I’ve enjoyed all the parts of my career.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

You don’t even really need a place. But you feel like you’re doing something. That is what coffee is. And that is one of the geniuses of the new coffee culture.

I did go to Wellesley, a women’s college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

Work is making a living out of being bored.

One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easily be ignored. Just bread and water and delightful toil is all I need – not unreasonably much, yet one ought to be trained and tempered to enjoy life in these brave wilds in full independence of any particular kind of nourishment.

I’m interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it’s quite a satisfying thing to do, isn’t it?

Fun is one of the most important – and underrated – ingredients in any successful venture. If you’re not having fun, then it’s probably time to call it quits and try something else.

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

ESPN is a great organization to work for.

A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.

I was always interested – I mean, it’s kind of part of your job – I was always interested in the camera.

I’m very type-A, and many things in my life are about control and domination, but eating should be a submissive experience, where you let down your guard and enjoy the ride.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.

I can’t deny that label-support gave me a leg up – though not every successful artist needs it.

Don’t let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn’t go with it.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

In my own life I know that my state of cheerfulness is a reliable gauge of my level of spiritual enlightenment at that moment. The more cheerful, happy, contented, and satisfied I am feeling, the more aware I am of my deep connection to Spirit.

That’s something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.

You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

I’ve been a mogul and executive since the beginning of my career. People are just born with that skill.

I think I don’t take myself too seriously. You know as far as, it’s a fun life. I take my music serious, but I like to have fun.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

When you give up yourself, that’s when you will feel the true spirit of Christmas. And that’s giving that’s serving others and that’s when you feel fulfilled.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don’t just want to possess it, it will find you.

To be in any way a positive contribution, that’s all anybody wants to be. It’s all I’ve ever wanted to be. I wanted to be an artist, be a mother. You want to feel that in your life you’ve been of use, in whatever way that comes out.

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven’t belonged to any company or any system. It isn’t easy to live like this in Japan.

He who is contented is rich.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don’t work. When you clean your house, you don’t get tired; it gives you satisfaction.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

Life must be lived as play.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

Egos are never nice. I have been a victim of it a lot of times in my career. Whenever I have used it, I have failed.

I do things I love doing. Sometimes that is maybe going out to have a drink with friends, going out partying or whatever.

In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.

I’m a workin‘ girl.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

I like to have fun all the time, even if I’m working.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

You never get over losses. I’ve never gotten over one loss I’ve had in my career. They always stick with me.

Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

I did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career – anything for a laugh.

For my career, I wouldn’t go racing if I didn’t enjoy it. I still need to have my say, and not just get put with a team and get told to deal with it.

I feel that I’ve done what I wanted to do, and that makes me feel fairly content.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression.

I started in action, and then I went to comedy school.

I never wanted to stay in one genre; I never wanted to be pigeon-holed or defined as the actor who only worked in one genre. I want to be able to work in all different genres. For me it’s fun, and that’s how I grow as an actor.