Al Yankovic Quotes

If I'm not a successful human being, who I am?

The person I am is who I am. My life is my career, my career is my life.

My success is not who I am.

This is what I do for a living. It's not who I am as a human being.

For a long time, I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was desperate to find something that fit me and I just decided that if I could organically make a professional living out of the things that interested me, then I would be a happy person.

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.

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

I never wanted to be defined by what I did for a living.

I think of myself as a complete person, not just a football player and athlete.

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.

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

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.

'Who do you think you are?' That's the big one, isn't it? A flourishing life depends on how you answer that.

Work takes on new meaning when you feel you are pointed in the right direction. Otherwise, it's just a job, and life is too short for that.

That's the principle I teach - find your passion in life and figure out a way to make money.

Tennis is great, but it doesn't necessarily define me.

I've come to believe that whoever I am didn't start on December 14, 1946, and isn't going to end on whatever that mysterious date is in the future.

What I do now defines who I am as a woman and how people see me; they don't see me as a little girl.

The ultimate dream in life is to be able to do what you love and learn something from it.

I hope that in 5 years from now I'll be working and doing what makes me happy. Whatever that may be.

We are more than the work we perform. In fact, I'd say that our work is a mere representation of who we are underneath.

I want an identity outside of my work.

It is undeniable that a woman's ability to stretch and pursue her total competence outside the home and get paid what she's worth for it makes for happier and more fulfilled women.

It's the only way that YOUR life is gonna have any value to you. If you're just living the same life that everybody else is living what's the point?

Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.