Life Work Quotes

Nothing is going to happen unless you work with your life's blood.

Each good thought that you have encouraged and nourished is your life's true work of art.

No matter how you are feeling, get up every morning and prepare to let your light shine forth.

I don't want to do anything. I don't even want to start this day because then I'll just be expected to finish it.

One cannot use the life to interpret the work. But One can use the work to interpret the life.

The fact is, I diet every day of my life. I have to work at it. But I diet so I can pig out.

I've three children, three grandchildren, I work, I travel, and I'm very happily married. I'm very satisfied and happy with my life and there really isn't anything I want.

I don't want to let my life as a woman pass me by. There's a time to work, there's a time to be young and crazy, and there should be a time to enjoy motherhood. I'm actually looking forward to that.

I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.

That's a hard question, because I started skating when I was three, so I don't really remember life before it, and I don't know what it is like not to work hard at something.

My life isn't focused on results. My life is really focused on the process of doing all the things I'm doing, from work to relationships to friendships to charitable work.

Life doesn't reward the naturally clever or strong but those who can learn to fight and work hard and never quit.

No matter what it is in life that you want kid, just want it worse than anybody else [and] work harder than anybody else to get there.

You're living life in real time, man, and we' ve got a good amount of work to do for each other. Hiding is not an option and you're going to step out and you're going to make mistakes.

Daily life is both the subject and environment of the work I am making.

My whole life is my work.

If I can't be daring in my work or the way I live my life, then I don't really see the point of being on this planet.

I like my work, but my life always comes first. I always wanted to have a beautiful life, and the way to do it is in show business.

Put in an honest day's work. It is the building block of a spiritual life.

I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take a good hard look at workaholism and it's effect on one's mental health.

I guess the biggest world difference you can make is in people's relations to their own emotions, 'cause emotions rule so much of our daily life, and I think that's where we work.

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other. It is a joy to be an artist, but it doesn't mean very much unless that work is somehow useful in some way and contributes to others.

I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the game to excess.

My work is mostly influenced by the concrete circumstances of our daily lives.

Part of me says that no life will work if I can't make this one right.

The more you work, study and develop your ability to contribute more to the lives and well-being of others, the better life you will have in all areas.

I'm interested in making works for museums in a way that make the space feel domestic, and I'm always thinking about how this work will be part of someone's daily life.

I didn't devote my life to acting. I give a lot to my work, but my life has always been more important.

If you have to work at McDonald's, good for you. But on a side note, good luck with the rest of your life.

You take the work seriously, you don't take yourself seriously. You keep that straight and you'll do well the rest of your life.

Life and work are the most wonderful things a man can have.

I'm a person who is only invested in the pleasures and enjoyments of life. All the rest is left to the men. I've always remained what you might call "feminine" about the whole [work] thing.

Do your job and do it right, life's a ball, TV tonight.

A lot of the other things in my life like making music, you know that's a very collaborative thing so I work on comics because it's not something that's a solo activity.

Because my life has been so notorious and so bad, it can overshadow my work.

My life has been happy because I have had wonderful friends and plenty of interesting work to do.

Is not every life, every work fine?

You work for God Incorporated.

Poems' deep work is a matter of language, but also a matter of life. One part of that work is to draw into our awareness and into language itself the unobvious and the unexpected.

Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive.

I have learned that keeping my personal life outside of work is the easier, richer way to work.

Buddhist practice is the grounding for this work, this life, this way.

A life of complete leisure is the hardest work of all.

I don't think I have ever worked in my life, because work to me means that you are really doing something that you don't like.

I enjoy the work, I enjoy every minute of my professional life.

Whatever is going on in your life when you're writing has to somehow seep into your work.

In every moment of every day of my life, I get to wake up and work with amazing people and nurture them in the way that I might have nurtured my son or my grandchildren that he might have had.

I'm turning 22, so I want to start getting into work that reflects where I'm at in life now.

If your life works, and you work in it, then it’s okay, whatever is happening is okay.

A lot of my work comes from a place of despair or fear. I often write in order to gain some sort of control over aspects of my life or the world that seem too dark to look at directly.