“If you're looking for work and have a choice of a job, choose a job that allows the opportunity for some creativity, and for spending time with your family. Even if it means less pay.” IfsMeanJobsChoicesOpportunityPayCreativitySpendingProfessionOur FamilySpending TimeLooking For WorkSpending Time With You Book:The Art Of Happiness At Work Source: The Art Of Happiness At Work
“You know when I decided to become professional - that means to expose yourself naked to the world with the other creative minds - I said, 'I'm going into areas I don't know. I might just fall right down to hell and kill myself.” KnowsWorldMindMeanSaidMightFallHellCreativeAreasDecidedProfessionNakedCreative Mind Author:Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
“It's a privilege, you know, to paint and it takes up a lot of time and it means there's a lot of things you don't do. But still, with me, painting was more than a profession, it was also an obsession. I had to paint.” KnowsMeanStillsPaintingPaintPrivilegeProfessionObsession Author:Alice Neel
“[The career a young man should choose should be] one that is most consonant with our dignity, one that is based on ideas of whose truth we are wholly convinced, one that offers us largest scope in working for humanity and approaching that general goal towards which each profession offers only one of the means: the goal of perfection ... If he works only for himself he can become a famous scholar, a great sage, an excellent imaginative writer [ Dichter ], but never a perfected, a truly great man.” IfsMenShouldMeanIdeasYoungHumanityGoalCareersOffersDignityPerfectionConvincedProfessionExcellentYoung ManGreat MenScholarSageScopeImaginativeConsonants Author:Karl Marx