Robert Krulwich Quotes

When you find something that you really love to do, you kind of just know instantly that, OK yeah, I want to do this for the rest of my life.

I still don't know if I'm good enough or if it's a calling or a vocation or something, but the talent part is out. My desire to do it is undoubted. I just love doing this.

My wife asked me once if I weren't a comedian what I would do. I couldn't answer the question. I never imagined doing anything else.

I think for something like law or medicine you really have to love it and I didn't love it.

Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.

My career is my life and my passion. It's not a job, it's my life.

The truth is I would do my job for free! I love it every day. If you can possibly choose a vocation that's an avocation, a job that's really a hobby, then you'll be way ahead of the game. You should not pick an occupation because your think your parents want you to do it, or because you think it's the noble thing to do. You should only pick a job because it turns you on.

Whether you've found your calling, or if you're still searching, passion should be the fire that drives your life's work.

Anybody that has a decent job or career has it because they love what they do.

My rule is simply "love what you do". That certainly has brought me to the place I where am at right now. It really has been with the work.

If you find something you really love, you will never work again.

I think there are very few people, in my generation at least, that are that passionate about what they do.

When you're young, you don't think about your career or your future - you perform because you love it.

Make sure you love what you do or it will eat you alive.

You have to love what you do, and you have to need it like you need air. And there's nothing else that would give me the same degree of satisfaction as acting, which is why I can't walk away from it.

I've never felt that acting was my vocation - never had that tortured thing. I love acting, but it doesn't feed my soul.

When I got into college, I found what ultimately became my life's work. I couldn't sleep at night, I was so excited about it. So I'm attracted to people who play at that level. They actually want to play in their professional life.

You ought to love what you're doing because, especially in a movie, over time you really will start to hate it.

I'm very lucky that I love what I do. I've never thought of it as work. I've never done it for the money.

How many people are not as good as they could be at their job because they don't love it? They're not passionate about it. If you don't like something, why are you doing it?

Even as a young boy, my passion was to design, and I have been very lucky to be able to do what I have loved all my life. There can be few greater gifts than that.

Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.

I think I'm able to do so much because writing is what I love to do. So, often when I have free time, I choose to write and edit.

Converting your own passions into a job is the fastest method for eliminating any passion you once had.

Find what you love to do and you'll never work a day in your life, that's true. But also always try to fill a niche. What can you try to do that is different?