Top 100 Quotes About Job Career
#1. 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
#2. I've always known from the beginning of my acting career that you only get an acting job if you've got something to learn about it. If you don't do it well, you'll be condemned to doing the same role over and over and over again. If you do it mediocre, you'll have to do it again.
Lance Henriksen
#3. I was raised to be self-conscious about weight. Then as I got older and started doing television, it became a career issue, like, 'You have to lose weight or you'll lose that job.'
Margaret Cho
#4. I think America did a great job. I think Carrie Underwood fits the bill of American Idol. She's a wonderful girl, and she's gonna have a great career.
Bo Bice
#5. In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job; if she is a woman, we say she is a freak.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#6. Everything I've done in my career is a result of growing up in rural Oklahoma, because if I hadn't had the training from Mama and Daddy to work hard, to do what I'm told, to take directions, to mind and to do a good job at anything I set out to do, then I wouldn't be where I am today.
Reba McEntire
#7. My definition of a green-collar job is this: a family-supporting, career-track job that directly contributes to preserving or enhancing environmental quality.
Van Jones
#8. I'm an expert in baseball and I don't even have a job. I'm an expert, more so than a lot of people out there. It should be my career until I'm dead. I should be one of the instructors. I think I've earned it.
Barry Bonds
#9. Imagine choosing a job not on money or even on career advancement, but as part of a life worth living.
Dale Dauten
#10. Ingredients to success: know what you do well, know what to do well, and know someone who's swell.
Criss Jami
#11. I think back on that day when 16-year-old me scribbled on some silly piece of paper for some long-forgotten high school career-day project that my dream job was 'romance novelist.'
Sarah MacLean
#12. If you asked my dad about selecting any kind of professional career, he'd tell you, "Don't make a date with a heart attack." Meaning: You've got to pace yourself and not forget to slow down. No job is forever. So relax and have some fun.
Chuck Palahniuk
#13. If you're going to write a book that might, in its very best accidental career, sell 30,000 copies, you've got to have a day job.
Padgett Powell
#14. Happiness does not come from a job. It comes from knowing what you truly value, and behaving in a way that's consistent with those beliefs.
Mike Rowe
#15. Never agree to a job interview in which the interviewer has seen you naked.
Susan Mallery
#16. I eventually got a job with a television company, started to see how exciting journalism could be as a career, and decided that was what I wanted to do.
Anne Robinson
#17. I am most interested in the outcomes at schools and school districts and ensuring that all kids are prepared for college and a career in the 21st-century job market.
Michael Bennet
#18. Cat, I'll let you in on a little secret. We don't all love our jobs every day. And doing something you have passion for doesn't make the work part of it any easier ... It just makes you less likely to quit.
Kate Jacobs
#19. I'm not comfortable with the idea of my sex appeal, but I know in my job I have to use it. I wish I could say I got to this point in my career based on my talent, but I don't think that's true.
Matthew Morrison
#20. My mother was a stay-at-home mom until I was about 11, when she got a job - and it was like a light came on inside her. It's not wrong to be passionate about your career. When you love what you do, you bring that stimulation back to your family.
Allison Pearson
#21. After college I got a job and started working. This new career had absolutely nothing to do with my degree.
Jason Najum
#22. I realize that acting is my job, and I have a life outside of my career to help keep me grounded. It is great to have a job you love!
Olivia Stuck
#23. Thinking about work as a day job has made a big difference in the way I approach what I do. It also helped me not to confuse who I am with what I do.
Bob Goff
#24. A C.E.O.'s job is leadership, problem solving, and team building. I've done that my whole career.
Bruce Rauner
#25. In my career, there have been roles I haven't taken because someone involved with the project gave me a bad vibe. I don't care how much money is on the table: No job is worth feeling uneasy every day.
Gabrielle Union
#26. Education opens the door to everything in terms of having a career and an impact on society and not being a slave to your job, really.
Naomie Harris
#27. In your career, even more than for a brand, being safe is risky. The path to lifetime job security is to be remarkable.
Seth Godin
#29. Don't sweat it if you are stuck in the corporate job right now. But begin to plan ahead. I know from much personal experience that it takes 1-3 years to transition from total scratch to making a living from home in any career you want.
James Altucher
#30. I now have anti-bodies to assholes after working for so many.
Crystal Woods
#31. It doesn't matter whether you do small or big Job; what matters is job Contentment.
Mohith Agadi
#32. I had no idea what it took to be an actor. Then all of a sudden I found myself cast in a TV drama. The director was very harsh with me. One time, he told me this would be my first and last acting job. I seriously thought that acting was not the right career for me.
Lee Byung-hun
#33. Your LinkedIn profile must include keywords for specific skills that match your desired job.
Melanie Pinola
#34. Desperation works in job search as well as it does in dating.
Darrell Gurney
#35. An acting career usually has about a shelf life of ten years before people get sick of seeing you. It's a good thing to have a job to fall back on and I really do enjoy directing.
George Clooney
#36. My job is to create myself a career that I can go to sleep satisfied with what I'm doing.
Kate Del Castillo
#37. ...if you do the job no one wants, you might eventually get the job everybody wants. But you have to be willing to climb the ladder, starting with the bottom rung.
Mark Batterson
#38. You can think about your career or you can think about your job. I like to think about my job.
Liev Schreiber
#39. Don't make your job your assignment. Rather, make your life assignment your career and job
Sunday Adelaja
#40. The student develops an analytical as well as finely blended character. He is able to choose from a wide variety of job fields from which to embrace a career, without having to be a specialist in one particular discipline.
Philippe Perrin
#41. It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are.
Alan Watts
#42. I could have easily never worked again after 'Precious.' I could be back at my receptionist job and no one would be surprised, but I'm having a very crazy little career that no one thought would happen. Although that was never the plan.
Gabourey Sidibe
#43. Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.
Wallace Shawn
#44. Do you want a level of income to fit your lifestyle or a lifestyle to fit your income level?
Miles Anthony Smith
#45. So many people spend years (and money) studying to be doctors, lawyers, actors, dancers, business executives and scientists - when you're an author, you can be any of these things, and you don't need a degree or certificate; all you need is an imagination, a dream and an open mind.
Rebecca McNutt
#46. You shouldn't strategize your career if you're in a creative realm. You can't either. I love the unknown. I love the element of surprise. I've always felt really inspired by it. I love the spontaneity of the job. I think you can't really fight against it.
Emily Blunt
#47. I determine to render more and better service, each day, than I am being paid to render. Those that reach the top are the ones who are not content with doing only what is required of them.
Og Mandino
#48. The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!
Earl Nightingale
#49. I do get away maybe a little bit more than most coaches do, but that seems to have worked for me in my coaching career. I recommended the way not to get burned out from your job is to have some hobbies and get away from it when you can.
Steve Spurrier
#50. I wake up every day and think about what I am to other people. What I am to the people I employ, who depend on me to wake up and do my job that day and keep this career going? I think about what I am to the kids who listen to my music and all the other people involved in this project.
Halsey
#51. Entrepreneurship is an addiction to being successful, not a job or career. You have to feed the addiction and recharge from it or you'll burn out.
Ryan Blair
#52. 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
#53. People would rather spend $50 learning useful career skills online than go to university for a few years, leaving with tens of thousands of dollars in debt and no job.
Rob Cubbon
#54. I'm not ambitious about my career, but I am ambitious with each job. I can be fairly annoying to work with.
Mads Mikkelsen
#55. Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.
Barbara Stanwyck
#56. Once I became a cop. I dived into that career. I never wanted to be an LAPD officer because I thought 'LA is super dangerous, not the place I'd want to be a cop'. But as a boy of course I was into guns, cops and robbers, so that's why it was cool to me and thought 'Yeah I could do this job'.
Eric Hernandez
#57. 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
#58. But I would defy anyone to go back over the years and tell me anyone whose career I've ruined, anyone whom I've driven out of the service, anyone I've fired from a job.
Norman Schwarzkopf
#59. What exactly are you looking for in a job? Like, what's your best-case scenario for a new career?"
"I haven't really thought that far. The best-case scenario is just that I look back on this entire era of my life and laugh and say, 'What a weird time that was. I can't believe I did that.
Drew Nellins Smith
#60. Once I started down the path of co-founding Image Comics, and even co-publisher, it just seems a lot more like a career path that isn't that atypical for someone with a college degree. Whereas, someone who draws comic books as a freelancer and lives from job to job is a more unusual story.
Jim Lee
#61. I am really passionate about my career and my music and I am so lucky to be able to do what I do for a job, so for all the early morning starts and long days, I could never trade it all in.
Rachel Stevens
#62. Give a person a job you help them pay some bills, teach them how to find a career and you provide them with sustenance for life!
Mark W. Boyer
#63. Glenda enjoyed her job. She didn't have a career; they were for people who could not hold down jobs.
Terry Pratchett
#64. I came out of my professional athlete career with a 450 credit score, no money in the bank to show for it, but I had an Ivy League degree. So I put that Dartmouth degree to good use and got a job on Wall Street. I hated it but used the time to make connections and become financially literate.
Brian J. White
#65. When I said I might die tomorrow, I didn't mean, like, literally tomorrow. This job is really turning out to have been a bad career move.
Angela Claire
#66. I think that most artists scorned would prefer to be known as the one with the genius brain risking no career over the one with the good brain and great career.
Criss Jami
#67. I think it [films] was my passion without it being declared like a job that I could have, or a career that I could have.
David O. Russell
#68. I have a limited amount of time to build a career out of football and be the best that I can be at this job. When this job is over, I have the rest of my life to do what I want with my time.
J. J. Watt
#69. It was my very good fortune to find a mentor, Clay Felker, who started my career at the 'New York Magazine' as a freelance writer when I had to quit my job at the 'Herald Tribune' to stay home with my young daughter.
Gail Sheehy
#70. Giving the utmost of herself to three absorbing interests [marriage, motherhood, career] ... was a problem for a superwoman, and a job for a superwoman, and only some such fabled being could have accomplished it with success.
Storm Jameson
#71. It's LeBron's team. He's the captain. This is the time in my career where I can fit in. I'm now in the security business. My job is to protect the King, and that's what I'm here to do.
Shaquille O'Neal
#73. Early in my publishing career, someone told me I'd need to have five books in print before I could quit my job as a journalist. Turns out it was closer to 10 books. It also turns out that while it's great to see my titles on bookstore shelves, my best customers are schools and libraries.
Kate Klise
#74. I am suggesting that we don't put the "income" cart before the "contentment" horse.
Miles Anthony Smith
#75. In the India I was growing up in, history wasn't really a wise career option. People would joke and say, 'History's okay, but what's your actual job?' I didn't come from a privileged background and couldn't afford to be irresponsible, so I did the pragmatic thing and did a MBA.
Amish Tripathi
#76. Law became boring, but like every job I've done, it helped prepare me for a career in music.
Estelle
#77. I liked my job, but I didn't have a glittering career, and even if I had, let's be honest: women are still only really valued for two things - their looks and their role as mothers. I'm not beautiful, and I can't have kids, so what does that make me? Worthless.
Paula Hawkins
#78. You work [as an actor] for a bit, and then the job ends 'cause you get thrown off a bridge. And then, you suddenly don't have a career and you have to wait for the next bit to come along. It's the most strange profession in the world.
David Oakes
#80. The surest way to ensure career extinction is to resist change and adaptation.
Miles Anthony Smith
#81. People have lots of misconceptions about me. My mum, who is half French and half Spanish, gets outraged when I'm called quintessentially English. I owe my looks to my mum-which was 90 percent of getting my first job. And, some people would argue, 90 percent of my entire career.
Helena Bonham Carter
#82. Even though your time on the job is temporary, if you do a good enough job, your work there will last forever.
Idowu Koyenikan
#83. Some idea of inflation comes from seeing a youngster get his first job at a salary you dreamed of as the culmination of your career.
Bill Vaughan
#84. When you make the decision to start something new, first figure out the jobs you want to do. Then position yourself to play where no one else is playing.
Whitney Johnson
#85. Smile at people, pop your head into your boss's office regularly and say hello, and come to your first meeting with something really smart to say.
Kate White
#86. I moved with my mom to Los Angeles for her to pursue her acting career, and she got a job casting atmosphere in some independent films.
Thomas Ian Nicholas
#87. When presented with an open door in your job, drive a Mack truck through it.
Miles Anthony Smith
#88. I am a career public servant. Until the aftermath of Benghazi, I loved every day of my job.
Greg Hicks
#89. I did a couple of films, I was very lucky at the beginning of my career ... and then, I never had another job here for ten years probably and I moved to Europe.
Rupert Everett
#90. I don't consider my work a job. I consider it a career. And you
don't quit a career.
Candace Bushnell
#91. Each job requires a conscious choice of career path, and a different plan of development.
Auliq Ice
#92. I realised early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job.
Sara Sheridan
#93. Going from sharing a one-bedroom place to living in a loft to two people living in a house to me having my own place by myself has kind of mirrored my career ... small steps to bigger, to bigger, to now having a steady job.
Dianna Agron
#94. Getting accepted or rejected is based on factors for a job is mere for selection and not the result. Life has bigger results awaiting to face! Face it with a smile!
Santosh Avvannavar
#95. Work-family conflicts
the trade-offs of your money or your life, your job or your child
would not be forced upon women with suchsanguine disregard if men experienced the same career stalls caused by the-buck-stops-here responsibility for children.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
#97. The job wouldn't be just put the summer, but for a long time, as long as she could see ahead. Once they were used to the money coming in it would be impossible to do without again.
Carson McCullers
#98. Blythe Danner is somebody whose career I admire. She's a great actress and does good work, but also has a life of her own. I love my job but, at the end of the day, I want to come home and watch a movie and drink a bottle of wine with my husband.
Anna Faris
#99. 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
#100. Never depend on a single income. Make Investments to create a second source." - Warren Buffet
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