Dan Miller Quotes

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

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

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

I wanted more control of my life. I wanted work to fit in, not to dominate; to support, not to lead the pattern of my life.

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'm starting to judge success by the time I have for myself, the time I spend with family and friends. My priorities aren't amending; they're shifting.

I was never really a career woman. My life always came first.

Time scares me: having enough time to do all the things that I want to do in life, just even in terms of forgetting about the business I'm in.

You have one life, and it can't be just about work because you lose out on so many amazing years of your life if you just work, work, and work.

Money shouldn't be the driver for where you spend your time.

A man can be so busy making a living that he forgets to make a life.

We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the basis of earnings. We need to explicitly take the quality of our work-related life into account in judging our well-being.

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

My parents have always said, 'You'll be so unhappy if you're no more than your career, that it's important to get out there and do things other than just your career.'

I don't live to work; I work to live.

I'm trying to figure out the trick of working to live as opposed to living to work, but I don't know if I've quite stumbled upon it just yet.

It took the producers a while to realize I wanted a full-bodied life. I wanted to get out before I felt I'd sacrificed so much to get somewhere that I couldn't afford to leave.

Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

I'm not really very ambitious. I'm more interested in enjoying my life and looking after my family than being hugely successful.

Money isn't a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an actor.

A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone.

Life is too short to be doing work that doesn't make you feel happy and fulfilled. I'd rather wait for the right project, as opposed to just taking whatever is handed to me.

I've always made a clear distinction between making a life and making a living.

You should have more time for you during all of your life - not when you're 65 and retired.