Tika Sumpter Quotes

If you find an occupation you love and spend your entire life working at it, is that enough?

I recommend my students not to be professional unless they really have to be. I tell them, 'If you love music, sell Hoovers or be a plumber. Do something useful with your life.'

I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don't think that way. I still don't have a 'bliss' to follow. For people like me - I suspect that's most people - holding out for a 'dream' or a 'passion' is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. That's hard enough... but it's enough.

Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you'll be a happy person.

There are a lot of bitter people out there who have got jobs that they hate and the key to life for me is doing something you love doing.

Find your passion is in life, and do what you can to integrate that into your work life. That's not to say you won't have occasional frustrations in your job - that just goes with the territory - but at least you'll feel better inside, and that, over time, will mean more to you than you might think.

What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.

The ultimate dream in life is to be able to do what you love and learn something from it.

If you're following your dreams, you're doing something you love and that you believe in yourself for.

Now, I've changed my life to make sure I work only on what I love.

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

I have a lot of friends who get up most mornings and go to jobs they absolutely hate. I don't think that's what life is about and I'm so fortunate that I actually love what I do.

If you want to be happy for life, love what you do.

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

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 don't care if people know who I am or if I make a ton of money, I just love my work so much.

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

Find something in life that you love doing. If you make a lot of money, that's a bonus, and if you don't, you still won't hate going to work.

To me, spending your life doing what you love is a gift. Everyone enjoys different walks of life, so find what you love to do and try to make a living at it.

I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.

I make a living doing what I love doing, and it's what brings me joy.

I do what I love and have people around me that I care about.

I believe that when you do what you love, you find higher levels of satisfaction that can compensate for lower income.

If you think of people, the majority of us, we can't do what we really love. I am really grateful that I can work with my dream.

I am doing what I love to do.