Career Choice

Richard Pinhas
“Being a musician is to live, not to survive. Surviving is going to work every day and giving up your liberty and your time. When you do music, it’s a free life.” ~Richard Pinhas

Carlos Castaneda
We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. ~Carlos Castaneda

Mark Twain
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. ~Mark Twain

George Bernard Shaw
This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one: being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. ~George Bernard Shaw

Henry David Thoreau
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~Henry David Thoreau

Dwight D. Eisenhower
If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking . . . is freedom. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower