Alexis Bledel Quotes

I don't want to spend my life doing jobs that I don't care about.

If I didn't believe in what I'm doing, I'd rather go to work in a dime store.

Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

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.

I can't tell you how many times I quit only to realize that when the work has been your life, you don't really have a life without it.

You've got to love what you do. You've got to like doing it, because it is a lot of your life.

I love what I do, and I do it 24/7, and it hurts my relationships very often, but it's worth it.

I want to be in love with what I do at all times, and I want to stay in love.

My career is really important to me, but there have to be other great, important things in your life besides work.

Baseball is not what I love. It's my job.

Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.

I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.

I accept a role only if it's something I really, really like.

I read a quote by James Dean when I was 17; he said, 'I'd rather starve than do a whole bunch of work that I don't care about.' The older I got, the more I understood what he was saying. If I want to do a whole lot of work that I don't care about, then I would probably be working in a law office somewhere.

I really enjoy my time off. If I'm going to go to work, it has to be something I really believe in, or else it's totally tedious.

I do not separate my job and my personal life; therefore, I never work and never rest.

It's getting harder to make decisions to just want to do something to work... I'm trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.

Imagine choosing a job not on money or even on career advancement, but as part of a life worth living.

I know I'll always work. In what form, it really doesn't matter.

Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.

I'm more interested in my life than I am in my career. I don't want to not work. I do enjoy working, but not to the point where that's the only thing I focus on.

I don't want to do anything that I'm not passionate about.

I've worked every day since I was 10. I don't know how to do anything else. There is nothing else I'd rather be doing.

What about the rat race in the first place? Is it worthwhile? Or are you just buying into someone else's definition of success? Only you can decide that, and you'll have to decide it over and over and over. But if you think it's a rat race, before you drop out, take a deep breath. Maybe you picked the wrong job. Try again. And then try again.

A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.