Alexander Haig Quotes

There are certain pressures and things that change your life to a degree that, in the cost benefit analysis that constantly goes on, sometimes makes you think, 'Maybe I should just leave.'

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night.

If I only wanted money and a comfortable life, I would have stayed in Ukraine.

I'm not here to tell you to take risks and quit your job and travel the world. No, don't do that if it doesn't make you feel comfortable and excited.

Comfort is bought at too high a price.

I think that if you take somebody out of their comfort zone, they're going to dislike people because they're not liking themselves in a situation.

My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?

It doesn't really mean a great deal of difference to a life. You live as you wish to do and if a job is oppressing, you leave it. I've done it on several occasions.

I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.

At first I moved from Sydney to Melbourne, because most of the comedy was shot in Melbourne, and then from Melbourne to Los Angeles - and you have to sacrifice stuff.

Comfort and growth cannot coexist.

The best part of success is that it got me past the basic survival level of existence so that I was comfortable. I didn't have to worry about stuff pertaining to survival. Once that was taken care of, I got the chance sit down and create and work at what I do.

What I sacrificed as I pursued my dreams was my comfort, not the lives of other people who looked to me to stay afloat. That alone freed me to take more risks, which did pay off in dividends. Having a safety net is an asset that most people do not have.

As far as value goes, obviously it's nicer to be in an environment where you feel comfortable. But it's also clear that it's probably not the most realistic thing.

People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.

When I chose to leave a career as a young lawyer in Washington to move to Arkansas to marry Bill and start a family, my friends asked, 'Are you out of your mind?'

I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a lot of people out of my life so I could just focus on my fighting dreams.

As long as everyone around me is comfortable and we have a roof over our heads and we're eating, then it's fine and I can go off and do whatever I want.

My dad gave up his job; he stopped working - for me. Without that, I definitely wouldn't be as successful.

That's one of the biggest things. Never being home, always traveling, having different interests and focusing on different things, just the time aspect of going back home and seeing them, you don't have that at all. It was a big sacrifice but, at the end of the day, it was worth it.

At What Cost' means so many things: go-gos were shut down for our good, but at what cost?

I turned down a lot of money by not going to Chelsea, but that's not what I'm interested in.

I hope that the little sacrifices that I make in my life - being away from my daughter, my husband and I not seeing each other as much - I hope it does inspire young girls to realize they can be whatever they want in this life.

Now that I know the dangers? Yes, I still would do it again. Why? 'Cause look at me. Look at my family. They're able to eat, they're able to have food and shelter over their head. Would I play football again? Yes.