Careers Quotes

I don't want only a career.

The beginning of my career was so brilliant. It wasn't until ten years later that I went, 'Oh, that was a big, fat fluke and, boy, was I ever lucky.

I thought if I had straight hair and a perfect nose, my whole career would be different.

I've always been very focused on my career. But, it's good to have people [say], "Okay, you need a vacation." "I do? Oh yeah, you're right. I think I do."

It wasn't until I discovered comics that I actually began to approach drawing as a possible career.

If I can win a Cup race, that would pretty much show my whole career that I've been able to win in everything I've gotten into.

I don't want to end my career and then start something. I like to do something while my career is still hot and I've always enjoyed designing.

My music career has been very rewarding, but success never came easily.

Every single organization - or career, for that matter - exists on three levels: WHAT you do, HOW you do it and WHY you do it.

You definitely have to be focused at certain times in your life and in your career, but at the end of the day, there's only so much you can do. Then you just have to chock it up to fate.

My parents, especially my dad, had a big influence on my hockey career. He introduced me to the game when I was younger, and I stuck with it.

It was a tough. Sixteen games into my career, we had a coaching change. It was something I never experienced before, and something I had to go through a lot earlier in my career than I expected.

In my career, I learned that giving your services for free gives you a good return on your investment, not just financially but morally. It supplements your personal integrity.

Earlier on in my career I felt that I had to hide behind a lot of different masks, and showboat ways of performing. Now, that's a lie. The less I have to hide, the less I have to act.

I don't even trust myself in my career much less giving somebody else advice.

Bobby Cox had the biggest influence in my career and probably the second- or third-biggest influence in my life.

I like being in love. I want to be in love, but at this stage of my life, my career is, by far, the most important thing to me. It's my passion.

I've been so fortunate throughout my career, when I was doing theater, more theater than anything else, and when I was doing films that I got a chance just to do a broad range of things.

Being funny wasn't a career choice growing up, it was my way out of situations; a way to survive another day.

I was backstage in Paris and saw Cindy Crawford doing House Of Style. I thought, I would love to to be in control of my career.

People always ask me if I'm going to stop modeling because I have started an acting career. I hope to continue to model for years to come.

I have never taken my career seriously. My only ambition was to grow as an actor.

It's thematic in my career, if you look at most of my choices. It is some level of exploration of maternal angst and maternal heroism.

Every fight can be the last one, that's why for every fight I prepare myself like it's the last fight of my career.

Every man is captain of his career and there must be cooperation all around if he is to get what he wants out of life.

It is a career that can be enhanced or destroyed by success.

I was aware, however, that telling at any point in my career could adversely affect my future career

I have loved filmed from when I was a child, but I never considered it as a future career.

I am hoping for a long career.

I’d recommend learning to accept rejection. Become friends with rejection. Be nice to rejection, because it’s a huge part of being a writer, no matter where you are in your career.

When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.

It's great when talented people in the world, in the same business, can see your work and compliment you on what you're doing and take a strong interest in your movements in your career.

I wanted to make sure that I did one movie in my career that mothers hug me for.

I'm living at a very intense discomfort level because my career has been predicated on safety.

When the opportunity to choreograph came up, it was nothing more in my head but an opportunity. Then it suddenly became a career very quickly.

One of the by-products of being allowed to start my professional career prematurely is that the evolution of my work is really evident.

I'm not oblivious to that connotation of changing careers, so I'm just going in and doing the job. I think that you can't fake doing the job. All I want to do is deliver. That's my focus.

Im dating a very high-maintenance career.

I don't envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways.

The bosses can't read your mind, so I think women should tell them what they want out of their careers.

I've spent my entire career being a satirist.

My parents didn't make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate - he didn't have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.

I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.

This rock thing got in the way of my teaching career.

My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom - it was almost overwhelming.

At this point in my career, I don't have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things. My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.

One of the hardest things I've had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.

The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I've parodied over the years.

When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.

Choosing a spouse and a choosing career: the two great decisions for which society refuses to set up institutional guidance.