Bob Greene Quotes

I think people tend to fall into their careers sometimes, and maybe that's a lucky path to follow because you actually end up doing your purpose.

I feel like I'm in the right profession.

My Vocation is my Vacation. I love what I do.

You've got to find a sweet spot where you skill meets your passion, meets your job.

I spent my time very nicely in many ways, but not fully satisfactory. Then I became Professor in France, but realized that I was not - for the job that I should spend my life in.

I know a lot of people my age are still trying to figure out what to do, and I consider myself lucky that I can make a living doing something that I truly enjoy.

A lot of people don't enjoy their job, they may even hate it, but I am lucky enough to be able to make a living through my passion.

No one is satisfied with their life's work.

Both back when I was acting and now that I'm writing, I've always wanted the same thing out of my career: to be able to get up in the morning and do what I love doing.

Wanted: a man who is larger than his calling, who considers it a low estimate of his occupation to value it merely as a means of getting a living.

Actors are people who are doing a job they want to do, which isn't the case for many of the people who watch what we do.

The key is to join an industry that you have a passion for. If you love cars, then automotive is where you should end up.

I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.

I look at myself as someone who has been very lucky - my job is also what I enjoy most in the world, and I can make my life doing it.

It's better not to work than to work in something you don't want to be working in.

The thing with me is, if I wake up one morning and I'm not happy working as an actress, I'll stop. It's not something I have to do. It's not a vocation.

I used to think that I wanted to be a hat maker, but I don't think that would have worked out.

[Referring to public service:] Men can make a living with far more satisfaction and many less wounds to the souls at some other calling.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness

When you're coming from a place of living just to work, it's never as good as you want it to be. It's never as authentic.

I feel very lucky to be able to call my hobby my job, yet it doesn't feel like one.

You're going to spend a long time with the stuff you work on; you might as well like it.

I made a promise to myself when I graduated from law school that I would never do anything that I didn't enjoy doing, and almost every day of the year since that June of 1963, I have awakened glad that I was going to work, glad that I was going to court, glad that I was going to grapple with a problem.

People don't think of me as Glenn Kelman; they think of me as the real estate guy. If I wasn't interested in real estate, that would be pretty tragic, wouldn't it?

I encourage others to choose a career they are passionate about and can do for the rest of their lives.