Career Quotes
What inspires you to do what you do is the reason why you persist, even in the face of trouble.
Rational conduct on the basis of the idea of calling, was born... from the spirit of Christian asceticism.
There is no need for comparison. Be happy with yourself and find satisfaction in your work.
Those that know where they are going will not take any path they see in front of them, but they will take the one that goes in the direction they want.
The quality of your ideas 'your actual thoughts' determines your success more than you think.
Doing his utmost, deploying all his energy, a young man setting out from zero can wind up after ten years somewhere below where he started.
In regards to climbing the ladder of success, there is a better future, with a greater purpose. One can find it, only if he or she searches for it.
In our circle, stress was a valuable status marker: I stress, therefore I am.
I am, after all, an adult, a grown man, a useful human being, even though I lost the career that made me all these things. I won't make that mistake again.
Imagination is pure potentiality for creation. We shouldn't submit it to the hourly wages we subject our time at work.
Maslow did not make two different pyramids, one for men and one for women. He did not differentiate in identifying what men want and what women want.
The goal is to create a “chit, ” or IOU, so that, assuming you continue to perform well, the organization feels like it owes you the next time.
Take advantage of losing your job by making it an opportunity to find a better one..
Self-awareness is the key to find our uniqueness. The latter increases our chance to succeed in our personal, career, and business lives...
Every crossroad in life has four options – quit, adapt, proceed, or accept, but quitting is a dead-end.
Political skills are essential career competencies to get ahead and stay ahead.
In a sense, discouragement does not have to exist. Allow it to be rather the encouragement to honestly reconsider all the options, then, as necessary, shine on.
Your manager wants to believe that you enjoy your job, or at least you won't spit in her coffee when she looks away. At the office, attitude counts for a lot.
Do what you love but do what it takes to do what you love.
People leave companies for two reasons. One, they don't feel appreciated. And two, they don't get along with their boss.
Preparation, application and determination are three of the most important factors that enable you to regain your sparkle and shine like never before.
You may possibly become rich by just caring about yourself and what you want to gain from your profession and your life but you cannot possibly enrich the lives of everyone you meet that way.
When it comes to your talent, translate the intangible into the tangible.
When you make the decision to start something new, first figure out the jobs you want to do. Then position yourself to play where no one else is playing.
Your career has but one goal: To ensure your book of life is more than an anthology of salary slips.
Your employees' ability to take satisfying and productive steps towards career goals is directly proportionate to their self-awareness.
Successful people do what others know they should do but will not. To become a success, or just be *more* successful, you will do what average, less-motivated people will not.
Putting lifestyle first is how you find a job-- not a calling.
It's a gift of tranquility when your adult desires mesh with your childhood background. I don't quite know why mine didn't, although I think books, again, are partly to blame.
Thinking about work as a day job has made a big difference in the way I approach what I do. It also helped me not to confuse who I am with what I do.
No one can discover you until you do. Exploit your talents, skills and strengths and make the world sit up and take notice.
Fall makes me think that if I fail horribly at this art thing, and then fail horribly with this writing thing, I'll go run a pumpkin patch.
Wellsted will remember this moment for the rest of his life. It is the first time he desires something for himself that is not dedicated to his own advancement. It is the moment he falls in love.
The more closed your network, the more you hear the same ideas over and again, reaffirming what you already believe, while the more open your network, the more exposed you are to new ideas.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The lucky people that end up doing what they love even find out somethings that they don't love it as much as they thought.
She don't only believe in Shoes & cars.... She do believe in Super Star. That's the kind of girl you need bro, the girl that will believe in you & support your career.
Many existing top 20 Scottish writers have flourished in part because of good turns done by institutions, arts community, libraries and bookshops.
