Source: Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
“Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.”
Source: Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
“You make a living by what you get; you make a life by what you give.”
Extensive research of writings by and about Churchill at the Churchill Centre http://www.winstonchurchill.org fails to indicate that Churchill ever spoke or wrote those words.
Some sites list Norman MacEwen as the originator of the quote.
Misattributed
Variant: We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Variant: We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
“…a poem is, so to speak, a way of making you forget how you wrote it…”
"The Woman at the Washington Zoo," [an essay about the writing of the poem by that name] from Understanding Poetry, third edition, ed. Cleanth Brooks (1960) [p. 319]
Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980)
Sports Illustrated January 2002.
Responding to a reporter asking whether or not he believed that other players merited salaries comparable to his own (i.e. $52,000 a year, as per Ruth's newly signed 1922 contract), as quoted in "Have to Get More of 'Em,' Says Babe Ruth When He Hears of the Income Tax," in The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (March 10, 1922)
