Top 100 Quotes About A Career
#1. I am grateful for the great education at a public university that Germany gave me, and that - added to a little luck - allowed me to achieve. Education is the key to a career, and its basis has to be provided by government.
Hasso Plattner
#2. Obviously as a kid, for probably anybody who chose animation voiceover as a career in their adult life, Mel Blanc was the touchstone for everybody. He kind of invented the job and was the first voice actor to get onscreen credit.
Tom Kenny
#3. Cartooning is for people who can't quite draw and can't quite write. You combine the two half-talents and come up with a career.
Matt Groening
#4. I think I'm always conscious of not letting things fit into a specific box. Being a filmmaker and trying to chart a career, you never want anyone to be able to pigeonhole you into one specific thing.
Jonathan Levine
#5. It's hard to say when my interest in writing began, or how. My mother read to my sister and me every night, and we always loved playing make-believe games. I had a well-primed imagination. I didn't start thinking about writing as a serious pursuit, a career I could have, until after college.
Sara Zarr
#6. I want to do a show about a woman who's juggling a career with a relationship.
Nancy Travis
#7. As a career, the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through hell.
Elbert Hubbard
#8. I don't make a career plan. I take things the way they come.
Marjane Satrapi
#9. Every word out of her mouth was freakin' silk, and Cole would have bet a thousand bucks, right then, that even Ben had a hard on. Forget The Fortune Bottle. This woman could have a career in food porn.
Alessandra Torre
#10. One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn't have had a career.
Bette Davis
#11. The sadness of the end of a career of an older athlete, with the betrayal of his body, is mirrored in the rest of us. Consciously or not, we know: there, soon, go I.
Ira Berkow
#12. One of the greatest threats to your husband's position of priority would be if you were to earnestly pursue a career ... If you finally reach a pinnacle of success, you would overshadow him and make him feel unimportant.
Helen Andelin
#13. We have never seen a career like George Strait's in this business, and I venture to say we never will again. He has handled things amazingly well.
Lee Ann Womack
#14. I would like to know that I was still going to be employed as a woman well into my 60s. In acting terms, a career that spans a lifetime is a very hard thing to achieve, particularly as a woman.
Romola Garai
#15. I had been a girl of whom certain things were expected, none of them too bad: a career as a nurse, for example; a sense of duty to my parents; obedience to the law and worship of convention. But in one year of being away from home, that girl had gone out of existence.
Jamaica Kincaid
#16. In the marathon obstacle course of a career, it's just good to have all the stats on paper for why you're not only a team player but also why it makes sense to support you in the projects you want to do - because you've made so much damned money for the studio.
Robert Downey Jr.
#17. We are grateful for a career that we love and whether your child is verbal or non-verbal it is our job to get them to communicate effectively in their home and community... to give them a voice in this world." - Alpin Rezvani & Debbie Shiwbalak
Alpin Rezvani
#18. I supposed if you were going to make a career of breaking laws, you might as well know them.
Richelle Mead
#20. I'm not in any rush to get anywhere. There's a pressure on actors to get somewhere before it's over. But everyone wants longevity, don't they? It's a career. Why be that flash-in-the-pan, taking every job out of worry it'll soon be over?
Ruth Negga
#21. Don't try to start a career in LA, unless money is all you're interested in.
Stephen Collins
#22. It's a lot easier to sabotage your career than to have a career to sabotage.
Win Butler
#23. I've had a career that is kind of under the radar, but it sure is varied, and I've been so blessed to be able to get paid to do something I love to do.
Bill Paxton
#24. When considering a career move, consider the most important assumptions that have to prove true and how you can swiftly and inexpensively test if they are valid. Also, remain realistic about the path ahead of you.
Clayton Christensen
#25. I feel like, to have a career as an artist, you don't need to meet the same criteria as you do to win a singing competition. They're two very different animals.
Judith Hill
#26. When they've tortured and scared you for 20 odd years, then they expect you to pick a career.
John Lennon
#27. How soon do you think it is? Time will tell me. When it's autumn, the leaves fall. When the time comes, I'll know it.
[Responding to a question about when he will start throwing his slider in his attempt to comeback from a career-ending stroke.]
J.R. Richard
#28. People have these ideas of what you're supposed to do to have a career, like play against type, or don't revisit a character. I'm just not that precious.
Jason Lewis
#29. If you can create a career built on passion, your chances for success, fulfillment, and longevity are far greater than if you take any old job simply for the paycheck.
Katherine Schwarzenegger
#30. The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.
Harry Browne
#31. I was very lucky because Tim Burton really gave me a career. I don't think Hollywood would've known what to do with me. If I hadn't done 'Beetlejuice,' I think I would've just gone back to my school.
Winona Ryder
#32. Political suicide can end a career.
John Major
#33. Individuals have habits; groups have routines," wrote the academic Geoffrey Hodgson, who spent a career examining organizational patterns. "Routines are the organizational analogue of habits.
Charles Duhigg
#34. The most important thing an institution does is not to prepare a student for a career but for a life as a citizen.
Frank N. Newman
#35. I'm my own person, and am trying to carve out a career on my own.
Emma Roberts
#36. I can't be bought. I don't need to be bought. I'm not a careerist. I don't need to have a career in politics. I'm in a very, very luxurious position, but I am in a position of strength.
Zac Goldsmith
#38. I've not made a career of being physical in my movies, but I love sports. I'm a very physical guy.
Aaron Eckhart
#39. If it's taking to long to get up the career ladder, get a career lift.
Benny Bellamacina
#40. The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.
Robert Frost
#41. I had a really great experience so far with film acting. And most experiences from most actors, I've heard, are not like this. But I want a career that has many disciplines and many options.
Thomas Horn
#42. After 'Click, Clack, Moo' was published, I was still practicing law and had no plans to make a career change.
Doreen Cronin
#43. It's hard to balwnce a career and a family. There's no way to get it right all the time
Kirsten Beyer
#44. When I chose to leave a career as a young lawyer in Washington to move to Arkansas to marry Bill and start a family, my friends asked, 'Are you out of your mind?'
Hillary Clinton
#45. When I decided to pursue a career as a Muppet Performer when I was in college, it was my hope to be able to play a wide range of Muppet characters in all areas and genres of television and film.
Stephanie D'Abruzzo
#46. It's kind of weird. You can have hits, but it's hard to sustain a career. I went through that period where I didn't have a lot of hits, although people were still buying the records.
Gary Wright
#47. You deal. You survive. You grow up and you build a career. And you remember these big/little hardships. They make you human.
Miley Cyrus
#48. I couldn't let myself depend on him getting me all hot and bothered so I could sing to the throb between my legs. I had no idea how much longer he'd drag me around by the panties, but it surely wouldn't be long enough to make a career.
C.D. Reiss
#49. I don't have a career, I don't have a family, and I don't know what to do next. I've been so determined to escape anything permanent, and now I just feel like I'm nowhere. And what if that's the permanent thing by default?
Jonathan Tropper
#50. Boxing's not a career for anyone: it doesn't last long enough to be a career.
Chris Penn
#51. The thing about home is that it's a tough place to sustain a career, just by dent of the size of the place. I had about as good a run there as anybody, but it's still a tough ask. I mean, the person I think with the best career in Australia is Ray Meagher, in 'Home and Away.'
Ben Mendelsohn
#52. I've been lucky enough to do theatre, film, and television for a career. Unless I get offered a job as an astronaut, I won't stray too far from it.
Dexter Fletcher
#53. It is no easy thing to trust in God, to walk away from a career, to give it all up not knowing if you can ever get it back or even come close. But I did it. I heeded his voice, and somehow I found peace about it.
Joanna Gaines
#54. I would suggest maintaining a life and a career outside the Industry. This is a fickle business and a lousy one to make a steady living in, so it's important to have a good family, friends, job and education to fall back on.
Fred Savage
#55. I think I've made a career out of making despicable people likable.
Walton Goggins
#56. Although attracted by the humanities, I had chosen medicine as a career, seduced by the image of the 'man in white' dispensing care and solace to the suffering. But science was lurking around the corner, in the form of an unpaid student assistantship in the laboratory of physiology.
Christian De Duve
#57. Most people like me are having a tough time. But it's fine. I don't really think about it as a career. I don't need to have a million bucks, but it keeps me in music and without a day job, so it's working out fine.
Freedy Johnston
#58. Pop stars are so busy having a career that they don't really have a lot of time for activism.
Annie Lennox
#59. It is true that getting into writing as a career can sometimes feel like you are trying to throw ten coins up in the air and have them all land on heads,
Jan Doncom
#60. Acting is still fun. It's still not even a career for me. I think the second it becomes a career is when I should stop.
Liana Liberato
#61. I've been singing my whole life, since I was a kid; but never formally as a career. I did it in plays when I was younger, and I sang all styles of music: everything from Italian opera to blues.
Brittany Murphy
#62. I think it's very empowering to be able to have a career and to be a mother. It gives you an amazing sense of self.
Georgina Chapman
#63. Because I was from the Midwest and untrained, I was completely open and ready to try anything. Many of my classmates were cynical and jaded; some already had conservatory training, and they were there simply to get that Yale stamp of approval, which they saw as a career stepping-stone.
Laila Robins
#64. I played the guitar and thought that was what I was going to do as a career. I still record music that is played in my restaurants.
Graham Elliot
#65. I hope to have a career like Jodie Foster, going from child to adult actress.
Evan Rachel Wood
#66. More than a career, I feel that I've got a function. I see things in a much more holistic way. Some people bake the bread, and some people write the songs.
Jackson Browne
#67. I've never looked at film-making as a career. I've looked on film-making as an adventure. When you come down the mountain, you get ready to climb again.
Shekhar Kapur
#68. I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: 'I served in the United States Navy.
John F. Kennedy
#69. I've had moments in my life when I've thought if I wasn't acting, if I wasn't doing what I do and I had a career in the private sector and I didn't have a family, that I do have some tendencies where I could really kind of have a monastic existence and be okay with it.
Will Ferrell
#70. Christ did not die to give people a career but to save the lost.
Reinhard Bonnke
#71. I worked in a record store, but I realised I didn't want that. I still wanted to pursue a career - or a life - that my songs provided for me.
Jamie Lawson
#73. I think many times in relationships as it escalates to marriage, what it takes to breed a marriage, is the same thing that it takes to breed a career.
Derek Luke
#74. It's my experience that people don't think of fiction writing as being as intellectually serious as other kinds of writing in academia and so without a career as a critic or essayist you can be treated as something of a spiritual medium - a fraud - for "just" writing fiction.
Alexander Chee
#75. I became interested in building furniture, because I couldn't find pieces I really loved for myself and my clients. I picked stuff up from the street, and tweaked those pieces to make them what I really wanted. It became a career!
Jeremiah Brent
#76. Before I had decided to get into politics, I was laying the groundwork to have a career in the law, but that was really to lay the foundation to teach, either at the college level or law school level after my federal clerkships.
Stephanie Herseth
#77. Um, I think every role, whether in TV or film, has a part in building a career and relationships.
Stana Katic
#78. It took me a couple years to get over the stereotype I was letting myself get caught up on, being a football player trying to start a career in music.
Sam Hunt
#79. At the end of the day, if I can say that I had a career where I was able to play all different kinds of characters and I'm known as someone who is well-respected for my approach to the craft, that would be a beautiful life.
Adepero Oduye
#80. You need a job. You need a career. You need a focus. Otherwise, you will just pick up lots of strange psychic energy because you are not focused.
Frederick Lenz
#81. At Johnny's suggestion I pursued a career in radio that eventually brought me to Los Angeles.
Randy West
#82. Someone told me there was a publisher that could find a good home for my songs, but I didn't want to give up my pursuit of a career in the business as an artist.
Michael Bolton
#83. A career is a journey. I've been fortunate enough to work and be very successful over three decades, but I haven't achieved nearly what I want to achieve yet.
Joey Lawrence
#84. My mother enjoyed acting as well with my father, who used to direct her in plays at his regiment. My sister is an excellent singer. However, it was only me who decided to pursue acting as a career.
Ajay Mehta
#85. One of my earliest memories is being backstage at 'Bran Nue Dae' in Darwin when I was about eight. It's such a fun, happy show and a real celebration of being Aboriginal ... it felt really great and achievable as a career. It all felt normal.
Shari Sebbens
#86. When people talk about careers, I always feel like the connotation of a career is that you're actually choosing things.
Matt Ross
#87. For my first gig, I got $75. I could make money being funny, so I pursued it as a career and have turned it into a lucrative business.
Tracy Morgan
#88. You have people who can't act and they get all these parts. Paris Hilton falls into her own category. She's made a career out of it.
Kate Hudson
#89. I am slightly offended by the way busy working women my age are presented in film. I'm not, like, always barking orders into my hands-free phone device and telling people constantly, "I have no time for this!" I didn't completely forget how to be nice and feminine because I have a career.
Mindy Kaling
#90. You have to have passion when you're finding a recipe for a career. If you love what you are doing, you'll never work a day in your life.
Debbi Fields
#91. I definitely caught a lot of backlash in my situation, not just from students but also from faculty, which was unfortunate, given that I was spending a lot of my time outside school working on a career, which a lot of people didn't really agree with.
Jesse McCartney
#92. I told a joke and people laughed and it was the best feeling. I knew I wanted to do this as a career. I never knew I could get such a high from telling a joke. There's something so extraordinary about having people listening to you and hanging onto your words - it's a great feeling.
Chris Tucker
#93. Writing was something I always liked, but it wasn't a career until I was laid off from my executive position in my 30s. I started a website because I was bored, unemployed and angry.
Jen Lancaster
#94. This is my dream. I ain't giving up. I see a band like the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and they've had their ups and downs, but they've continued with heart. We look up to that. I see Papa Roach being around for another 15 years. We've always wanted to be a career band.
Jacoby Shaddix
#95. I've always had a career. I have been working hard since I was 15 years old. Being someone's 'girlfriend' was never what I wanted to be famous for. What makes you 'famous' isn't always what you want to be 'labeled' as or known for.
Adrienne Bailon
#96. It's hard for anyone, no matter what their age, having a child and trying to make a career, but you survive. My mum always had the motto 'You made your bed, you lie in it' and I guess I had to take responsibility for myself.
Lisa Maffia
#97. I have experienced a tremendous amount of personal and professional growth, and I feel incredibly lucky that I'm able to make a career out of doing the things that I love.
Jose Garces
#98. It's not easy balancing a career, a family and a healthy outlook on life, which is why I don't.
Alex Bosworth
#99. Poetry is a vocation. It is not a career but a calling.
Edward Hirsch
#100. I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.
Randy Harrison
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