Careers Quotes

We need timeless principles to steer by in running our organizations and building our personal careers. We need high standards --- the ethics of excellence.

...It's more important than ever that we find new ways to cultivate curiosity - because our careers, our happiness, and our children's flourishing all depend upon it.

Careers are here and they're gone. No matter how great we think we are, we're nothing but the temples of Ozymandias-we're ruins in the making.

My career has had a lot of ups and downs, but basically it has been wonderful.

Over the years, I have seen too many politicians ruin their careers because they could not accept defeat graciously.

I got to work with one of my heroes, Johnny Depp, and to see how he goes about business, which was really inspiring for me at this stage in my career.

I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult finding the right roles. It's been an interesting ride as far as my career pendulum is concerned

I worked 10 years as a toy designer before I started my career as a fashion designer. It's something I just fell into and really liked.

Careers can disappear just as quickly as they're made, so I'm in no hurry.

Surprising people is the key to career longevity for someone like me.

My family responsibilities don't conflict with my career. Not at all.

Actually, the books were never a planned career path.

My mom is two people to me. She's my mom number one, and then she's this lady most comedians know as being a legendary owner of a nightclub that's responsible for starting a lot of heavy careers.

If you're lucky enough to pick what you do, that's the greatest career you can have. Ultimately, that's my goal: to have choices.

I am sorry about the person who is not truly excited about his job. He will not only never truly be happy there, but he won't achieve anything great.

If you love and serve man, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape remuneration.

The Parent Trap gave my career another boost, starring in family comedies.

I gave everything in my career so I have no regrets at all.

It so happened that my goals kind of matched my career progression toward becoming an astronaut.

I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

In my career, my movies tend to polarize critics.

My career has been my craziest adventure.

One day when a linesman starts to laugh I swear I will hit the guy over the head with my racket. I think it will be the end of my career, but I will be happy.

I don't think many actors are the best judge of careers. I think generally we have good instincts about what we can do in terms of acting. And often they become directors, which I don't want to be.

Wherever I went, crowds appeared again, and I started making solo albums for the first time in my career.

I very much enjoyed my career in science. I didn't leave science because I was disillusioned, but felt I'd done my bit for it after about twenty-five years.

When you have won everything in your career, what's left? Why go on?

As far as I am concerned, the first episode of Buffy was the beginning of my career. It was the first time I told a story from start to finish the way I wanted.

But I would defy anyone to go back over the years and tell me anyone whose career I've ruined, anyone whom I've driven out of the service, anyone I've fired from a job.

When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career.

This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience.

My career at Warner Brothers consisted of one musical short subject. I was running around in a bear skin. Very chic.

A lot of times, in the beginning of my career, I put pressure on myself just because I wanted to perform so well. I just wanted to be perfect.

I devoted my career to building an affinity with my fans who have supported me unflinchingly and no barbed wire fence or prison wall will stop that.

I do not have a daily routine, but each morning, I try to spend an hour in bed, visualizing positive outcomes for my life, health, and career.

I just feel that no matter what comes in a career - and mine has been all over the map - you must stay at the table, pick up the cards you're dealt and play them.

Maybe further down the road in my career, in a couple of years when I'm maybe not that fast any more around the court, then maybe it would be good to come to the net a little bit more often

Throughout her career, Ana Barbara has cultivated endless hits; each of her albums was a true musical surprise... this is why today she is honored with the title of Queen of Grupero.

Part of the early Who career was all about knocking people's confidences out.

Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman.

I've cheated myself: there are other things I could have done to fill out the bouquet of my career.

It's awkward doing it with anybody, but it's like Twister.

Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.

I've spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what's going on so that they have a chance of getting a fair shake from the connected and the powerful.

To me the Olympic spirit embodies the magic of competition, hard work and coming to a point in your career when you're around the best athletes in the world, and having the whole world watching.

About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient.

Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the struggle for equal rights.

I love taking on roles that I haven't yet done in my career.

[My] career was sputtering until [I] did a 360 and got headed in the right direction.