Rei Kawakubo Quotes

My life doesn't change. I still have to go out and work hard every day and do the best that I can do.

Oh, what a day-to-day business life is.

All I like to do is work every day and have an idea what I want to do.

My family are my priority but I've always had a strong work ethic and I like to be busy.

Like most people my age, my job is the main focus of my life. I don't have some kind of jet-setting fabulous lifestyle where I'm constantly in situations to acquire amazing anecdotes, that's it.

A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.

I go, and I do my work, and I try to do the best I can, and I collect my money, and I go home, and then I go on to the next thing. That's my attitude.

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

I try to stay very busy. I basically work seven days a week. I try to do new things, to meet new people.

I'm an artist, and I need to work, like everybody. We need to be challenged and that we're getting up and doing something with our lives.

For me, call me what you want, as long as I'm working.

Unlike office workers who improve their profession with repeated daily practice, entertainers don't have any work manual or daily workload. But, I personally set my daily workload, trying hard to invest a set amount of time to improve myself, like other professionals.

I'm not a masochist. I'm simply into trying to enjoy what I do, because otherwise there's no point.

I do give myself a break in my personal life but I think in work, if you don't push yourself you get bored and want to do something else.

People who decide they came to earth to work, who make work their personal philosophy, are kept very busy.

Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it - his mind, his body, his heart - what's life worth to him?

And the reason I came to IBM was I think - I always say at a really early age, I learned you've got to be passionate about what you do. No matter what it is, you put too much, your heart and soul in it, you have to be passionate about it. You make too many sacrifices.

I read a quote by James Dean when I was 17; he said, 'I'd rather starve than do a whole bunch of work that I don't care about.' The older I got, the more I understood what he was saying. If I want to do a whole lot of work that I don't care about, then I would probably be working in a law office somewhere.

At the end of the day, I don't need to work, and I think it's good that I have the drive and willpower to get up and do something in the morning even though I don't need to.

I've always been able to decide what was more important at different points in my life, but I never gave up personal things to work, never.

I only want to do better work. That's the focus of my life.

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

To me, I think I'm just going to keep focused and forward on what I'm doing, work-wise, rather than searching for any kind of meaning in it.

I have decided that I won't take up assignments that don't interest me.

I've used my time at 'GH' to learn some discipline.