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I am just a normal professional with a great job and a great life. -- Martin Yan
Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life. -- John Updike
I've had four children and I've done a good job and I'm happy in life. -- Sadie Frost
My job is to focus on bringing characters to life in an honest and personal way. -- Danny Pudi
It's unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job. -- Bear Grylls
My dad worked two jobs his whole life, and so I told him he's the reason I have 20 jobs. -- Magic Johnson
To do what you wanna do, to leave a mark - in a way that you think is important and lasting - that's a life well-lived. -- Laurene Powell Jobs
You want to enjoy life, don't you? If you get your job done quickly and your job is fun, that's good isn't it? That's the purpose of life, partly. Your life is better. -- Yukihiro Matsumoto
We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life. -- Steve Jobs
I was lucky - I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. -- Steve Jobs
I'll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I'll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I'm not there, but I'll always come back. -- Steve Jobs
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. -- Steve Jobs
These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that. -- Steve Jobs
I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed. -- Steve Jobs
You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. -- Steve Jobs
For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. -- Steve Jobs
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. -- Steve Jobs
Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence. -- Steve Jobs
I lived in Greece for about four years of my life, and living there had a huge impact on my life growing up. My father was very much adamant that we would learn about our culture. It's a very rich culture to be a part of since it has such a great history behind it. I definitely carry that in my job, and I am very passionate. -- Marina and the Diamonds
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. -- Steve Jobs
Being an artist is a job for life. -- Brian Eno
"Life Diamond". . . Job. Family. Society. Sense of Self... -- Wayne Dyer
Tennis is my job, but it's not my life. -- Serena Williams
Life is so simple when you're just doing your job. -- Jeanette Winterson
Our job is to bring the dead facts to life. -- William Bernbach
Being a parent is the hardest job ever in life. -- Nicole Ari Parker
The most important job in life is being a mom. -- Audrey Hepburn
Do not waste your time and life, searching for a job. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
My first job in television was on 'My So-Called Life.' -- Jason Katims
Life's not about feeling better, it's about getting the job done. -- Ned Vizzini
My whole life is about forgetting. It's my most valuable job skill. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Our job is improving the quality of life, not just delaying death. -- Robin Williams
Look, the job of life is to turn your negatives into positives -- Michka Assayas
Without a job all there is to life is boredom and insecurity. -- John Lennon
The good life doesn't knock on the door. Joy is a job. -- Lionel Shriver
Do your job and do it right, life's a ball, TV tonight. -- Frank Zappa
I'm going to have a project-based life rather than a job-based life. -- David Plotz
I just don't think any job is worth sacrificing your private life for. -- Harry Lloyd
If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life. -- Tommy Lasorda
The man who loves his job never works a day in his life. -- Confucius
I infuse my life with love. I love what I do, the job. -- Jonathan Tucker
'Marley' does what is probably the best possible job of documenting an important life. -- Roger Ebert
Marley' does what is probably the best possible job of documenting an important life. -- Roger Ebert
Throwing yourself into a job you enjoy is one of the life's greatest pleasures! -- Richard Branson
Our job in life is to make a positive difference, not prove we're right. -- Peter Drucker
I wouldn't take a directing job if I didn't think it was enriching life. -- Baz Luhrmann
It's a really fulfilling life if you can make your job what you love doing. -- Sam Palladio
I think what's important is to first have your life and then do your job. -- Erin Davie
Being a poet is not a job or a profession but a way of life. -- Kathleen Raine
It's one of the most important things in life to provide someone with a job. -- Ayelet Shaked
The only job you have in life is to recognize and honor your personal legend -- Paulo Coelho
The ascent is the aim of your life and to perfect it is your job. -- Nirmala Srivastava
If life can emerge just from naturalistic circumstances, then God is out of a job. -- Lee Strobel
I don't work, I live... I don't have a job, I just have a life. -- Conor McGregor
Ironic that in order to do my life's work, I had to quit my day job. -- Michael J. Fox
I couldn't get an acting job to save my life when I moved to L.A. -- Nia Vardalos
Even though it's my job to be an actor, I have given my life to God. -- Angus T. Jones
I don't have a great deal of stress job-wise in my life, and that feels good. -- Joe Torre
I think the writer's job is to paint the gray because no life is clearly defined. -- Andre Dubus
You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life. -- Stephen Covey
All my life, since I was 16, I've been wondering where that next job was gonna come from. -- Jerry Orbach
People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job. -- Dane Cook
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My job is to bring to life the character, not to put the words on the paper. -- Michael K. Williams
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. -- Confucius
Your miracles are an inside job. Go there to create the magic that you seek in your life. -- Wayne Dyer
I think that's what keeps you grounded - having your own life that's not directed by your job. -- Phil Daniels
I'm a creature who bores, easily. I could never do one job, for the rest of my life. -- Robert Kazinsky
Well, I've lost my wife. I've lost my job. I've lost 20 MINUTES OF MY LIFE! Damn the decaf. -- Dave Foley
Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons. -- Byron Katie
To succeed in life in today's world, you must have the will and tenacity to finish the job. -- Chin-Ning Chu
The more a woman likes her job, the better her self-image and the more she enjoys her life. -- Grace Baruch
I often think how unadventurous my life must seem from the outside, though I do like my job. -- Mary Hoffman
If heaven really exists: then heaven is the job, hell is unemployment, while life is merely an interview. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life. -- Thom Mayne
...his job was the very least important part of his life, never to be mentioned except in irony. -- Richard Yates
To the engineer falls the job of clothing the bare bones of science with life, comfort, and hope. -- Herbert Hoover
Hoping gets you nothing in life. If you want more in life it's your job to earn it. -- Robert Kiyosaki
It's the job that I take most seriously in my life and I think it's the hardest job. -- Debra Messing
Life is half delicious yogurt, half crap, and your job is to keep the plastic spoon in the yogurt. -- Scott Adams
The greatest joys of life are happy memories. Your job is to create as many of them as possible. -- Brian Tracy
Do not waste your life, in search for a job.Use your special gifts to create work for yourself. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
It's my job to turn my mess [life] into a message and never regret a day of my life. -- Karrine Steffans
My wife and I are involved in writing/publishing/promotion twenty-four/seven. It isn't a day job; it's life. -- Kevin J. Anderson
I live by the motto of "chase your dream, make your dream your job, make your job your life." -- Bill Walton
A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to. -- Alain de Botton
One of my hardest parts of my job is to console the family members who have lost their life. -- George W. Bush
Most of my life I have done what I wanted to do. I have had fun on the job. -- Walt Disney
Life was a wheel, its only job was to turn, and it always came back to where it started. -- Stephen King
I try to stay in shape just to handle things like the stress of a job or everyday life. -- Erin Andrews
Learning to earn a living is only half the job. The other half is to make life worthwhile and meaningful. -- Sai Baba
Do not waste your time and life, searching for a job. Utilize your special skills to begin your own work. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The hardest job an actor can do is all this pretend, all this screaming and being scared for your life. -- Kirsten Dunst
We were created for meaningful work, and one of life's greatest pleasures is the satisfaction of a job well done. -- John C. Maxwell
Everyone fails. Everyone is constantly failing. It is all part of life, and especially this job of being an actor. -- Diego Klattenhoff
Imagine choosing a job not on money or even on career advancement, but as part of a life worth living. -- Dale Dauten
I am privileged to do a job I love to do. I would never change any moment from my life. -- Enya
It's a strenuous job every day of your life to live up to the way you look on the screen. -- Jean Arthur
No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job. -- Antonio Tabucchi
Not everyone, the Collector was aware, is improved by the job he does in life; some people are visibly disimproved. -- J.G. Farrell
I have mainly been interested in acting. I think it's a great job, a fine way to live your life. -- Jack Nicholson
To me designing has never been a job or profession. It's a way of life, like a priest or rabbi. -- Ed Benguiat
I've been out of work so many times in my life that relying too much on just one job is terrifying. -- Chris Hardwick
To me, having kids is the ultimate job in life. I want to be most successful at being a good father. -- Nick Lachey
Uncharted' is the best job I've ever had. Film, television, whatever - it's without doubt the best. It's changed my life. -- Nolan North
I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out. -- Reese Witherspoon
Real estate is my life. It is my day job, if you will. But it consumes my nights and weekends, too. -- Ivanka Trump
Working at a job that you hate. Having a career and a life that you have no passion for. That's hell. -- Ron Perlman
There are two things in life that money cannot buy: health and happiness. Aside from that, it does an excellent job. -- Perry Brass
Not every actor gives their life to do this job. Some just do it as a job. Well, it's my life. -- Jeremy Renner
People can make a real difference. One person at a time, one job at a time, one life at a time. -- James Packer
If you accept that your only job is to be the keeper of your life force, you will make powerful choices. -- Debbie Ford
My job as an actor is for you, so why should my private life be for you, too? That's not fair. -- Martin Freeman
It is so important to remember that, while I love my job, there are other fantastic avenues to explore in my life. -- Rose McIver
Part of an actor's job is to find correlations between your own life and the life of the person you are playing. -- Daniel Radcliffe
Your team has entrusted a portion of their life to you, and it's your job to help them grow, personally and professionally. -- David Cottrell
A lot of it, as it is in any job in life, is being in the right place at the right time. -- Julie Harris
An actor's job is to embrace emotions and situations that in real life we spend all of our time running away from. -- Wentworth Miller
Everybody does not have to like you. That is not their job. Liking you is not anyone's purpose in life except yours. -- Iyanla Vanzant
Writing is not a profession, occupation or job; it is not a way of life: it is a comprehensive response to life. -- Gregory Mcdonald

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