Quotes About Fulfillment

I used to believe that if I could do certain things - write a book or be a successful musician - that I'd be transformed into a happy person, but it doesn't work that way.

I will promise you that if I can give you two good scenes -- which is what I always try to do in every movie -- then I feel like I'm doing my job.

The work of a garden bears visible fruits-in a world where most of our labours seem suspiciously meaningless.

I was lucky to go to work every day for 50 years, to a job that I loved.

When I left Maine, I always wanted to be a working actor. I never cared too much about being the star. I just wanted to do the work and get on with it.

I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work.

We never had any children," he said ruefully. "Our work was our children.

Committing great work does not necessarily feed you.

I couldn't be happier to not be acting. I miss it, but I don't miss the auditioning or trying to get work.

I'm not a painter who's saying, "I want people to see my work when I die; it will be this and that." That's not satisfying to me.

Everyone should find something they love doing. Then work isn't work. It's a part of themselves. Of who they are.

All is well with me. The rain doesn't reach me, my room is well heated, what more can one ask for? There's no shortage of work, either.

There's a layer of satisfaction that I get from cooking that is more than the work itself. I think when you're too competitive sometimes you can lose the joy of what you do.

Success for an artist is completed work. Very successful artists complete a lot of work. It's that simple.

The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, 'Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love.

I used to work at The International House of Pancakes. It was a dream, and I made it happen.

Anything that makes us forget who we are and what we want; that way we can work in order to produce, reproduce, and earn money.

There's so much more I want to do. I refuse to get to 50 and wait at home for the phone to ring. In Spain, actresses work until they are old. That's my plan.

The most important part of life is work, it's the flow, it's getting stuff done, feeling like you're doing something.

I'm lucky to have the kind of life where the differentiation between work and play is absolutely zilch. I have no idea whether I'm working or whether I'm playing.

Work is an extension of personality. It is achievement. It is one of the ways in which a person defines himself, measures his worth, and his humanity.

The first step toward making the worker achieving is to make work productive.

When you love what you do, you can work all the time.

I like to work as an actor. Not just for money, but because I really enjoy acting.