Career Quotes · Page 156

My dad was a 30-year career Marine. He was stationed in Quantico Va., and another military base.

— Deb Haaland

Every job I've ever gotten has been an accident. All the jobs I actually go after, I don't get.

— Moon Unit Zappa

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

— Anonymous

The way that I want to define my NFL career is by being a consistently successful guy.

— Minkah Fitzpatrick

“Yes, I’d definitely be a career woman … actually, that’s funny because you would never call a man a “career man”.”

— Jane Caro

I've been on 'Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa,' and I know it does wonders for your career.

— Rithvik Dhanjani

I've locked myself in my room and wanted to be on my own a lot in my career, but I don't do…

— Alisson

Planning a career, I always find a tricky thing, because I don't have much of a plan, really.

— Christian Bale

I'm nothing to do with the Conservative Party; I'm not a member of the Conservative Party. I stopped being a member shortly…

— Michael Portillo

Starting my career in London was no accident because the city and the industry here are all about theatre and drama, and…

— Erin O'Connor

I've actually performed at Gay Pride in Atlanta three times in my career. I've always had a large gay following, particularly in…

— Jennifer Nettles

“And uh, forget the money. Because, if you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you will spend your…

— Allan Watts

I'm proud that I've even had a career, but 'proud' isn't the first word I'd use. I feel lucky that I moved…

— Roisin Murphy

After college, I became a geologist, mapping what lay beneath the earth's surface. I thought I had my life pretty figured out…

— John Hickenlooper

You just do the roles that you want to do and that you're lucky enough to get cast in, and then eventually…

— Josephine Langford

After giving up softball, I didn't know what I was going to do. I thought I would try bobsled, but I wasn't…

— Elana Meyers

I've been blessed. I've had a fortunate, successful career in the NFL. It's been longer than I initially expected when I came…

— Nnamdi Asomugha

I want people to look back at my career and say, 'That guy never backed down from anyone.'

— Mikey Garcia

I've set myself up nice where I've been having a good career but it doesn't matter if you're not winning games when…

— T. J. Watt

I like it that my career has all the predictability and continuity of a children's nonsense rhyme.

— Nick Bantock

Any actor will want his 100th film to be a commercial film, the biggest movie of his career.

— Raghava Lawrence

I've been through a lot in my career, and the failure that I've gone through makes me really appreciate the moments of…

— Jake Arrieta

A career public speaker is not what I'm called to be. I'm called to be a critic.

— Tony Campolo

If my British film career was a girl, then I'd been hanging around outside her apartment a little bit too long.

— Rufus Sewell

I'm fully aware, I've gotten terrible reviews my entire career. It's not a really big deal; it's something I can deal with.

— Lou Barlow

“When you're vested in fear, frightened of failure, yet in the surrender is where you find your success.”

— Julieanne O'Connor

I was a songwriter; that was the torch I carried. This is an honorable profession. This is what I do.

— Rosanne Cash

“Like plumbing, medicine is a profession where you learn early on not to put your fingers in your mouth.”

— Diana Gabaldon

Earlier in my career, a lot of guys wanted individual numbers and to do well individually.

— Luol Deng

Bobby Cox had the biggest influence in my career and probably the second- or third-biggest influence in my life.

— Tom Glavine

Throughout my career as a songwriter, I've had a knack for writing songs that were about me and my life experiences and…

— Richie Sambora

Thankfully I've been quite lucky in my career, but it's always good to re-evaluate things and think about what else you want…

— Neil Patrick Harris

If you draft me, then you'll have somebody who's going to improve throughout my entire career.

— Nick Bosa

Early in my career, if I didn't get the ball, or if something would happen, or the media would say something, I'd…

— Zach Ertz

It's a competitive sport, a competitive nature, we're all professionals.

— DeSean Jackson

Thought is powerful in all phases. Even in my career, even in my life, things end up exactly how I visualized them.

— Nipsey Hussle

What was cool about my career, Jack LaLanne gave me my first break on TV. I was his co-host.

— Denise Austin

“I hired a gold medallist from an ivy league that rejected me 20 years ago...success has many dimensions.”

— Sandhya Jane

Every international career is going to come to an end you're going to pass it down to the younger generation. Every career…

— DeAndre Yedlin

A large part of my career achievements are due to having the courage to ask for what I needed, whether in a…

— Cathy Engelbert