Careers Quotes

I enjoyed being president, but the campaign against Guinea worm [horrible disease] has opened up a completely new career that is challenging and unpredictable and adventurous - and very gratifying.

I've had a blessed career, and that has been acknowledged in many ways over the years.

I will always have a career. I believe in working. I don't believe that taking care of your house and children is enough for a woman. You don't feel complete.

I am so out of the loop. I am never honored. My career is hilarious to me. I am either under the radar or over the radar.

I started my career in a town so small the local clinic was called Fred's Hospital and Grill.

Nothing about my life or my career has been linear.

Might I be ridiculous? Might my career in music be laughable? Yeah, that's possible, but that's certainly not my intention.

People who face too many demands - two careers, two children - often scale back somehow. The Obamas scaled up.

People say as a woman actor your career is over at 40. But then they told me I would never work again after I was 16.

I was never the ingenue or the pretty girlfriend of Tom Cruise in a movie. I didn't have that career, so I don't have to compete on that level.

I look back at my career when I was younger and can connect what I was going through at the time with the characters I was playing. I see the similarities in them reflecting on my life.

I think it's cool when Scorsese will pop up in a movie or something like that. I never want to make a career out of that or anything. I like directing. That's my favorite thing.

You get so tired of political correctness. I'm noted for speaking out all my career.

I've been a strong supporter of public financing my whole career. I'm the first guy to introduce a public financing bill to the United States Senate in 1973.

The lacy fight was a career defining fight.

For the last thirty years in my career I never know what I'm doing next.

There are definitely things about 'Legendary Child' that echo the music we did earlier in our career. It's got the right stuff.

I never envisioned what I was doing as part of a career.

I'm quite spontaneous in my decisions often. Your career is kind of what happens whilst you're busy developing other screenplays, and so it came out of the blue.

It's important to have the right agent - people that are working hard for you. But an actor needs to be in control of their career no matter how good the representation is.

One consistent thing in an otherwise inconsistent career is that I've always been passionate about parliament.

Acting careers dont come out fully formed - not unless your name is Jaden Smith and your dad has done it all.

Too often when people think of their journey into leadership, they envision a career path. What they should be thinking about is their own leadership development!

I don't deliberately go into comedy or go into indies, but I do deliberately try to keep changing tact, because I think that is the key to longevity in a career.

People do not choose a career; the career envelopes them.

I lost my job and started painting houses with a friend. The marriage had ended about the same time the career did.

Great performers are, by definition, abnormal; they strive throughout their entire careers to separate themselves from the pack.

Where else, in a non-totalitarian country, but in the political profession is the individual expected to sacrifice all-including his own career-for the national good?

I believe careers should be judged independently unless there's a clear conflict of interest in a specific case.

Clean energy is good for the environment, good for national security, and good for thousands of Americans who desire a rewarding career.

Comedy does offer an avenue to television and film careers for untelegenic people that great drama does not.

Looking back, I have to say that I've been fortunate to work with a lot of great people. Unfortunately, a lot of them are gone. But I look back and, yeah, I have had a really great career!

Leadership is more important than people's political career at times.

I'm not a plotter or a schemer. I'm a guy that looks at problems and tries to solve them, which I have done all of my career, creating jobs in Washington, creating jobs in Ohio.

I understand that I have become a liability to the very institutions and policies to which I have dedicated my career and, indeed, my entire adult life.

I'd love to make a second film, I'd love to make a third, and I'd love to have a long career doing this.

I began my career in Los Angeles and started working fairly quickly.

For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.

It is an occupational risk of biologists to claim, towards the end of their careers, that the problems which they have not solved are insoluble.

I don't want to date celebrities, I don't want to roll out of clubs absolutely steaming, make an idiot out of myself. I want to concentrate on my music career.

Throughout my career, I had the great fortune to experience firsthand as well as to witness what it means to be a CIA officer.

I went through a really low period about 13 years ago, when all aspects of my career and everything went completely wrong.

The word 'career' and 'actor' really don't fit in the same paragraph, let alone sentence. There is no career structure for actors.

I am very healthy. Career wise, even old men get to be in movies. So as long as I am healthy, I will continue to make movies.

I wouldn't trade my career with anybody's. I'd trade a few movies with Tom Hanks - 'Apollo 13 and 'Forrest Gump' - but other than that, I love my career.

I'm too busy looking for the next role to do. I think about how to continue, to survive in the same vein. I like my career and my life as it is.

I think that young people understand me perfectly. I think that's the luckiest thing about my career, that I get older and they get younger, and it didn't stop with my generation.

The only way I've learned to change anyone's mind politically is to make them laugh. My whole career has been about that.

I am convinced that in my own career I could usually have hit 30 points higher if I had made a specialty of hitting.

Earlier in my career, fans weren't a big consideration for me.