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Quotes About Livelihood

I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Let us tackle the big issues with bold ideas that transform Iowa to accomplish our shared mission to grow Iowa, and realize our shared vision of Iowa as the best place to live, work and raise a family.
~ Tom Vilsack
Jazz is what I play for a living.
~ Louis Armstrong
All right for someone earning a hundred thousand a year. For most of us even contract rates are crippling; I should know.
~ John Brunner
I made a fine tramp and a fair drover;
~ John Buchan
The hope of good design lies in those designers who believe in what they do and will only do what they believeContrary to hearsay, it is possible to make a living that way.
~ Alexander Girard
Our moods and insights are transitory. This current is a flow of grace moving us to our right livelihood, companions, destiny.
~ Julia Cameron
Though one's occupation for his or her livelihood involves physical work or menial labor, it is held that the job carries dignity, compared to the jobs that involve more intellect than body.
~ Unknown
I think I was made for live music. It's just great.
~ Fantastic Negrito
There are three things we need to do for a band. We need to make a great record; we need to get the record played; and we need to find an audience for the live shows.
~ Kiefer Sutherland
I didn't have much of a childhood, but that's O.K. I have a livelihood.
~ Laurence Fishburne
I'm a true fan of animation, and it's my livelihood.
~ Genndy Tartakovsky
Before marriage acting was my livelihood, but now it has become my passion.
~ Navya Nair
Golf is my passion and livelihood.
~ Bryson DeChambeau
I have a problem with players who don't take the loss personally. At a professional level you should - it's our job, it's our livelihood, it's who we are at this level. Every loss should be taken that personal.
~ Hope Solo
The idea that you won't have a job is a real fear that people go through, so when people talk about jobs and say, 'I'm gonna create jobs!' or, 'There's gonna be a loss of jobs,' those are just words. But the reality of someone actually losing their job - I mean, it's their entire life for most people in this country.
~ Miriam Shor
I loved playing and I was actually working two jobs.
~ Johnny Rivers
When I got out of college, I had to make a living, and I started writing for magazines, and it felt like the perfect job.
~ Peter Heller
I love playing live; that's the main thing. But I hate being in the studio. It's the most boring thing ever.
~ Lewis Capaldi
I feel like when you're dancing, especially how we're doing it on live television, you need to give that energy to the camera which is mainly with your face.
~ Skai Jackson
It's not easy making a living as a writer, and for many years I worked at a Waterstones in Dublin. It was a good environment for an aspiring writer, with lots of events and authors appearing.
~ John Boyne
It doesn't matter how big the shows are, as long as I'm making a living playing music. That's all that matters to me.
~ Lewis Capaldi
This obsession was dangerous, he knew that. If anybody ever found out his reputation would be ruined, livelihood destroyed all for some hillbilly-kid with a tight ass and a talented mouth. Just a quick taste, a lick, a suck, a f**** and then he'll be cured. The demon will succumb, Richard is sure of it. He just needs to scratch this itch, quench his thirst and then things will fall back into place. He'll stop daydreaming about those eyes, that hair and that boy.
~ Unknown
He continues to teach because it provides him with a livelihood; also because it teaches him humility, brings it home to him who he is in the world. The irony does not escape him: that the one who comes to teach learns the keenest of lessons, while those who come to learn learn nothing.
~ J.M. Coetzee