Careers Quotes

Almost every problem people face in their careers and other aspects of their lives - such as failed diets, marriages, and financial problems - are all the result of not taking enough action.

I am a career public servant. Until the aftermath of Benghazi, I loved every day of my job.

I don't think there's any connection between my journalism career and my film career. They are two totally different mediums and very different skills.

I've never felt like my career has been on fire.

When you look back at your career, there are moments that are levels that you hit and you bounce off them.

Looking back on my own career, I've come to the conclusion that too much money is worse than too little.

I reckon it's more of an external perspective that on some level you really can control and dictate how your career's going to go.

Early in my career, my 3-, 5- and 9-irons performed differently than my other irons. But I adapted and made them work.

I used to believe that if my career was going great, then I was not entitled to a great personal life. Well, I've stopped thinking that way. I believe I can have it all.

Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother.

Throughout my career I have been talked out of things I wanted to do, and when I look back, I think I should have followed my instincts.

People are often surprised by the fact that I laugh a lot, that I look like Lena Dunham, and that I don't want to make relationship dramas for the rest of my career.

I think that you should just create if you have the urge to create. There's a lot of other careers you can pursue to seek attention. If people want validation, there are other ways to get that.

My fathers peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.

While I believe that my lengthy career provides sufficient evidence for consideration of my nomination, I am convinced the efforts to obtain Executive Branch materials and information will continue.

You know, things kind of happen organically and, you know, Broadway sort of happened out of a career in performing and - which happened out of practicing piano when I was a kid.

I'm not as focused on my acting career as I have been in the past.

I can now shed the child-actor thing, like the fat, and start a new career, because no one sees me as Dudley.

Sometimes I wonder why I'm a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became a writer. And now I'm a successful writer.

So there's no such thing as one too many this, one too many that. I remember, you're reminding me of early in my career, somebody said to me: why are you taking so many roles as a policeman.

I think at the age I'm at, it's really hard for a film career, and I'm at a point in my life where I thought it would be a good idea to be a part of a good show and to be able to finish school.

Women or mothers in middle age or mid career have valuable life experience and may offer an untapped recruitment pool.

For so many generations, a woman's only career path was to marry well and to marry up. Those days have changed.

When I was making films [early in my career] there were very, very few female directors, and there were certainly no women on set, which made taking one's clothes off all the more difficult.

The internet has been incredible in regards to the selling of my CD. I don't know how it's affected or will affect my acting career.

It's incredible to have been part of fashion history - my whole career has been one big highlight.

Let's pretend my career in music is a bell. Whether you like my music or not is up to you. But you've got to admit I rang that bell pretty hard and pretty often.

Somebody said, 'Hey, there is a lull in your career. Why don't you write books about your [dyslexia]?' We are currently writing our 34th novel.

All of the major accomplishments that I have made in my career have been in many instances against the odds.

I would have been a disaster as a career politician. I would never have toed a party line.

I pretty much have made a career out of playing real life people.

One day after laying a wreath at the tomb of Martin Luther King Jr., President Bush appoints a federal judge who has built his career around dismantling Dr. King's legacy.

It took a long time to get to the place in my career where I could pick and choose what I wanted to do.

I've always had a hunger for realizing myself through my career.

The rhythm of my career has always been very static, staccato and then silent, and then a lot of work, and then none

I love boxing. I really respect the guys and admire the guys who do it. But, I'm very, very happy with my career as an actor. I made the right choice.

I'm only concerned with making music that I love and that my fans will respond to. I am happy to see other really good young artists able to flourish and pursue their careers.

My career means the world to me and it's something I'm very proud of.

Living frugally is one of the best things an author can do to prepare for their career.

My agent said to me five years ago, 'Hugh, I can see one day you... if I had to plan a goal for you, it's for you to have the kind of career that Sinatra had.'

I wasn't pursuing a musical career or anything. It just happened and then it was there.

I like the fact that I'm involved in a career that gives me so many different mediums to perform in.

The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.

I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that's how I started my career.

I've been around a lot longer than most rappers stay around. So I don't feel like, I haven't made too many career mistakes.

My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.

You know, film is the ultimate goal in an actor's career. I mean, I still love TV. I have my feet firmly stamped in it. But my opportunities have been bigger and better.

Fortunately my career has never been about how I look, it's about how I can be.

When I thought my professional career was over, it hadn't even started yet.

I had no luck when I started out as a model. I keep telling people that it's the only career in the world that you can't choose for yourself - you have to be chosen.