Quotes About Career Paths

#1. Constant rejection. No security. Career paths being dictated by freelance reviewers. And of course, the terror of the writing desk, of the blank page. Why is it so hard for our non-writer friends to understand this - that it's a job?

Darin Strauss

#2. An MBA is a great degree for career paths like investment banking, finance, consulting, and large companies. An MBA is not necessarily the right path for starting a tech company. You should be building a prototype, not getting an MBA in that case.

Guy Kawasaki

#3. I remember all the kids picking their chosen career paths and I was thinking, If I'm an actor I can be an astronaut and a policeman and a firefighter. At the time I was so young that I actually thought actors were all of those things.

Chris Lowell

#4. Literature offers the thrill of minds of great clarity wrestling with the endless problems and delights of being human. To engage with them is to engage with oneself, and the lasting rewards are not confined to specific career paths.

Jonathan Stroud

#5. I've broken a cardinal rule of art, music, and career paths: actors are supposed to act, and musicians are supposed to music. That's how it works. You don't buy fish from a dentist, or ask a plumber for financial advice, so why listen to an actor's music?

Hugh Jackman

#6. Trust me, ... I know where my heart is and my heart's right here. I'm going to keep doing everything because I love to do it, but I will never sacrifice my time between the ropes. That's no shot to anybody. Everybody's got different career paths. This is mine.

John Cena

#7. A lot of young girls have looked to their career paths and have said they'd like to be chief. There's been a change in the limits people see.

Wilma Mankiller

#8. Everything happens at the time it needs to happen. I do not push destiny. Boxers take different paths in their career and those roads don't always come together.

Miguel Cotto

#9. I guided my heap into the heart of Capitol Hill wondering for the first time in fourteen years what I could do to get money besides drive cabs or rob banks. Both occupations had their pros and cons. For instance, bank robbery isn't quite as dangerous as cab driving, but it pays better.

Gary Reilly

#10. Philanthropy should be voluntary.

Bill Gates

#11. I am going to spend my time today just thanking the people that played a role in my career, because I truly do believe that I was blessed by a lot of people that paths crossed mine as I went down the road in my career.

Nolan Ryan

#12. Through career fumbles and life changes, she supported me. Through shattered dreams and hopes almost-realized, she supported me too.

Shannon Celebi

#13. If we look at where relations between the Soviet Union and Germany were in 1945 and where we stand now, then we have achieved so much.

Angela Merkel

#14. I'm more than happy to fuck off, but if it makes a difference, I wasn't going to talk about dicks. I'm far more interested to hear more about your poor neglected vagina. How's she been? We haven't had a face-to-face in a while.

Leisa Rayven

#15. Fall makes me think that if I fail horribly at this art thing, and then fail horribly with this writing thing, I'll go run a pumpkin patch.

Tyler Hojberg

#16. Still, my argument was that if she was going to work for the next thirty years, what difference does going "back" four years really make? If the other path made her happier and offered her a chance to learn new skills, that meant she was actually moving forward.

Sheryl Sandberg

#17. Good mentors are essential for a successful career.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#18. I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away.

Mark Haddon

#19. One of the writers I most admire is Hilary Mantel because in the middle of her career, she just changed paths entirely and became just a totally different novelist.

Hanya Yanagihara

#20. I think maybe one reason why ventriloquists are looked down on is because it's very difficult to be funny. I think what happens is that people get a dummy, they learn the technique of ventriloquism, they memorize the script, they think they're in show business.

Jeff Dunham

#21. Science, I had come to learn, is as political, competitive, and fierce a career as you can find, full of the temptation to find easy paths

Paul Kalanithi

#22. Love flourishes in expectation. Expectation strolls through the spacious fields of Time towards Opportunity.

Umberto Eco

#23. And I used to assemble the family to hear because I thought that they were so good that even from the point of view of enjoyment people shouldn't miss them, and I got every word of his that I could, and I could see by hard argument there was only the one way for it.

Ruth Pitter

#24. Let us understand Darwinism so we can walk in the opposite direction when it comes to setting up society.

Richard Dawkins

#25. There are direct paths to a successful career. But there are plenty of indirect paths, too.

Clayton M Christensen

#26. It's a jungle gym, not a ladder.

Sheryl Sandberg