Gyorgy Ligeti Quotes

I'm 47, You learn life is short and it's not worth doing something if you don't enjoy it.

Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like.

Life is too short to work so hard.

I'm not looking at money, percentage points or grosses. This is my life, you know? To me, every day matters.

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.

I don't think life is about a pace, living slow or fast. I think you just live, y'know what I mean?

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.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

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

By the age of 50, I would like to know that I'm not dead - that there's some continuity to my life.

The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

I love sport as long as it's kept as an entertainment - not a meaning of life.

I want to do things I enjoy, and show business comes fifth or sixth down the line.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

I realise how important it is to use the time I have. I respect people who want to do that by watching television. I happen to want to read books. But I know I can't read all the books or watch all the movies in one lifetime.

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.

What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working.

I do think there's a lot more we can do on the life agenda.

My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.

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 don't know what the point of life is, but I'm certain that five gold medals is not it.

You need to think and live your life. You only live once. That's how it is.

I believe you must enjoy every phase of your life.

You don't do everything in life in order to make money.