Alun Wyn Jones Quotes

When I first arrived in Los Angeles I became a little bogged down in the whole success thing. Now I'm at a place in my life and career where I just want to work. It's what I do and it makes me very happy.

I started out in the journalism program, but I got kicked out. I wasn't very good at it. It wasn't where I wanted to be ultimately.

It's the typical mid-life crisis kind of thing, where you just stop and wonder, 'Should I go back to university and get a law degree?' I kind of looked around me and thought, 'What kind of idiot am I that I've just spent the last 10 years writing novels? Financially, I'm pretty much where I was when I was 28.'

My career is my whole life, so if I'm not happy with that, it affects everything else.

My career has been the best part of 50 years. If I had to go through it all again, I'd love to, warts and all. There have been so many good things that they outweigh the bad. But I do have regrets.

I don't want to look back on my career at some point and say, 'What a pity, I came close a few times, but it was never good enough.'

If I were to finish my career without a title, I would certainly be disappointed. But I don't think it would be something that would eat away at me... I think I certainly would be able to live with it.

I haven't done as many films as I would have liked.

When work is not going well, it's useful to remember that our identities stretch beyond what is on the business card, that we were people long before we became workers - and will continue to be human once we have put our tools down forever.

It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.

Money is not everything. My ambition was football itself, not the money I'd make from it. If that brings me and my family a more comfortable lifestyle, then that's fine. But I don't spend my time between games and training sessions thinking about figures.

I've been wondering for a while now if the CEO role is one that I want - and the one that I'm best at.

Many people think all I do is some random engineering work in between caving expeditions. It's been far more deliberate than that.

I do wish I'd had a better career. Who wouldn't?

Sometimes with people their work is the most important thing to them, and sometimes the work enables you to do other things that are more important to you. I probably am closer to that.

Find your passion is in life, and do what you can to integrate that into your work life. That's not to say you won't have occasional frustrations in your job - that just goes with the territory - but at least you'll feel better inside, and that, over time, will mean more to you than you might think.

Don't get me wrong: I'm overjoyed with my career to date. But perhaps I could have done more. Mostly, I just did whatever the directors told me to do.

What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.

I don't know what drives me. I need to work. I wanted to be in the entertainment field, but I didn't know what.

So many things I thought I was doing have fallen apart. Until I've finished filming, I don't believe I have the job.

Many feel discouraged because they have not measured up to their potential.

When we are caught up in the nature of our work and are asked to take on another job or position, rarely do we step back and ask ourselves, 'What do I really want to do? What is it at this point in my career and life that is important to me?'

Work has never really been work for me. It's been a natural extension of my life.

You can maintain work-life balance even while pursuing careers.

I haven't ever really been close to retiring. I've threatened myself, that kind of thing. There were moments where I'm struggling or not healthy: It's like, OK, is this the best way I can spend my 20s? Is this something that's going to help me in the future, or I might as well be fishing or gaming.