Quotes About Livelihood

The purpose of employment is not to make money

Before civilization, artists painted for the living. Today, most paint for a living.

If you become famous and don't have a live show to back it up, they're not going to pay you any money.

The prime minister is 12 years old. She looks after 20 goats in the morning, but she's prime minister in the evening.

Some of us wake up in the morning and just wonder how it is any of us actually sustain a paid job.

One of my daughters is a competitive jumper, we live with horses, we have stables on our property. But I don't ride. I observe, and I worry.

Life is movement. Once you stop moving, you're dead. Choose life.

If something happened where I couldnt write music anymore, it would kill me. Its not just a job. Its not just a hobby. Its why I get up in the morning.

I don't play anything but the blues, but now I could never make no money on nothin' but the blues. That's why I wasn't interested in nothin' else.

I love performing. I love getting out there. It's kind of like why I make music.

Going out and playing music - that's what I do. I don't do much else.

I was so happy and content with in life playing music. Music was always my first job and my day gig was my second job.

What I consider to be peace [is] a sustainable peace in which the majority of people on this planet have access to enough resources to live dignified lives.

I consider poetry my vocation, not my "career." My career is as a university professor; that's what pays the bills.

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J'aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

LIFE = (L)ive (I)N (F)ull (E)ffect!!!!!!!

Good government is known from bad government by this infallible test: that under the former the labouring people are well fed and well clothed, and under the latter, they are badly fed and badly clothed.

He was used to shotgun shacks with cracks you could have thrown a good-sized housecat through and floors through whose cracks a man could watch his chickens scratching for worms, if he was lucky enough to possess any chickens.

It is not enough to raise consciousness. One must lower the spirit into the earth to embody a change in things as basic as food, shelter, and livelihood.

But there are two basic kinds of professional, Harkness saw in a moment of self-congratulatory illumination. There's the professionalism that does something well enough to earn a living from it. And there's the professionalism that creates a commitment so intense that the earning of a living happens by the way. Its dynamic isn't wages but the determination to do something as well as it can be done.

When people ask what I do, I say: "I'm a teacher." or: "I proofread legal documents." or: "I hand out jalapeño humus dip at Trader Joe's." I say, to myself, mostly: "I'm alive, motherfucker. What else do you want?"

whenever there are some people calling for the elimination of the class that lives by collecting interest, there will be others to object that this will destroy the livelihood of widows and pensioners.

The ultimate question of human history, as we'll see, is not our equal access to material resources (land, calories, means of production), much though these things are obviously important, but our equal capacity to contribute to decisions about how to live together.

A major expression of that fear is the need to earn money to live.