Career Quotes · Page 117

It is quite beneath the dignity of a person holding a Bachelor of Arts degree to engage in such a vulgar occupation…

— Fukuzawa Yukichi

I have played lead roles, supporting roles and also miniscule roles in my career so far, and have never been image conscious.

— Sangeetha Krish

My whole career the work I do off the field has given me every chance to have the success I've had on…

— Michael Clarke

Cheney's memoir is not about 9/11, or solely about Bush's administration, but about his entire life and political career.

— Elliott Abrams

I think there was no other profession for me. I was either going into an insane asylum or to be an actor.

— Olivia Wilde

In reality, I'm very restless, and I get bored very easily. It's the same with my career: I need to outperform myself…

— Alia Bhatt

“The definition of a professional is one who does a job well even when they don't like it.”

— Alan Sheinwald

I do not consider myself to be a scientist, and I've always deferred to career scientists on issues of science.

— Andrew R. Wheeler

giving the utmost of herself to three absorbing interests [marriage, motherhood, career] ... was a problem for a superwoman, and a job…

— Storm Jameson

As a profession, we face unlimited threats with limited resources. We face a lack of trust in some of the communities we…

— Christopher A. Wray

I have a career now, and I have to say, five years ago I didn't. I'm 50, and you never know what…

— Ira Sachs

Everybody makes a decision about where they want their career to go. If I really want something, I put a lot of…

— Lil Rel Howery

I am used to playing in six different positions in my career, so that's not an issue for me. I have always…

— Kevin De Bruyne

My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant, someone who disrupts the daily drag of life just enough to leave…

— Elvis Costello

It's so wide; that's what I love most about my career. It's been varied, and the music has been varied, because I…

— Harvey Mason, Jr

I have spent a lot of time in Italy throughout my career - especially when I was karting, because it's kind of…

— Lewis Hamilton

We are professionals, we have to set the example and not provoke anyone.

— Leonardo Bonucci

It's possible to do both as a writer - to engage and have a family and all that good stuff - and…

— Donald Miller

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

— Madame de Stael

“Work destroys your soul by stealthily invading your brain during the hours not officially spent working; be selective about professions.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We've done enough - and made enough mistakes - to pretty well know how to guide our careers ourselves.

— Isaac Hanson

Barring wacky nonsense, I'm going to end my career in a Ring of Honor ring. And that to me is fine. It's…

— Christopher Daniels

People often refer to my career before The Crying Game as something which led up to that point. But I was very…

— Stephen Rea

I believe it doesn't really matter where you work as long as you work. Keep sharpening your teeth.

— Morgan Freeman

It means the world to me to be teaming with Sting. To have any part of his legendary career, especially the tail…

— Darby Allin

For the majority of my amateur boxing career, I was the underdog weirdly enough and that served me well.

— Luke Campbell

“A professional is someone who can do his best when doesn't feel like it.”

— Anonymous

I'd always liked movies in a kind of naive way. They seemed no less improbable a career than anything else.

— Terrence Malick

I did a lot of musicals when I first started my career, so I can carry a tune well.

— Josh Dallas

Writing is not a genteel profession. It's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty.

— Rosemary Mahoney

Leaving your old record label doesn't have to be a stall in your career. It's like new life being breathed into it.

— Lari White

One of my objectives when I started Biocon was to make sure that I create a company for women scientists to pursue…

— Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

“a man who has risked his life knows that careers are worthless, and a man who will not risk his career has…

— Orson Scott Card

I have to give the SNL crew props - it cannot have been easy to work with me.

— Darrell Hammond

Growing up the way I did, being an actor in Hollywood was definitely never a plausible career choice at all.

— Hong Chau

If you have real passion for a career in game shows, be willing to serve an apprenticeship; it's the best way to…

— Randy West

You can't buy back your respect; you can't buy back your career. You only get one, so I don't want to mess…

— Shia LaBeouf

I really pulled back on my career when the kids were young and my husband and I made a pact never to…

— Blythe Danner

I began my career as a recording artist, and eventually I started directing my own music videos.

— Johan Renck

Given how shy I was as a kid, the young me would be astonished to discover that I've made a career out…

— Martin Kemp