George Jean Nathan Quotes

The European style of living is seductive: fewer hours worked, more hours at the cafe, less concern over self-betterment. But that style of living does not produce a purposeful life.

People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life.

Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.

I don't want to bust my butt for the rest of my life, like my parents.

I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.

I really feel sorry for people who are, who divide their whole life up into 'things that I like' and 'things that I must do.' You're only here for a short time, mate. Learn to like it.

A lifestyle is what you pay for; a life is what pays you.

Many people worry so much about managing their careers, but rarely spend half that much energy managing their LIVES. I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out.

I'll work as long as I can. I'm happy with my life.

Life shouldn't be something that's draining and long.

I learned from my parents that you have to get pleasure out of what you're doing, or don't do it.

My career is important but it's not the be-all and end-all of my life.

I don't want to make a living. I want to make a life.

You are not living, you are surviving.

Do not get so concerned with making a living that you forget to make a life.

Life's not all about money.

Making a living and having a life are not the same thing. Making a living and making a life that's worthwhile are not the same thing. Living the good life and living a good life are not the same thing. A job title doesn't even come close to answering the question. "What do you do?".

I'd rather work to live than live to work.

Work is the best wonder drug ever devised by God.

Everybody works . . . . That's what life is. Work and a little play and a lot of prayer.

If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too.

A good life is a main argument.

I don’t care how old I live! I just want to be living while I am living!

The road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organized diminution of work.

Don't be so busy trying to make a living that you're too busy to make a life.