Priscilla Chan Quotes

Everything I've done has been personally fun, important, and meaningful to me.

Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like.

I guess I made a resolution years ago that I would only do things that were only really important or really fun.

My career is important but it's not the be-all and end-all of my life.

I don't want my life to be about a house and a car.

I'm not a masochist. I'm simply into trying to enjoy what I do, because otherwise there's no point.

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

The only thing that I am ambitious about is to live a good life. Full stop.

Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.

It took the producers a while to realize I wanted a full-bodied life. I wanted to get out before I felt I'd sacrificed so much to get somewhere that I couldn't afford to leave.

Life's philosophy, hm... I just say, 'Do what you do and have fun doing it and try not to be too miserable.'

Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy.

If you do things you like to do, then your life will be easy.

It's weird. I don't really have goals. I just try to make sure I'm enjoying what I'm doing. Once I start to get sick of it, the next thing becomes obvious.

I learned a valuable life lesson that summer. You should find something in life that you really enjoy and seriously consider making that your life's work.

I really feel sorry for people who are, who divide their whole life up into 'things that I like' and 'things that I must do.' You're only here for a short time, mate. Learn to like it.

You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.

I'm 47, You learn life is short and it's not worth doing something if you don't enjoy it.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

I couldn't do anything I didn't enjoy.

I don't think life is about a pace, living slow or fast. I think you just live, y'know what I mean?

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

You don't do everything in life in order to make money.

If you're not having fun - I don't care what you're doing - don't do it. Move on. Find something else, life's too short.

P is positive emotion, E is engagement, R is relationships, M is meaning and A is accomplishment. Those are the five elements of what free people chose to do. Pretty much everything else is in service of one of or more of these goals. That's the human dashboard.