Careers Quotes

I had someone very close to me say to me that hopefully I’ll have many more ups and downs, not in just my career but in life. If you don’t have that, you’re not taking enough risks.

Faith is huge and I am a proud Christian. I think it would be difficult to have a career like the one we have without having faith.

My mother doesn't really embarrass me. Even when I was young. She understands my career.

If you look a little punkish, then they’re going to give you the parts. And if you play an iconic villain early on in your career, you tend to get asked to play one over and over and over again.

If I feel like I've reached this greatness in my career than there's no more room for growth. I don't think I'm ever going to get there. If I ever get complacent, it's time for me to bow out.

Why do you think that at 67 I would start a career as a dictator?

The highlight of my career? The Olympics, of course.

It took me a long time to get to where I'm at, in my career and as a man. I was going through my trials and tribulations in life, and it gave me the strength to tackle things that have come my way.

I have no intention of ending my career in a rooming house, with full scrapbooks and an empty stomach.

Working with Ronnie Barker was always a joy and were without doubt some of the best years of my career

You know, your career is just your career; your life is your life!

Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?

I always knew I wanted to have a good career, so I made it happen.

At some point in your career, someone is going to tell you, "This stove is hot. Do not touch this stove." And the weird thing is, you'll want to touch it. But resist that urge, man.

I was looking very much for a career. My second marriage to Stan Herman had ended, and I wanted very much to be independent, not take alimony from him, be on my own, do the right thing.

I never set out to make men a career; it just happened that way.

Although it was a great accomplishment to win a gold medal, as soon as they put it on you, that's it; your career is over.

My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't.

I found in my whole career the best thing that can happen to you is that you hear what people want.

Boxing was the only career where I wouldn't have to start out at the bottom. I had a good resume.

I think my career would probably be in a better place had I been more aggressive. But I don't have it in me. I'm not a competitive person, and I'm also really private.

Military pay has been allowed to lag behind to the point where career enlisted men with families to feed have been forced to resort to food stamps.

Well, I don't think there's any need for people to focus on my career.

Whatever career you're in, assume it's going to be a massive failure. That way, you're not making decisions based on success, money and career. You're only making it based on doing what you love.

Romance should be spontaneous, but in my career I'm totally in control.

Thank God I didn't put my career over family. That would have been the biggest mistake of my life. I'm really happy it went the way it did.

I love everything about entrepreneurship and about owning your career and doing what you love to do.

Everyone knows that marriage is the biggest personal decision you make, but it's the biggest career decision you can make.

Breathes there a man, whose judgment clear Can others teach their course to steer, Yet run himself life's mad career Wild as the wave?

There are direct paths to a successful career. But there are plenty of indirect paths, too.

Political suicide can end a career.

My sense is, I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.

A career is a series of ups and downs, of comebacks.

I know that people will remember me as Miss Universe because it was my first great achievement, but I still have my whole career ahead of me.

Now I'm a painter. That was another opportunity I was able to pursue, I've been painting all my life, now it's become a second career because of my success in the movies.

Early in my career as an engineer, I’d learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional.

Having this other career in music made me work harder as an actress. It's made me more professional.

I talked to the ball a lot of times in my career. I yelled, "Go foul. Go foul."

I sometimes think I've needed a bit of an arm around me in my career - which I've not always got from certain managers and coaches who didn't understand me.

I'd like to think that throughout my career whatever my current record is has 110% of my best.

I thought that I'd have a briefcase-and-power-suit career.

Most people, if they're doing really well in their career, often don't have the right intimacy with their partner, or they're doing great in their home life, but their finances are a mess.

Actors' careers are random with a capital "R."

A lot of hard work has to go into your career, and preparation, and being your best at all times.

I think it's a lot harder for the pros to have a long career in ice dance and in pairs. It seems the singles have a little bit of a longer career.

Some idea of inflation comes from seeing a youngster get his first job at a salary you dreamed of as the culmination of your career.

I've been very lucky. I've had three separate careers: freelance illustrator, then set designer, puppetteer and animator, and now fine artist. I just bluffed my way into every one of 'em!

I've always had to create my own markets and I've always been at a juncture in my career.

I am saying that I was able to mold those hours around the needs of my family, and that matters. And I really encourage other people at Facebook to mold hours around themselves.

I was trying my best to just stop that ball from going over the fence, I'd sacrifice my body if I have to. I've done that my whole career.