Iliza Shlesinger Quotes

I always felt I needed to teach to survive.

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.

Work is the only meanin' I've ever known.

I would not want to live if I could not perform. It's in my will. I am not to be revived unless I can do an hour of stand-up.

Let the world know why you're here, and do it with passion.

In life you need either inspiration or desperation.

I always felt there was some kind of nobility centered in my desire and passion for what I do.

You need fear to create, to live.

It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.

Music, even if I ended up doing something different or do end up doing something different in the long run, it's just something that is life blood. If I'm not participating in some way, I feel like I'm wasting my time.

Motivation is just this potion to create stuff, a compulsion to express the truth of my own experiences in this life.

But I really believe that you don't do music because you want to, you do it because you have to.

I don't have much in life but my work is what makes me alive.

I wouldn't be alive without my work.

The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.

If a person has no dreams, they no longer have any reason to live. Dreaming is necessary, although in the dream reality should be glimpsed. For me this is a principle of life.

And if a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up. I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

I always think in life passion supersedes everything.

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

Working is living to me.

When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live.

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.