Careers Quotes

It is better for your career to do nothing, than to do something and attract criticism.

In terms of a "career," I never have long-term plans, and certainly don't want to spend several years, say, writing a "long" novel.

One of the most sensitive expressions of hope, capacity for change and potential vehicles for institutional health that I have read in my career in criminal justice.

Nobody gets into a band and thinks they're going to have a 30-year career.

I have had a career in public service.

All through my comics career, I was always trying to reinvent the form.

I resented that my career wasn't going the way that it was supposed to. And I was angry that I wasn't getting the parts that I wanted.

The great break of my literary career was going to law school.

It's better to not set your expectations high. And that's what happens when you have a long career - not every album is going to be record setting.

To put it in my music, that's not the message I am trying to send out. That's not the type of artist I am trying to be.

Solving specific problems is what drives me. I am not interested in having a career. I never have been.

When I was young, I flirted with the idea of a career in journalism on one hand and politics on the other.

I'm a working actress able to make choices based on characters rather than what I 'should' do for my career.

I feel like I'm really young and I'm only thinking about my career and continuing playing.

I've always made some legendary comebacks since 1998 when it first started. So that's kind of just been my MO for my whole career.

All the good things in my career are a direct descendant of what I did and learned at #‎ camp

I owe a great deal of thanks to this man who will be gracious enough to say I've helped him with his career and comeback, but it's every bit the opposite.

If I hadn't had a childhood career, I probably would've signed a contract with the first person I came across.

I was more wishy-washy in the first 12 years of my career, just because that was my personality.

In the '60s, my father, Wally Amos, had been a talent agent and a personal manager before taking a major career detour in 1975, when he opened a store selling chocolate chip cookies.

I can't tell you how freeing it is to have my own label. For the first time in my career, I have total control.

I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there.

The best way to make room for both life and career is to make choices deliberately-to set limits and stick to them.

Any time you're a type, your career's over.

A career is a career, but youre a mother until you die.

We can't negate television. Unfortunately, I do feel in many ways that it did kill my movie career. It did do that. But would I not do it again? Do I have any regrets about doing it? No.

My acting career helped pull me through the rough times.

Acting as a career is a long term thing and that work is kind of progressive and you can build on a career. It's part of the great tradition of the theater to me.

I felt if I didn't find anything, I would give up a scientific career altogether.

Babe Ruth was not afraid to strike out. And it was this fearlessness that contributed to his remarkable career.

I realize that I really have to make music work for me as a career because I can't do anything else.

I moved out to L.A. when I was 17, dropped out of high school, and pursued a career in music.

I did not plan to have such a career in the fashion world. All that I wanted, was to have ten kids and raise them!

I found myself at a time in my career trying to impress everyone. I was constantly thinking about what everyone thought of my music.

I've never been the type of artist to plateau or have a big peak in my career and then a big decline.

A career in entertainment has a lifespan, like one in sport.

I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.

You need to have a life outside your career.

America has begun her career at the culminating point of life, as Adam did at the age of thirty.

The Internet had been a BIG help with my career. My advice to musicians, Internet is the key. It gets your music heard all across the world.

Usually a family is led through the mom or the dad and their career and for the family to be led by my career, even though God has led it, could be a lot of pressure.

My objective was to have as varied a selection of roles as possible. It probably did hurt my career.

I'm very career-driven, so my focus and my energy has been into that.

It's almost like my career has been [based on voting]. I won a dancing contest to get into wrestling. That involved fans voting. And then on Dancing with the Stars, fans were voting.

Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.

People are so obsessed with making their careers and having a big house; then you realize that kills your dreams. It even kills what makes your life because you get so busy inside.

There are many exceptions, but New York is a great place to start a career.

Don't try to start a career in LA, unless money is all you're interested in.

A university is not, thank heavens, a place for vocational instruction, it has nothing to do with training for a working life and career, it is a place for education, something quite different.

That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.