Temple Grandin Quotes

My professional life shouldn't be an influence on whether I spend time at home. My career is my whole life's blood. It's my calling.

My job is my life.

People who decide they came to earth to work, who make work their personal philosophy, are kept very busy.

I'm essentially working from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to sleep. It's my biggest hobby but also my favorite career that I could ever have. Every single platform is important.

My entire career, I've been a worker.

My life is very much consumed with work.

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.

I suppose I've always put the career, the job and politics, all of that first.

For myself, I can't understand a life without a job. I don't know what I would do without employment. Retirement is out of the question for me.

I'd go anywhere to work, so long as it's worth it.

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

The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.

I do not organize my private life with an eye to my career.

It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.

Your life is not defined by the one place where you work.

A huge part of my life is my job, and that's the highest compliment you can pay to any job.

I am all for career, whether pre- or post-marriage.

I don't believe in work-life balance. I think it's more about work-life integration because, increasingly, so much time of ours is spent doing work, so I've always wanted to dedicate my work life to having a social impact.

Your job, what you do every day, I think it takes a high priority over anything. That was something I dedicated myself to throughout my career.

My work is just a hobby. No, I wouldn't want to do it professionally. It's too hard. Deadlines are no fun. But I can sit and tweak all night and not worry about time.

I love being a mum but I do love to work too.

I've got a great life. It's a shame the work gets in the way of the golf, really.

For me, work is one thing, and my life is another.

I just want to make sure I have a sense of balance between work and life, because work is my life and the lines can get really blurry.

From the beginning, I imagined I would have a long work life.