Quotes About Livelihood

I've always had a day job and never been just acting.

I always had to have a day job, working on other people's ranches or construction or whatever. I was making a little bit of money rodeoing, but between the both of them it wasn't much of a living.

My candle-making business gives me decent money.

You can't apply the term 'lucrative' to dancing, but it does earn me a decent living.

I wanted to play in a band, and I wanted to do music for a living, and that's what I dedicated my life to.

I've worked at a deli, I've worked construction, I've worked a few different jobs.

As an artist, we depend on our face as a source of living.

I don't depend on 'The Kapil Sharma' Show for my living.

My livelihood depends on the art of animators.

Salespeople are in the decision business. Their livelihood depends on the decisions of others.

Iraq is just like New York. It's just like Detroit. It's where people live and raise their families.

I got by as a musician since day one. I don't live beyond my means. I have real cheap tastes.

I mean, first, almost all writers these days teach because they don't make enough money publishing to live on, to support themselves - people like Tobias Wolff, Anne Beattie, Amy Hempel, Stuart Dybek; a lot of short story writers, for one thing.

My Vegas act is how I make my money.

the worker works to live. What he earns goes into keeping his family alive, and so he passes the

Nearly one out of every five is in a part-time job. Two-thirds are living paycheck to paycheck. Along with pay, employment benefits have been shriveling. The gap in life expectancy between the nation's most affluent and everyone else is widening as well.

Why has East Asia provided textbook examples of collectivism?21 The key is how culture is shaped by the way people traditionally made a living, which in turn is shaped by ecology. And in East Asia it's all about rice. Rice, which was domesticated there roughly ten thousand years ago, requires massive amounts of communal work. Not just backbreaking planting and harvesting, which are done in rotation because the entire village is needed to harvest each family's rice.

Show business imposes its own strict temporality: no matter how many CDs or DVDs we own, it would still have been better to have been there, to have seen the living performers in the richness of their being and to have participated, however briefly, in the glory of their performance.

So they went to sea because it was their livelihood, and in all likelihood their fathers' before them;

Science, and its impact on a person's livelihood is the common denominator.

the wise.5 This view had been the fundamental feature of his image of the world and the basis of his conduct in life. It justified the structure of his economic existence. He could permit his livelihood to be assured by his brother's strenuous and dangerous work, so that Maimonides could devote himself to realizing his plans in peace and quiet. This view also had a place in his self-confidence and probably aroused a certain awareness of the relationship of providence to his own life.

The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.

A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him. They must even upon most occasions be somewhat more; otherwise it would be impossible for him to bring up a family, and the race of such workmen could not last beyond the first generation.

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