Careers Quotes

When I had no shoes I was comfortable - I used to run barefoot. When I wore shoes it was difficult. To run in shoes was ok, but at the beginning of my career it was hard.

I think my entire career path was determined for me when I was 6 years old, watching reruns of 'I Love Lucy' on TV and thinking about making people laugh.

I always wanted to play music and have it be my career and knew this by the age of 12

It's nice to go to small places where we had a lot of fans. They followed our career and it's kind of a way to say thank you to them and do it for a good cause.

A single discovery within a lifetime is a very remarkable thing. Two over the course of a career-why, you'd be very lucky indeed.

My career suffered massively because I had a reputation for being a very tabloid person.

You should just enjoy it, but as soon as you decide that it is going to be your career, no matter whether you want to be a doctor or an architect or anything else, you need to work 5 hours a day.

I feel like I'm only in the beginning of my career. I've only made five albums. It's not a lot.

I'm sick of people sittin' in chairs stating their problems. Then we roll the videotape... then we have our experts on the topic... I'm in the 'What's next?' phase of my career.

After I left the podium in Atlanta, I felt so fulfilled in my career that I lost my desire to compete at that level again.

I wish I had stayed and finished my career here in New York.

Finally I decided that since peasants were the largest segment of the world's population, it would be an honorable and worthy career to devote my life to the study of peasants and agriculture.

The blues is something separate from what I do. They connect at certain spots, but blues is different. I wouldn't put it in with what my career has been. That would be a whole separate wing.

For me, the most interesting thing is longevity and sustaining a career, because that's what's truly difficult.

I spent most of my career, including my time at McKinsey, never acknowledging that I was a woman. And, you know, fast forward - I'm 43 now - fitting in is not helping us.

I think that's the best career that someone can have is one that's reflective of their personal tastes.

I think that if you can achieve a balance, then you appease a lot of yourself and your career and what it takes to maintain in this business for a while

In the career of female fame, there are few prizes to tie obtained which can vie with the obscure state of a beloved wife or a happy mother.

You can't buy back your respect; you can't buy back your career. You only get one, so I don't want to mess that up.

I had no idea that I could sustain a career as an artist. But, I loved music and wanted to be in the music business.

A Modern Mom to me is not always someone that juggles a career and family. A Modern Mom is a woman who takes care of herself on the inside and the outside.

For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.

The Tyson fight was like the hardest I ever trained for a fight in my entire career.

You know, I always root for the older athlete. I root for the second album. I root for solo careers after the rock star breaks the band apart.

Directors go their whole career without being able to tell personal stories and to work with a cast as talented as they are.

I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career.

I've been allowed to grow over the past twenty years. I've managed to avoid being trapped in one moment of my career and for that, I'm very thankful

The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.

I loved my boarding school, but I didn't know what I wanted to do. I didn't have a career.

I think to just single out a highlight of Elvis's career is pretty much impossible. As far as being a fan of his, a lifetime fan, there were just too many highlights.

I've kind of looked at my whole career as a spring training invite.

What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has become my trademark.

It's hard to know really how it's going to happen, but the career ebbs and flows and now there's a nicer feeling of interest than there has been at other times.

I would have to say News Radio is the highlight of my career. I love the character so much.

Dont expect fame to come overnight. That filtered through to me in my own career. Look at Madonna: shes not the best singer in the world, but shes got where she has through hard work.

I view my career like a rubber-band ball in that every role is a new experience building toward something bigger.

Jose DeLeon on his career has seventy-three wins and one-hundred and five RBIs.

The underpinnings of the alliance: the company helps the employee transform his career; the employee helps the company transform.

Being a rock & roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman.

In my career? Me. I'm the boss. I'm the end all and be all. I'm the alpha and omega in that.

Stand-up is the only career like that where once you get really big at it, people kind of encourage you not to do it.

Earlier in my political career, I had the opportunity to read the speech, and I almost threw up.

I can see myself staying at Blackburn for the rest of my career - unless I move to another club at some stage

My career has been a gradual climb. I think that's part of the reason why I've had longevity.

I still sing on bits and pieces. Singing's something that I love to do, but it's not something that I pursue as a career.

Men have to ask, 'How can I combine career and family?'

The key is to figure out what you want out of life, not what you want out of your career.

Denzel Washington's career is an enormous luxury. Compare him to Wesley Snipes.

The NBA wasn't a big deal at that time, so it wasn't really in my career plans.

I just want to go for it. In every aspect of my life and careers, I just want to give it all I have.