love. Not many people have such an opportunity.

  Julianne Moore

  Crazy, Opportunity, Doing What You Love

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• I've been doing magic since I was five years old, and when I was trying to get acting gigs, I found I could make a good living at it. It's great to kind of shake the cobwebs off and get the feeling of a live audience again. I love close-up magic, the card stuff, the coin stuff, the really up-close David Blaine stuff.

  Steve Valentine

  Years, Feelings, Magic

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• I knew I could make a good living working in the mills, ... I decided I didn't want to fuss with the rest of it, so I hitch-hiked back home.

  Chuck Knox

  Home, Want, Mills

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• Back in the 90s, if you did mail order in music, you could make a good living doing it if you could hustle.

  John Darnielle

  Order, Hustle, Mail

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