Quotes About Career

#1. Some people don't realize that I've had a career pre-commercials.

Carrot Top

#2. Everyone knows Jordan as a winner, and that's what I want to be known as at the end of my playing career. Someone who's won multiple NBA Championships and has made a difference in the NBA.

Mario Chalmers

#3. I think sometimes you get given a good pile of goodwill, and it's whether you use it up in the first six months or spread it out over a career.

Ricky Gervais

#4. Im now projecting my career in a totally different direction. I am going to work less-way less. And I want to work better. I want to direct again, I want to do more theatre, and I want to do exactly those movies that I want to do.

Antonio Banderas

#5. I've been singing my whole life and I've always wanted to be able to pursue a music career.

Corbin Bleu

#6. Wayne's done way more for my career than Jay-Z. Wayne is the reason I'm here.

Drake

#7. By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career.

Michael J. Fox

#8. It [winning Oscar] is the most important event in the career of an actor, an extraordinary moment, beautiful. Some people live their whole life just to win an Oscar.

Sophia Loren

#9. I think I had a kind of pause for insight in my 20s when I wasn't in a relationship and my career wasn't going the way I wanted it to go. I had time for reflection then.

Ray Liotta

#10. The business model piece is we're always talking about competing more effectively. If you're starting a company or career you don't want to compete. You want to create a monopoly. We want to invest in a company that has a good plan to create a monopoly.

Peter Thiel

#11. When I talk about music in Memphis, it's a place you can go if you are a beginning artist or anywhere in your career, and you can incubate.

Valerie June

#12. It's 2010. I'm forty-three years old. I've just turned in the final draft of what will be my third novel when I decide I want a tattoo. Maybe it's a middle-age thing. Or maybe now that my kids are nearly grown and I have a career in place, I'm finally coming into my own.

Therese Fowler

#13. The two things I've been told most often since my career took off - by taxi drivers, lifelong friends and everyone in between - have been, 'Don't ever change, Margot' and 'You can't do that anymore, Margot.'

Margot Robbie

#14. I'm three legs toward completing the career Grand Slam at 25. So, I'm feeling pretty good right now.

Rory McIlroy

#15. I'm not a movie-based person, in terms of how it affects my career, the industry. I don't care about that. I probably haven't been too smart about that.

David Caruso

#16. You will face boredom and frustration your entire career as artists. You will be very frustrated seeking a voice/style that collectors can connect with. Once you accomplish that voice/style people are clamoring for, you will become bored doing it.

Jack White

#17. Right now, we have an economy in trouble. And, someone who spent their career in the economy is more suited to help fix the economy than someone who spent his life in POLITICS and as a COMMUNITY ORGANIZER.

Mitt Romney

#18. I really want to do everything I can to try to win a game or win on a play. You get fiery; you get chippy out there, but a lot of respect, I never have anybody, like, talk trash in my career in the league, or I don't talk trash. I think guys respect the fact that I'm coming.

Jon Beason

#19. I think I can bring a lot to the triangle offense. Derek Fisher wasn't the tallest guard, but what he did is succeed and have a great career. I'm looking forward to learning from him. I've never played in the system, so I want to get there early.

Shane Larkin

#20. Claim whatever you want. Say you only want a happy family or a successful career or a big house. I say: no, that's not what you want. You'll settle for those things, but you really want a monkey that does your evil bidding. Pullman is a genius just for this.

Maureen Johnson

#21. I just love where I am right now in my career. I love country music. I don't ever feel restricted by the genre. I've been able to have a solid career that we've built one step at a time and a family. I know that I'm in a good place.

Martina Mcbride

#22. We've been so busy with these things we let ourselves think actually mattered, but they don't. There's no such thing as the right career, or morality, or destiny, or fate. There's only life. And whether you honor it or ignore it. It's ironic, but in trying to find God we've been ignoring life.

Trevor D. Richardson

#23. It's definitely team work with my fashion career. The trick is to surround yourself with the best people, those whose opinions you really trust and value.

Suki Waterhouse

#24. You want a career. You don't want to do a couple of good films and then your career is over.

Tuppence Middleton

#25. Instead of going into politics, I decided to go into comedy, which is the second most daunting career path for a woman.

Casey Wilson

#26. I've never left for New York. I've stood my ground here my whole career and hopefully will be able to until the day that I die.

Hank Williams III

#27. I got my career started late so, even though I'm getting older, I don't have as much wear and tear on my arm. I feel good. I really do.

Kurt Warner

#28. You can get famous for doing something stupid and empty, but you do something stupid and empty and you're already famous, you lose your career.

Billy Bob Thornton

#29. I used to go to the library all the time when I was kid. As a teenager, I got a book on how to write jokes at the library, and that, in turn, launched my comedy career.

Drew Carey

#30. It's no coincidence that 'Night at the Museum' completely blew the lid off my career. I finally got a handle on tone.

Shawn Levy

#31. Everyone knows that marriage is the biggest personal decision you make, but it's the biggest career decision you can make.

Sheryl Sandberg

#32. I think it's really important to remember that it's a long life, and it's a long career. In a perfect world, your career will be long. It does not begin and end with any one job. The point is to continue to have longevity in your career.

Laura Leighton

#33. Sometimes you get caught up in what's going on around you. The reality is that you are just a regular person. At some point, the career will be over, the bright lights turn off. That can come back to haunt you if you're not just a regular guy.

Brett Favre

#34. My family is my career.

James McBride

#35. As I grew older, I came to feel more responsible for any hardship or trouble my career caused my family.

Annette Funicello

#36. I give my grandfather, Dr Harold Young, a forestry Professor at the University of Maine, full credit for my career path. He pioneered the use of aerial photography in forestry in the 1950s, and we think he worked as a spy for the CIA during the Cold War, mapping Russian installations.

Sarah Parcak

#37. When my mother died, it sort of put a damper on things. My career didn't have the same significance or excitement. It had always been about doing well for my family - my brothers, sisters, father, mother. Then something interesting and important happened - I started doing things for me.

John Travolta

#38. I would love to be able to pursue music as a career but honestly, I'm just not good enough.

Shawn Ashmore

#39. At the beginning of my career, as a boy from Peru in London, suddenly discovering British culture and society, I looked so much at the work of the photographers Cecil Beaton and Norman Parkinson, which seemed to represent a wonderful vanished grandeur of my new country.

Mario Testino

#40. The career isn't guaranteed for as long as you might want to play.

Nick Ferguson

#41. Zay shrugged one shoulder. "I wouldn't say it was entirely innocent. All that warm, wet water touching us everywhere. And the soap definitely had ulterior motives."
I wrapped the towel around me, tucking it tight at the top. "That career in comedy? Walk away now, Jones.

Devon Monk

#42. The Open is the one that we all want and strive for and to be able to hold this Claret Jug is an incredible feeling. To be three legs towards the career grand slam at the age of 25 is a pretty good achievement. It's not going to sink in for a while.

Rory McIlroy

#43. I have been blessed to win a number of awards and be involved in numerous historical baseball moments over my 20-year career with the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres.

Steve Garvey

#44. None of us has control over the economy, the job market, or anything else in the global sense. But we are 100% in charge of how we respond to challenges that come our way, be it the loss of a job, a career derailment, or some other disappointment.

Edward Whitacre Jr.

#45. I was very young, and I was on vacation with my family, and there was a retrospective of old films, and one of them was 'The Phantom of the Opera' with Claude Rains that was in color. It was something very important for my career because I began to follow these stories that were morbid.

Dario Argento

#46. That is a very poor career, but only a poor career give the world the light that an imperfect, but pretty good writer wants to generate
at all costs, unfotunately.

Franz Kafka

#47. If anyone has followed my career, they know that there's been a lot of obstacles and a lot of ups and down through my career. But day in and day out, and in the square circle, I went out there and always did my best.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

#48. Every morning I wake up in a home where Mike Tyson previously laid in the bed and he earned over $500 million his career. It makes me conscious.

Curtis Jackson

#49. Confidence is a crucial building block in a successful career, and embracing it fully will take you places you never thought possible. With proper guidance and hard work, anyone can become more confident. Once you pass a certain point, you'll feel it from the inside.

Travis Bradberry

#50. I'm not lazy, but I don't have that spur on my ass that most people have, like, "Oh, god. I have to get something out or else my career will be over!" I don't really care if my career is over.

Fiona Apple

#51. When I was coming up in the '80s television, if you were on television that meant either you were a young actor just coming up like I was, or you were an older actor whose career was over and you had to go on television.

Billy Bob Thornton

#52. I find awards frivolous. When I began my career, I was told that I deserved an award for a certain performance, but then I couldn't turn up on the day of the show. Then I was told that the award went to someone else. That's when I realised the truth behind it all.

Emraan Hashmi

#53. Manchester United? That's not an option. I am staying at Bayern Munich. Period. I had a great time under Van Gaal at Bayern, he has been very important for my career but I am very happy at my current club.

Arjen Robben

#54. I want to do an action movie so badly, it just has to happen at some point in my career. I have to do an action movie. Like, I want to do the Angelina Jolie thing - the guns and the blowing things up.

Mark Indelicato

#55. Mitch Glazer and I went to high school together, and his mother was my English teacher for two years. She was my favorite teacher, and I followed Mitch's career as a journalist, so we've kind of kept in touch over the years.

Mickey Rourke

#56. he believes it is, overall, a wiser approach to life's problems. After all, how can you pick up something new - a new career, a new relationship, a new outlook on life - without first letting go of the old? It's like trying to pick up a bag of groceries when your hands are already full.

Eric Weiner

#57. In Paris, I met a young American person who immediately became the primary inspiration which awakened my vision and the leading influence that had directed my forces. Throughout my career as an artist, I refer to this person by the word 'Woman.'

Gaston Lachaise

#58. If you look at my career over the past twenty years, I've always been trying to look around corners for low-income communities of color.

Van Jones

#59. To forging her career. She'd just landed a part in an

J.D. Robb

#60. I don't record for my own glory.I mean, of course part of it is for career advancement, but more importantly, I want some of that repertoire - as much of it as possible - to remain and enter pianists' consciousness and, hopefully, into the standard repertoire.

Marc-Andre Hamelin

#61. When I look back at this career I've had, I don't know where it goes from here, but certainly any time I can make a movie that's different, that explores something that's not a retread of something else, I'm interested in it.

Don Coscarelli

#62. 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

#63. I think no athlete wants to end his career on an injury.

Jayson Williams

#64. Success is not defined by status, money, education, career or another person but rather by the level of peace that I have within myself.

Liza Lugo

#65. In every career, you are balancing or negotiating tricky waters. But, I think that's been something nice that comedy has been able to give me a little bit more. I have the ability to laugh at myself and hopefully not take all of this whole world too seriously.

Anna Faris

#66. Acting very quickly became a dream of mine, but the acting game privileges youth. It takes a while to build credits and, because of that, it's not the kind of career you can jump into in your 40s or 50s. The ship sets sail by then.

Pete Ploszek

#67. Physical courage to a person of honour is easier and less risky than acts that could subject him to embarrassment or humiliation or a diminished career or reputation. These things he must live with. To die for honor is an easier thought to bear.

Michael Josephson

#68. Making music is a wonderful way to spend your life, but do it for the love before a career. Enjoy it.

Nigel Godrich

#69. I've had young women come to me and say that before they watched 'Voyager' it didn't really occur to them that they could be successful in a higher position in the field of science; girls going to MIT, girls pursuing astrophysics with a view to a career in NASA.

Kate Mulgrew

#70. At the end of the day, TV is my first love. I started off my career from the small screen.

Malaika Arora Khan

#71. An important factor to note is that it's rare for anyone to sell a first novel written before they turned 30-35; long-format fiction tends to require a bunch of experience of human life that takes time to acquire. So your average mid-career novelist is in their forties to fifties!

Charles Stross

#72. It is a common enough mid-career urge: having taken care of life's immediate needs, some of us yearn to chase villains, right wrongs, fight on the side of the angels.

Tim Wu

#73. If we are interested in a writing life - as opposed to a writing career - then we are in it for the process and not the product - for the body of work and not for the quick hit of one well-realised piece.

Julia Cameron

#74. Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.

Sam Ewing

#75. When I get into relationships, I'm an all-or-nothing person. I just completely give in to the person. It becomes my first priority in life; family, friends and career follow.

Sonam Kapoor

#76. I love acting. Acting is a true love of mine, acting and math. Although they are both creative, they use very different sides of your brain. And I love both. Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.

Danica McKellar

#77. I've given up my living room, guest room, job, career, heterosexuality and my stance on no pets in the house, but I'm not giving up my room. I'm drawing a line.

Dani Alexander

#78. I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach the end of your life, I put a new emphasis on things I believe count more. These things include: family, friends, being part of a community, and appreciating the little joys of the average day.

Mitch Albom

#79. Well, I liked it - that was the main thing. I liked it, but I didn't think of it in terms of a career. I didn't really know; I didn't really think about it. One thing just led to another until finally I quit my job as a salesman and found myself working as a photographer.

Herb Ritts

#80. As a species, we tend to lie quite a bit - to ourselves and to each other. It's a primate thing. So, a reason to go into a career in science and technology, or to learn more about these subjects, is to become a more powerful person.

Ann Druyan

#81. But the steep drop in violent crime presented police with a problem. If making arrests is the only way to advance in your career, but crime is dropping, what do you do? Furthermore, what to do if the only way to make a living wage is to rack up as much overtime as possible?

Matt Taibbi

#82. It's been a long blessed career. I've been riddled with injuries the past two and a half years and haven't been able to quite compete as I'm accustomed to. At this point, I just really want to enjoy it and put it all on the line when I'm out there.

Terrence Trammell

#83. I can't really speak for the guys, but for me, I think I want a build a longer-term career and I feel like we've been really fortunate to have some big success with a few things, but I want smaller success with more things.

Isaac Slade

#84. As actors, you like to think about the luxury of having choices in your career, but for the most part you kind of take whatever comes your way and hope that you carved out something that you're proud of in the end.

Marin Ireland

#85. I drank beer, and I had a career year.

David Wells

#86. I dropped off my kids from 10 to 2, went to the library, and just wrote. This is my second career - I'm 41 - and I'm a terrible speller.

Isabel Gillies

#87. There's a beauty of show business. It's the only business you can have a career in when you're dead.

Tom Waits

#88. There was a strong focus on performance and respect for people. And one of the points that my father always made was that with all the challenges and obstacles and barriers, the one thing you can control is your performance. And that is one thing I have tried to adhere to throughout my career.

Kenneth Chenault

#89. You can be a good mom and still work out, get your rest, have a career - or not. My mother encouraged me to find that balance.

Michelle Obama

#90. life is too short to be stuck in a job you hate. Choose a career that makes you excited to wake up in the morning, energized through the day, and content when you fall asleep at night.

Joshua Dorkin

#91. If you are succesfull for 20 years, you can't expect to stay on the same level all through that period. A career has its ups and downs and in-betweens.

Donnie Wahlberg

#92. Clearly Mr. Drkh has had a long career of being the weirdest person in any given room, but he's about to go down in flames.

Neal Stephenson

#93. I had a hard time publishing my books in the beginning of my career, because editors were afraid what people would think of THEM, personally, if their name was associated with me.

Susie Bright

#94. If I were still stupider than I am, I should think myself at the apex of my career; yet I know how much I still lack, to reach perfection; I see it the more clearly now that I live only among first-rank artists and know what each one of them lacks.

Frederic Chopin

#95. In the hands of a determined Secretary, the Foreign Service can be a splendid instrument, staffed by knowledgeable, discreet, and energetic individuals. They do require constant vigilance lest the convictions that led them into a penurious career tempt them to preempt decision-making.

Henry A. Kissinger

#96. She was a born liar, Hope thought. It was incredible. She should skip the modeling career and go straight to politics. "I

Elin Hilderbrand

#97. I had a dream about you. I was sitting on your couch, relating my succession of ideas on subconscious influence. I asked you what they meant, and you told me that free associations were a bad way to advance my political career.

Bauvard

#98. He didn't just dig me; he dug me the MOST. Nothing can compare to hearing something like that from a seventeen-year-old kid who looks like he might be fully awake for the first time in his academic career.

Stephen King

#99. It's important to have the right agent - people that are working hard for you. But an actor needs to be in control of their career no matter how good the representation is.

Joel McHale

#100. This was not the career she'd dreamed of as an ambitious seventeen-year-old, but now it was hard to remember ever feeling innocent and audacious enough to dream of a certain type of life, as if you got to choose how things turned out.

Liane Moriarty