Quotes About Chosen Career

#1. During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.

Al Franken

#2. I was very blessed in always knowing what I wanted to do, and by the grace of God I've been able to succeed in my chosen career.

Nichelle Nichols

#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. No one should ever despair because the entrance to his or her chosen career path is clogged. There is an ancient saying: The persistent drip wears through stone.

Kentetsu Takamori

#5. Then I should have chosen a career for myself, I should have been a sluggard and a glutton, not a simple one, but for instance, one with sympathies for everything sublime and beautiful.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#6. Having a more experienced and successful counselor guiding someone in a chosen profession is wise decision and good career move.

Jose A. Aviles

#7. It seemed like a wonderful honor to have the Film Society of Lincoln Center screen 'The Films of Raquel Welch.' It shows a lot of a variety in what they've chosen; it kind of runs the gamut of my film career.

Raquel Welch

#8. 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

#9. Even though he's asleep, he somehow still looks as if he's in a world of pain.

Colleen Hoover

#10. I never knew much about business. But I've been made happy. The TV and commercials have been very fortunate for me and my career. And Atlantic Records has always been wonderful to me. I don't think I could have chosen a better record company.

Percy Sledge

#11. If I've done anything intentional about my career, is that I really have not - I've chosen to try to do as many different types of things as possible. That's really what I like to do.

Dennis Quaid

#12. I have been the artist with the longest career, and I am so proud and honored to be chosen from heaven to be invincible.

Michael Jackson

#13. I obviously enjoy being wealthy. It's enabled me to have a career that I've chosen and not one that I've been forced into.

Jamie Johnson

#14. I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

Richard M. Nixon

#15. But [Stanley Wade] instead removed his glasses and wiped his eyes. They were moist not from fear but from the harsh reality of being confronted by one of his victims. How many others were out there? Why had he chosen to spend his career screwing these people?

~from "Michael's Room"~

John Grisham

#16. Now that I'm more mature, in a funny way, I can even appreciate that I've bad to become more aware of my body. Since I've chosen acting as my career, I have to keep my weight down anyway-I've been used to it for years, so it's no problem. And there's nothing I can't do.

Dana Hill

#17. Rosie: Marrying someone you don't love is not right.

Cecelia Ahern

#18. Love is like encountering a forest and having to chop down every tree but one. Oh, and you have to chop down each tree by hugging it until it falls.

Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#19. I absolutely advocate for comprehensive immigration reform.

Susana Martinez

#20. 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

#21. Becoming a writer is a polite way of saying you've chosen alcoholism as a career.

Joe Ducie

#22. People say they love the characters I've chosen in my career. But I didn't choose anything. I just happened to be working and these were offered to me.

Michael K. Williams

#23. Your mother was a goatherder. (Savitar)
It's an honorable profession. (Takeshi)
Yeah, for a goat. (Savitar)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#24. It is all too easy as an artist to allow the shape of our career to be dictated to us by others. We can so easily wait to be chosen. Such passivity invites despair. To remain healthy and vital, artists must stay proactive in their own behalf.

Julia Cameron

#25. Not so much a trickle down as a dragging-along.

Joel Mokyr

#26. As much as it's nice to step into that massive world of Hollywood and be a big, famous actor, I prefer the career of actors that have really chosen smartly and done really amazing performances. Maybe they're not as known, but their careers are a bit more interesting.

Idris Elba

#27. I've grown up with a piano in the house, and that's where I started to be able to learn things by ear. Guitar kind of happened, and I was using it just for writing at first. Then, I was writing so much that I began to realise that I knew how to play, and that's when I started getting nerdy about it.

Gabrielle Aplin

#28. I had no luck when I started out as a model. I keep telling people that it's the only career in the world that you can't choose for yourself - you have to be chosen.

Ines De La Fressange

#29. My first murder was thrilling because I had embarked on the career I had chosen for myself, the career of murder.

John Christie

#30. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.

Daniel J. Boorstin

#31. I think I've had a fairly meandering career. Because I did start so young, I think that I've always chosen my parts based on what's interesting to me and what I think would be challenging or fun, or someone I've always wanted to work with or a place I've always wanted to work in or a topic.

Christina Ricci

#32. Becoming a writer is not a 'career decision' like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don't choose it so much as get chosen, and once you accept the fact that you're not fit for anything else, you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days.

Paul Auster

#33. I have always chosen roles that I believed in - not ones that I thought might further my career.

Adrian Grenier

#34. If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Jane Fonda