Earning A Living Quotes

Earning A Living Quote of the day

Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.

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.

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

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.

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

The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?'

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I don't live to work. I work to live. Before I die I know I lived.

I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this., New York Times, April 19, 1992]

Don’t find work, find an interest and do it with love. If you can earn a living doing something interesting, then you will never have to work.

I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing