Are you doing work worth doing, or are you just doing your job?
If your job is not making a difference in this world, by all means, get out there and find something else ... You’ll find a sense of making a difference through your work if you simply look for it.
What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.
I always grapple with myself, from job to job, 'Is this going to make an impact in some way?'
Unless you have a perception of who you are as a lawyer, you will never be at ease in dealing with legal matters, clients, or courts. But if you know who you are and why you're there, all you need is the expertise and the information.
As long as I feel like I'm helping kids get better, I don't see why I should stop.
The way to know about championship quality is to learn from champions, and that I did; studying them with professional purpose during my time in the ring and from habitual interest afterward.
I don't mind being in the public eye as long as I am doing something substantial.
Intellectually, I loved my job, but I didn't get any meaning from it.
Is it worth the aggravation to find yourself a job when there's nothing worth working for?
It's perfectly possible to spend forty hours a week on a job that's meaningless, as long as you know what your real vocation is and find some way to express it. Then you won't confuse your job with the meaning of your life.
I am fierce for work. Without work I am nothing.
Regardless of whatever job you do, you want to see the importance of it or how it can be important. I think by inspiring the people that I come from - if I inspire anyone - would be worth it.
Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for.
I don't really have a career plan. There's no joy for me to just be a personality in my work, and I feel that that's so much of what's out there.
What you do is more important than how much you make, and how you feel about it is more important than what you do.
What keeps me going is those cases, maybe ten a year, where I can make a difference.
I think it's fun to have work that you can relate to, that you can feel like is meaningful.
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.
An actor has to remember the primary reason why he chose the profession that he did. If every role that I do doesn't challenge me, then what is the point of being an actor?
I couldn't live if I wasn't a designer.
I've found my sweet spot here in public service.
I feel that what I do is a calling. I would pay to do what I do if I had to. I will never live long enough to do the work I want to do: the books I would like to write, the ideas I would like to explore.
