Quotes About Livelihood

I just I love telling stories and as long as I can make my living doing that in all the different mediums that I have been lucky enough to, that's enough for me.

I love to perform live.

Me and my band, we love playing live, and I think it shows. We have one of the better live shows in the state, and I think it's because we just love playing live.

Playing a concert for 2 hours is pie. I would do that every minute of every day if I could. I love to perform. It's the 22 hours before the next show that kills you.

If I live to be 90, and I'm planning to, I'll always love performing for a live audience.

I love live music and I love to see people's faces when I'm performing.

The fact that I can make a living and support three kids and my wife doing what I love to do... who does that? That's golden. It's a very privileged thing.

I do love to perform. And I'm ever so grateful that this has turned into a job with a future.

There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.

Mejor sería ganarse la vida pero mi vida es mía, solo mía, mi vida no necesito ganármela.

A volte scriveva, ma era un'occupazione che lo stancava un po', e poi non concepiva l'idea di gustarsi la gioia di pensare mettendo per iscritto le fantasticherie della mente, a meno che quella fatica non gli avesse permesso di guadagnarsi da vivere. Era convinto che in genere le idee più felici non tollerano di essere espresse, giacché perdono tutta la loro originaria freschezza e appassiscono non appena vengono affidate alla penna. (L'inferno)

The survival of our wildlife is a matter of grave concern to all of us in Africa. These wild creatures amid the wild places they inhabit are not only important as a source of wonder and inspiration but are an integral part of our natural resources and of our future livelihood and well-being.

Getting out and being able to present a concert is invigorating.

I've earned my living in all sorts of terrible ways - as a janitor, a copy editor, a psychotherapist.

I'd actually been making my living as an organist with bands since I was probably 15 or 16 years old, and then as a senior in high school I put together a jazz quintet called The Bobby Mack Jazz Quintet.

I'd like to do something involving jazz. But books are how I earn my living, and I'd like to stay with the horse I rode in on.

I've probably had more jobs than any other actor living.

I tell jokes for a check; I'm on TV for a check.

Every man has a right to life. That means that he also has a right to make a comfortable living.

Maxime estaba orgulloso de su oficio, pero también sentía cierta vergûenza: "Me disgusta la idea de que toda esta felicidad que les doy a mis animales vaya a parar bajo un cuchillo. Me da la impresión de que los traiciono; pero, por otro lado, no sé hacer nada más y no me queda más remedio que ganarme la vida".

When formerly I was looking about to see what I could do for a living... I thought often and seriously of picking huckleberries; that surely I could do.

You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

One farmer says to me, You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with; and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.

The farmer is endeavoring to solve the problem of a livelihood by a formula more complicated than the problem itself. To get his shoestrings he speculates in herds of cattle.