Top 93 Quotes About Career Choice
#1. Most professional women I know - myself included - long since gave up looking for a rulebook or a roadmap; we make it up as we go along. Every day presents a new choice, a new challenge, which makes long-term career planning seem like an especially abstract exercise.
Nancy Gibbs
#2. I had really great parents who always gave me lots of opportunity for choice, but I didn't always realize how rare that was for a girl for them to say, 'You can be a mom or have a career or do both or do something we haven't thought of yet.'
Ally Condie
#4. I couldn't concentrate on music. So I made the choice to give up my career as a musician in the frontline to deal with the business.
Robert Fripp
#5. I want to have the career that is my choice - what interests me, what doesn't. I feel more and more strongly about that.
Lindsay Duncan
#6. I saw that I could not afford the luxury of just being an actress. So I made a choice to use my career as a platform to address the issues of the race I was born into.
Cicely Tyson
#7. Many kids turn to selling drugs. It's not a good career choice, but they see it as a way to get money.
Richard Harris
#8. In life, most short cuts end up taking longer than taking the longer route.
Suzy Kassem
#9. I could do John Wayne, Jack Benny, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and entertain my friends. But I never seriously considered it as a career choice.
Phil Hartman
#10. I didn't have any doubts about my choice of career, but I had constant doubts about my ability, yes.
Suzanne Farrell
#11. That's literally been the story of my career. I'm always the second choice. And you know what? I'm more than happy to be that person.
Bianca Kajlich
#12. When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family. My father had always identified himself as a writer to my mother when they met. When they met, he was writing this great novel, there was no doubt about it.
Nick Flynn
#13. I've made a career writing about fictitious anti-heroes. To create these worlds, I've spent a lot of time with active members on both sides of the law. And if I had to pick the most interesting of the two, the choice is obvious - we all love the guys in black.
Kurt Sutter
#14. My whole family was very supportive of my choice in a career. I started playing music when I was about 6 years old.
Leland Sklar
#15. After all, I was choosing to walk in the front door of Morgan Stanley every day. I didn't have to. I could make a different choice. I had to stop throwing away my power by focusing on what was wrong and focus on ways, to use a baseball term, "to knock the cover off the ball.
Carla Harris
#16. MCJOB: A low-pay, low-prestige, low-dignity, no-future job in the service sector. Frequently considered a satisfying career choice for people who have never held one.
Douglas Coupland
#17. My advice is to make acting your second career choice.
Amber Tamblyn
#18. I saw Lotus F1 racing as the best choice for me to progress my career, after considering several other options that were available to me.
Heikki Kovalainen
#19. I really (became) very independent. I was start(ed) to write one-woman shows and mak(e) films and to me I think I really felt like my choice (was) more important than any kind of career goal.
Margaret Cho
#21. I couldn't get the laughter out of my head. It wasn't career. It wasn't even a choice. It was a calling.
Carol Burnett
#22. The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.
Taylor Swift
#23. If in life you choose something that is your second choice, whether it be clothes, a relationship, or a career, then don't choose it. Wait until you can have your first choice. Never settle for second best.
Steven Aitchison
#24. Even with men doing more parenting than before, the majority of women are still left facing the well-rehearsed motherhood-versus-career dichotomy. But it's not a dichotomy; its a socially organized choice masquerading as a natural one.
Meghan Daum
#25. It's not always so great to be objectified, but I don't feel I have much of a choice right now. I'm young in my career. I know I have to strike when the iron is hot.
Jessica Alba
#26. I'd gone to Wellesley College, an amazing women's college where the students were encouraged to follow our dreams. However, after I graduated and had a historical romance published, more than a few people indicated that, in some way, my career choice was a 'waste' of so much education.
Lisa Kleypas
#28. My advice for achieving success is to make a career choice that reflects your passion. Then work your craft a little bit each day-even if someone's not paying you to do It. Try to balance your social life with your educational (or professional) life, and have patience.
Giancarlo Esposito
#29. I try to be eclectic in my choice of films. If I've done anything that's intentional in my career, it's to try to do as many different types of characters and as many different types of genres of movies that I can.
Dennis Quaid
#30. If you're going to be an artist, you have to create music that moves you, and to not try to fit in so much with what's happening around you. It's a career choice.
Nikka Costa
#31. When I decided to take on acting as a career and a profession, I didn't know much about it. I knew that I was passionate about it. There was nothing else I could think of that I wanted to do and that's when I knew it was the right choice. It was also one of the scariest moments of my life.
Drew Waters
#32. My reasons for becoming a chef are somewhat of a cliche. I always loved to eat but it was watching my parents cook that really served as the impetus for my career choice.
Alexandra Guarnaschelli
#33. I suppose 'Worried About the Boy' was a brave choice, but only in the sense that if I didn't get it right, my career would be over before it had begun.
Douglas Booth
#34. Modeling was never anything that was a career choice. I did catalog work in Toronto to make money so that I could go to school.
Malin Akerman
#35. 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 and things are really working out for me right now, but I won't pretend that there isn't a part of me that always secretly wanted to be a boxer.
Holt McCallany
#36. Whether it's choosing a career or deciding what charity to get involved with, the choice should come from your heart. Ultimately you are the one who has to get up every morning and enjoy what you are doing, so make sure it matters to you.
Dave Thomas
#37. Sometimes you just need some reassurance about your Choice before you take any decision.
Auliq Ice
#38. Each job requires a conscious choice of career path, and a different plan of development.
Auliq Ice
#39. I love my job and the excitement and challenges it offers. But my job does not define me. If this job ended tomorrow I'd find another way to find that glorious feeling of accomplishment. No employer or career choice "made" me. I made me...
Megyn Kelly
#40. So there's a choice that I made to tell stories that are still psychological melodramas about domestic issues. The challenge is to figure out how to make 10 films a career as a filmmaker, and that's a really challenging thing.
Ira Sachs
#41. In my whole career, in fact, I can remember only two first nights when a show was at its peak on the first night. And I just wish we could devise a system where critics came not on a single evening but were given a choice of performances to attend.
Richard McCabe
#42. Maybe I wanted children, maybe I didn't, but I wanted the decision to be a choice, not a mandate. Last time I checked, childlessness was only supposed to be a condition of career advancement for nuns.
Peggy Orenstein
#43. At the very beginning of my career, when I opened my business in Italy, I was also a ranked tennis player. I had won many tournaments. To be an athlete was my first choice. Second choice: designer. However! There was more money in being a designer at that time.
Oleg Cassini
#44. Most people who graduate from college think they have to make a perfect choice. Is it Goldman Sachs? Is it Google? Is it Apple? They think that their first job is going to determine their career, if not their life.
Guy Kawasaki
#45. After a life deprived of everything from romantic love to the choice of when to wake up in the morning, after 29 years without the ability to have a career or even to be alone at toilet, the Bijani sisters are not symbols but women who have had to live a shared life of constant, quotidian sacrifice.
Darin Strauss
#46. Wished she didn't spend so much time worrying about the end of it all, but she couldn't help it. Being at the top of your career was like being at the top of a Ferris wheel: you knew that you had to keep moving, and you knew which way you were going. You had no choice.
Nick Hornby
#47. The exorcist had a slightly Australian tinge to his voice, and the laid-back, whatever-comes-next attitude of a man who had suddenly realised two degrees short of a sunstroke that exorcism was the perfect career choice he'd never been offered in school.
Kate Griffin
#48. I've done a lot of independent travelling, which hasn't been the best career choice, but it's been a really great life choice.
Nikki Reed
#49. Writing isn't a career choice. It's self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.
Alain De Botton
#50. In the reality - TV era, unstable behavior become a valid career choice.
James Poniewozik
#51. Most saints live to regret their career choice.
Bob Stokes
#52. You go through stages in your career that you feel very good about yourself. Then you feel awful, like, 'Why didn't I choose something else?' But overall I'm pretty satisfied that I made the right choice when I decided to be an actor.
Gene Hackman
#53. I think the music business is becoming more difficult. It's really taken a big hit with piracy, so it's a lot more difficult. I mean, it was kind of an impractical career choice when I did it 25 years ago, but nowadays it's truly reckless.
Cliff Martinez
#54. Punk rock wasn't a career choice. It was a hobby that we did for fun. We never thought we'd get as big as our idols in T.S.O.L. or certainly not the Ramones.
Dexter Holland
#55. Every time you have to make a choice about anything, think "Does this go toward or away from what I want?" Always choose what goes toward what you want.
Barbara Sher
#56. I've had too lengthy a career and coached too many players to make a choice.
Chuck Daly
#57. Friendship is not by force but by choice.
You can never please everybody, he who aims to please everybody will end up pleasing nobody.
Stella Oladiran
#58. Advertising. I'd definitely like to try that. In fact, it was a genuine second choice career-wise. I'd be good at selling stuff - I've got the gift of the gab.
Tony Blackburn
#59. Not a great deal is known about the factors in childhood that doubtless underlie a person's choice of career - I'm talking now about a career to which one is passionately committed, in contradistinction to a career chosen merely as a means of earning a living.
Nathaniel Branden
#60. Well, my career choice made a difference because I never would have met my wife, Jenny. I met her through comedian Buddy Hackett. He set us up on a blind date and then we got married.
Bob Newhart
#61. My entire career is contemporary based, not by choice, but just by character. So, all the movies I've done, except for one in 40 years, are contemporary. But I never did an effects movie. So, I'm also a producer and I was really curious about how this whole thing went together.
Michael Douglas
#62. The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.
Harry Browne
#63. If you have a choice of selling shoes to ladies or giving birth to a flaming porcupine ... look into that second, less painful career.
Richard Jeni
#64. I think I made the wrong career choice
Tony Blair
#65. You can't possibly know that you're going to be a writer!" Miss Frost said. "It's not a career choice.
John Irving
#66. As a kid, I liked to write, but I didn't think that was a viable career choice. My dream, actually, was to be a white girl rapper and join Salt-N-Pepa - which obviously was a much more viable career choice.
Karen Abbott
#67. It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginning. I had to be an actress ... period.
Christine Lahti
#68. I hate to sound like a romantic adolescent, but I believe artists don't generally see art as a career choice; they simply can't overcome their desire to make art, and will live on little income for as long as they have to, before they start to sell their work - or give up and get a paying job.
Charles Saatchi
#69. If you don't have the right support form the right people you are always going to be the best choice and not the preferred choice.
Richmond Akhigbe
#70. Joy in your Job is possible to the extent you're willing to choose it.
Todd Stocker
#71. When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.
Al Yankovic
#72. Oh?" Tom's eyebrows shot up high. "What an interesting career choice. And may I ask what division you were in?
Marie Astor
#73. The myth is that women and their families don't have to make trade-offs to have an 'extreme career'; they absolutely do. How you prioritize your life and career is your choice. Once you make a decision, stick to it; don't always second-guess yourself.
Angela Braly
#74. There's a lot of people that I would love to work with. There's a lot of different kinds of parts I wanna play. As your career progresses, you hope that you get some more opportunity or some more choice.
Paul Dano
#75. Over the past decades, students who have blindly followed their passion, without rational analysis of whether their choice of career truly was wise, have been more unhappy with their job choices than those who coupled passion with rationality.
Barbara Oakley
#76. Having it all means different things to different people. I think it's an individual choice. Nothing is perfect. Everyone makes sacrifices. For me, it's worked out well. I have children. I have a very interesting career. But it's not for everybody.
Renee James
#77. Being funny wasn't a career choice growing up, it was my way out of situations; a way to survive another day.
Tracy Morgan
#78. Meanwhile, our young men and women whose economic circumstances make military service a viable career choice are dying bravely in a war with no end in sight.
Charles B. Rangel
#79. Success is a matter of choice, not chance ~ Deepak Mehra
Deepak Mehra
#80. If I had a choice as to my perfect career, I would make a couple of films a year and then concentrate on natural history.
Dominic Monaghan
#81. Maybe if I found something I was really passionate about, which is entirely possible, I would make another documentary, but it's not a good career choice for anybody. I don't recommend it.
Terry Zwigoff
#82. If you want to routinely break the law and get away with it, then a police officer would be a great career choice for you.
Steven Magee
#83. My career choice was to be a mother.
Ann Romney
#84. Obviously, I have been a pro-choice candidate for my entire political career, and obviously there is controversy always surrounding this issue.
Claire McCaskill
#85. Choosing the right career is the most difficult task for a person who is multi-talented and versatile. Because its hard to decide what field to go into, when you are good at too many things.
Saad Salman
#86. It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.
Camille Paglia
#87. People always ask me about career choices, though it rarely ever seems like any kind of choice. It's just like, I really want to do something, this is what I can do, and that's it. I'm lucky to be doing this at all.
Emile Hirsch
#88. There's not really a choice about, am I going to pursue a typical career? Because I'm not the typical standard, so that's not even an option.
America Ferrera
#89. The money we spend on education should follow the choice of the parents, not the choice of educrats, bureaucrats, politicians, who, unfortunately, have been manipulating this process in their own career interests, not in the interests of our young people.
Alan Keyes
#90. I'm not particularly a career-oriented guy. I'm lucky. I can make really interesting films much of the time with interesting people yet be anonymous, have a private life. But, I'd like to have the choice of the better roles.
Aidan Quinn
#91. I couldn't find my cup of tea.
So probably, I've been simply taking a sip from everyone else's cup. May be it shouldn't matter as long as there is tea to drink. Or should it?
Sanhita Baruah
#92. My agents do not like my choice to work only in New York and Israel - it's not a good career move.
Mili Avital
#93. Faith is a choice like any other. If you're picking a career or a husband - or deciding whether to have a baby - there are feelings and reasons pro and con out the wazoo. But thinking it through is - at the final hour - horse dookey. You can only try out.
Mary Karr
