Career Transition Quotes

#1. In the 1970s, 3 percent of retiring members became lobbyists. Thirty years later, that number has increased by an order of magnitude. Between 1998 and 2004, more than 50 percent of senators and 42 percent of House members made that career transition.

Lawrence Lessig

#2. I was really going through a transition in my life. I was tired of feeling victimized by my career.

Sandra Bernhard

#3. In a world like this one, only the random makes sense.

Libba Bray

#4. Ava turned to the side, staring out into the dark. In profile, her face was suddenly tired and sad, and Cole felt the urge to wrap himself around her. To protect her from whatever was dragging her down.

Danika Stone

#5. My buddy David Wells is a big motorcycle guy, so when I go visit him in San Diego, he takes me out on his bike. He's got some antique Indians. I never really rode during my career, because I was afraid I'd fall off and ruin my career.

David Cone

#6. I've been a fashion model for 15 years and designing is just an extension of my career. I still plan on modeling lingerie, but at the same time this is a business transition that I plan to have around for a long time.

Alessandra Ambrosio

#7. Instead of deciding on a class and then figuring out its responsibilities, you are now deciding on a message and figuring out where to send it. This transition from class-based design to message-based design is a turning point in your design career.

Sandi Metz

#8. Most child actors go through that. Unless you can transition into an adult star, your career is over.

Morgan Brittany

#9. People want more and more leisure time, which means the freedom to do what they want to do, not what they have to do, and as we get richer and richer, more and more people will be able to afford that.

Robert Fogel

#10. There are enough real enemies and threats in the world without having to invent imaginary ones.

Christina Engela

#11. In Zen, and in other forms of self discovery, we do have a transference that occurs where psychically, information, blocks of attention, are transferred to the student.

Frederick Lenz

#12. How horrible to think what we may wish for, lay in anguish for, may be within our reach but we are unable to see them.

D. Morgenstern

#13. He was hard lines, chiseled flesh, bronzed skin. I was a marshmallow melting in a cup of cocoa.

T.J. Klune

#14. I want to be remembered as an actor who put in some good work in the beginning of his career, even better work at the end of his career and slowly, successfully made the transition into writing and directing.

Jonathan Brandis

#15. I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the boys, and being a writer, I world give up being a writer without a blink.

Robert B. Parker

#16. Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.

Barack Obama

#17. How we respond to something is just as important - if not more important - than our initial reaction.

Michael Thomas Sunnarborg

#18. Don't sweat it if you are stuck in the corporate job right now. But begin to plan ahead. I know from much personal experience that it takes 1-3 years to transition from total scratch to making a living from home in any career you want.

James Altucher

#19. Where he could think with pleasure of his own importance, and,

Jane Austen