Charlie Byrd Quotes

I don't live out my career, I live my life.

For a long time, I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was desperate to find something that fit me and I just decided that if I could organically make a professional living out of the things that interested me, then I would be a happy person.

If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.

There's not anyone in particular I'd like to work with. I just want to continue doing work that I have a passion for.

You don't need to be defined by your job.

I never went to college to make money.

That's the principle I teach - find your passion in life and figure out a way to make money.

Putting lifestyle first is how you find a job - not a calling.

I don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in.

My career is really important to me, but there have to be other great, important things in your life besides work.

In an ideal world, nobody's work would be just about the money. People could pursue excellence in what they do, take pride in achievement, and derive meaning from knowing that their work improved the lives of others.

Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

This is what I do for a living. It's not who I am as a human being.

I'm more interested in my life than I am in my career. I don't want to not work. I do enjoy working, but not to the point where that's the only thing I focus on.

I wasn't meant to be an attorney, but I was meant to go to law school.

I had a very good job in corporate America, but I quickly knew that was not how I was wired.

I don't have a career. I have a life.

I don't want only a career.

I have to work, for my soul.

If you're successful at a young age, no matter the profession, there has to come a time when you reevaluate everything, what it means to you. 'Is this what I want to do for the rest of my life?'

If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.

When you're working and making money, that's all good, but there has to be something that provides a substance, I think.

My parents have always done what they've loved, and they've had many different careers.

The person I am is who I am. My life is my career, my career is my life.

My career choice is my career choice. Just stepping out of that zone, to be able to be a provider. I understand my position as a provider and my role as a dad also... Just being able to be comfortable with it.