Quotes About Livelihood

If you are making money writing, you are doing great. If you can support yourself writing, you are a success. I don't care if you're writing textbooks or Pulitzer Prize-winning articles for weighty publications of world renown: If you're writing and it's paying the bills, consider yourself a successful writer.

To be able to make a living doing what I love is truly a gift, and I'm thankful for that every day.

I'm just thankful for gigs.

I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.

I've never made a dime from a record sale in the history of my record deal. I've been very happy with my sales, and certainly my audience has been very supportive. I make a living going out and playing shows.

From day one, musical theater was my bread and butter.

I've played dinner theaters. I'm a working stiff.

I am a theatre actor, but the last ten years I've taken parts in movies because it keeps me in money.

Tradition-minded Christians who have immersed themselves in the writings of Wendell Berry should understand that agrarianism is no panacea. "You can't make a living as a farmer, but you can make a living as a die-setter," says MacDonald. "Industrialism is the new agrarianism. It's not back to the land, but back to the trades.

For peasants and merchants, war was a nightmare that disrupted the routine of earning a livelihood Laying waste vast tracts of inhabited and cultivated land, merely because it was part of the enemy's territory, was a proud boast attributed to Prithviraja Chauhan on defeating the Chandella ruler.

Finally, the ecological health of the Mississippi River and its economic importance to the many people that make their living or seek their recreation is based on a healthy river system.

I cannot imagine my life without horses. They have been my teachers, my friends, my business partners and my entertainment.

Language was both his livelihood and his addiction and he was often preyed upon by a near irresistible compulsion to eavesdrop on conversations in public places.

They grew fat and happy--the horses, not the children, or Marlena for that matter.

If you trusted that your art was going to support your life, how would you live?

Being onstage is everything thats good about life.

I spent my life - all my life - learning to wrestle. It's the only means of livelihood I've ever had and, uh, the only gimmick that I have in wrestling is wrestling.

I'm always writing or playing because that is my life.

I want to entertain people. That's my whole life. To my last breath.

Everything that's fun in life is dangerous. Horse races, for instance, are very dangerous. But attempt to design a safe horse and the result is a cow ... It is impossible to be alive and safe.

To gain a livelihood at the expense of all that makes life worth the having.

I enjoy what I do and it's a great way to live your life.

... I had always written but I never took it seriously. It was a way of life, not a living.

The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life.