Quotes About Livelihood

I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.'

Tell me who you are. You need not tell me your name. Names have power, even human ones. Tell me where you live and what you do with your living.

My only problem was making a living. How to make a living without giving up the freedom was not an easy trick.

It is more important to find out what you are giving to society than to ask what is the right means of livelihood.

The proper task of social reform is to remove poverty from society and to ensure that people do not sell their conscience to make a living.

It's probably hard to feel any sort of Romantic spiritual connection to nature when you have to make your living from it.

The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.

Ah, if only one had work of one's own, proper work, decent work—not forced upon one by the griping of one's belly!

It would be good if there could be an end to need in this world; it would be good if people did not have to worry about what would happen to them if their crops failed, or if their cattle got sick and died, or if they lost the jobs on which they, along with a number of hungry mouths, depended.

How can you persuade a man whose livelihood depends upon him remaining unpersuaded?

If the eight worldly concerns are harbored within yet you outwardly appear as a spiritual practitioner, any material benefit you might gain as a result of such deceit amounts to wrong livelihood.

Skating was put on the map, supposedly from me Everybody made a life and a livelihood, um, except me.

It's one of the most important things in life to provide someone with a job.

My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.

O pobre sozinho, sem um cavalo, fica no seu, permanece, feito numa crôa ou ilha, em sua beira de vereda. Homem a pé, esses Gerais comem.

We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up on the side of non-violence. That became my foundation with politics and my livelihood.

Goldman Sachs doesn't care if you raise chickens.

I think it's a terrible thing to write and not enjoy it. It's a sad thing. But of course a lot of people do work because they need to eat. And we all need to eat, but that's not the only reason to work. You couldn't have paid me not to write.

I just want to be a professional. I couldn't live without acting.

I am so blessed that all I've done in my professional life, since I was 17-18, is play music and somehow make a dollar here and there.

I have been giving live performances since childhood, and I continue to do so professionally.

Being one of the lucky ones I shouldn't be complaining, but for the chess world in general it would be good to find a structure in which chess professionals of lower levels would make a good living as well.

I started paddy cultivation not for profit.