Hobby Quotes by Michael Gerber, Fortune Feimster, Adrian Tomine, Vin Diesel, David Alaba, Geoff Keighley and many others.
Everywhere you turn, there are lists and statistics. Any business, any sport, any hobby – we will try to categorize who is the best at some component of that endeavor. It’s part human nature and part technology, since we have been conditioned to have access to answers and trivial problems at our fingertips.
Now, when I was in the Army, writing was my hobby.
I was an electrician, and I started acting as a hobby because I needed a distraction – I was bored! And only when I started did I think, ‘Sheesh, what have I gotten into?’ I had to go after it fully; I just had to.
One thing debating did was bring me in contact with a whole social world that I had never experienced before. It’s sort of a very international, very niche hobby.
Life’s a hobby.
Searching for our kindred dead isn’t just a hobby. It is a fundamental responsibility for all members of the Church. We believe that life continues after death and that all will be resurrected.
I’d been acting as a hobby since I got to the U.K.
I started comedy as a hobby with no intention of making it my career.
Television is the most interesting hobby I’ve ever had.
I’m one of the biggest Ghost Rider fans ever. He’s been a hobby of mine ever since I was seven years old. I actually have a whole room in my house dedicated to Ghost Rider memorabilia.
Cooking’s my hobby.
The piano has been my friend all my life; it has always comforted me. Writing songs and sitting down at the piano is not only a business, it’s a hobby I enjoy.
I don’t think there’s a hobby that I haven‘t tried on.
My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids.
I grew up in a really small town with not a lot of money, and I liked singing, but it was just something that was a hobby.
The only consistent hobby I’ve had is studying Spanish and French because of some delusion of grandeur to work around the world. I love sports but usually I’m looking for the next job.
I studied communications, only because I could get my own show on the campus radio station. I never thought of it as a career. Music was always a really passionate hobby – it was like collecting DVDs or stamps.
I write and record all the time; it’s my hobby and my passion.
I think, since I was a kid, I had that independence of being driven and being motivated in whatever I did, whether school work or a sport or even a hobby.
In 2016, makeup has become an incredible passion and hobby for men and women, but it hasn’t become mainstream.
The profession is never going back to those days when a handful of wealthy people treated publishing like a hobby: one where the business can lose money because the family has lots of it to burn. Frankly, I don’t think that model was ever sustainable, and it really only enriched a small number of writers.
Filmmaking is kind of a vain hobby when maybe we should all be taking to the streets. But it seems irresponsible not to be informed by politics in some way.
I’ve been into cars my whole life, I’ve always bought and sold a few here and there on the side, as kind of a hobby.
If you’ve been told all your life that you’re good-looking, people just flock around you and you never really have to try or have to learn an interesting craft, skill or hobby – or even have depth.
When I went to college, it became more of a hobby, and that’s when I think I got the realest music education. It wasn’t something that I had to do. It wasn’t an obligation.
I’m a fairly ordinary person – a lifelong reader, a former software engineer, and former math teacher. I come from a wonderful family of teachers, musicians, librarians, and engineers. I think I surprised them as well as my friends and coworkers when I took up writing as a hobby and let it take over my life!
Racing is work, so that’s not a hobby.
Any good business is a hobby. We have an integrated company culture, and I can honestly say that many people who come here to work make Yandex a central part of their lives.
It was my fifth grade teacher who introduced the idea that writing could be more than a hobby for me.
I am often fond of saying the Trekkers are passionate about a hobby, their hobby is ‘Star Trek.’ They are by and large very imaginative, very intelligent people, and they certainly have been more than generous to me.
Writing is my profession. Photography is my hobby.
I recommend everyone who DJ’s to do it as a hobby and make sure you have a day job or are going to school. Only 100 DJ’s in the world make a living doing this, by that I mean making a good, comfortable living.
My singing is my hobby. It’s me and my brother. We just enjoy writing music.
I studied audio engineering at university. The background I am from, music was never seen as a viable career; it was always a hobby.
Writing music is sort of my hobby, but it’s been falling off more and more. Doing comic books takes up my entire life.
The Huffingtonpost.com does not pay its writers. Tina Brown‘s thedailybeast.com does pay its writers. You have to be paid because this is not a hobby. You have to keep that standard. You can’t ask grandpa to loan you money because you have to go to Afghanistan. I walked the picket line for that to continue.
I never had a hobby in my whole life until I wag 35. Then I discovered motorcycles, and they’ve now become almost a passion.
I grew up in a very musical family, but music was not encouraged as a career. It was a hobby.
I play golf with my shirttail out. I own a golf course because it’s very, very close to my house, and I don’t want to drive 45 minutes to the north side of Oklahoma City to play golf every day. I have race horses ’cause I love horses and it’s my hobby.
I’d love to maybe try writing. I don’t know if I’d publish anything, but as a hobby, it’s really nice. I bought a typewriter, and I really like to write on the typewriter sometimes. It’s a fun little hobby.
On an average day, I will spend 90 percent of my waking moments working on ‘Superwoman.’ I’m a huge workaholic. My hobby is ‘Superwoman.’
American business needs more conscience, not less, whether from religious motivation like Hobby Lobby or from secular intentions.
I was told growing up that the arts were just a hobby – that I couldn’t do it as a career.
I started comedy as a hobby, really, and it still doesn’t seem like a proper job.
If you ask me what my hobby is, I don’t have a traditional hobby.
I love sleep. I find sleep to be a hobby.
I did it for a living, made a career out of it, but now I’ve turned it into somewhat of a hobby.
I was always a visual artist my whole life, and I came to music really late – when I was 21 or 22 was the first time I ever touched a musical instrument. For me, it was always this fun side hobby.
I want to carry on in the music business and in television because it’s basically a hobby and a passion that I actually get paid for.
I wouldn’t have taken up modeling as a profession. It was more of a hobby.
Like so many other bored teens, I was a bored teen with a hobby. The only difference was mine was obsessing about crime.
I came to Mumbai for my internship in advertising in an ad agency. Back then, a senior from my college who was working for Balaji asked whether I wanted to act. I agreed, and I didn’t even know when it became my passion and my hobby.
I’m essentially working from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to sleep. It’s my biggest hobby but also my favorite career that I could ever have. Every single platform is important.
Acting and singing were just a hobby, but getting into drama school made me realise I could actually do it for a living.
One other hobby of mine has been playing the oboe but I have not kept this up after 1969.
I need a hobby, and I don’t want it to be basketball. I want it to be music. So to get away from music, I do other music.
Music has always been my passion. It was not a hobby or something I can take out of my life.
I might do a hobby or go to the movies, but everything comes back to basketball.
I have a new hobby and it’s pretty much logging.
I’ve done music as a hobby, either in musical theater or just jamming with friends, pretty much for as long as I can remember.
My work is my hobby and if I am not on the sets, I am at home with a bunch of very close friends.
Decorating has always been my hobby.
I never went to school for photography and started when I was pretty young. I was somewhere around 12 or 13. I started photographing as a hobby and carried that hobby through high school and university.
I like clothes and fashion. It’s a hobby for me and I really enjoy being part of it, so it’s nice when people say: ‘He can dress quite well.’
Competitive people, especially in sports, want to learn about everything. So when you’re interested in something, you become a bit obsessive. You start to research it and ask questions about it, and before you know it, you have a serious hobby because of how you’re programmed.
My father said writing was a nice hobby. He strongly encouraged my brother and me to become doctors.
Acting was just a hobby; I never needed butter from it.
All my life I’ve encountered people who were obsessed with one particular class of object or experience, who were constantly pursuing that thing. Since I was a little kid, I hadn’t afforded myself the opportunity, I guess, to have a hobby.
When I was younger, I was a little bit fat. I wasn’t, like, big-time fat; I was just overweight – maybe around when I was 13 or 14. At that time, I wasn’t practicing that much; tennis was just a hobby. But it wasn’t easy to feel that way.
As a student, I had a hobby of inventing new ideas for products. For me, thinking of new businesses is like inventing new products.
I have tried to create main characters who are drastically different from the types who generally appear in crime novels. Mikael Blomkvist, for instance, doesn’t have ulcers or booze problems or an anxiety complex. He doesn’t listen to operas, nor does he have an oddball hobby such as making model airplanes.