Tennys Sandgren Quotes

I didn't have the equipment for the regular world of being a lawyer. I didn't have the imagination for that. I did have a funny kind of ambition, but I didn't know where to put it.

Best way to measure your passion is simply asking would you do it for free? If money is your motivation, then it's not really your passion.

Sometimes I think it'd be fun to do a completely different job for a while. You've got one life and you do the same job for the whole of it, and you think - was that a good use of a life?

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

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.

Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?

It's the typical mid-life crisis kind of thing, where you just stop and wonder, 'Should I go back to university and get a law degree?' I kind of looked around me and thought, 'What kind of idiot am I that I've just spent the last 10 years writing novels? Financially, I'm pretty much where I was when I was 28.'

I don't know what drives me. I need to work. I wanted to be in the entertainment field, but I didn't know what.

I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. I thought I would be a teacher, but I didn't really think about it in any practical way.

Maybe I need to make a change, or maybe it's living here in New York or using social media or working in media and entertainment, but I feel like I'm constantly trying to maintain this sense of, 'Why do I do what I do?'

I've no idea if I want to do this for the rest of my life, so I want to try and work with the best people I can.

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

I think it's important to be thinking about your personal life and your family not just when you've retired but also during your career.

I didn't want to come to the end of my career and think, 'What next?'

I'm just going to try to do the best work at whatever I'm going to be, and I don't think I'm going to be an actress.

I am just working every day, day to day, with what I believe. It's a very ordinary way of dealing with your life - just dealing with your work.

I certainly did not envisage making a Disney movie. The most I hoped for was to be able to pay my bills. I was not a go-getter. I was very type-B.

My career is more important than girls.

Probably the hardest question I get asked is, 'How do I choose between passion and practicality?' I can't answer that. I had to do both. I was passionate about pursuing a career in financial services. But I was also passionate about feeding my child.

I had been saying to myself for a good many years that I was really a writer and that I was in advertising temporarily.

I want to get the maximum out of my career. Football is my life. And when my career is over, I want to look after my family to help my children. That is all.

I enjoy my work, and I take what appeals to me.

Part of me, even when I was trying to get acting jobs, I was still kind of thinking, 'Oh I should do something else with my life.'

Everyone has different priorities, and for me, my work is very important.

I think the main thing, you only get one career and you need to make the most money that you can, and any player will tell you that, you need to take care of yourself and look after yourself and your family and those around you.