Career Quotes · Page 173

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

— Christian Bale

The thing I like to do the most is play-make and create for others. Obviously in my career, I've done the scoring…

— Gordon Hayward

“A job shouldn’t be a mean of existence but rather, a means of sustenance”

— Sunday Adelaja

The great ambition should be to excel all others engaged in the same occupation.

— Anonymous

I started my career as a novelist. 'Veronica Mars' was first imagined as a novel.

— Rob Thomas

My career is inexplicable to me. So far I've just been not getting fired despite being myself.

— Nick Offerman

I've always been really good at staying in the moment my whole career. I just stay within myself.

— Joe Thornton

The prevailing structures of personal reputation and career advancement mean the biggest rewards often follow the flashiest work, not the best.

— Randy Schekman

Everybody has the prerogative for their own career in this business, and I firmly believe that to this day. But if you…

— Shane Douglas

I was very lucky because Tim Burton really gave me a career. I don't think Hollywood would've known what to do with…

— Winona Ryder

During the time that my recording career seemed to be in a slump a music called disco came on the scene and…

— Dionne Warwick

Think of your career as your ministry. Make your work an expression of love, in service to mankind. Within the worldly illusion,…

— Marianne Williamson

The people who I thought would be the hardest to work with were the easiest, and the people I thought would be…

— Leo Fitzpatrick

At the beginning of my career, fresh out of college, I did everything that I could do. And now I'm a little…

— Jenny Slate

Whenever my career is done, I'll look back on this stage of my career with Manchester United. I've been here since I…

— Scott McTominay

I call Algonquin Books 'the gods and goddesses of publishing.' Not only did they give me a career, they care deeply about…

— Caroline Leavitt

When I first agreed to do 'Shark Tank,' they asked me to wear a suit, and I was just like, 'No. I…

— Chris Sacca

We live in this business where we've got to do what we have to do - play professional.

— Ricky Rubio

I came to write after several mini careers. I did live theatre, managed a cosmetics store and was a local television personality.

— Sandra Brown

I have really tried to create a balance between my home life and my career.

— Chad Michaels

I'd done acting at a local drama school on Saturdays. I just enjoyed it. It never entered my mind I could possibly…

— Jodie Comer

I had pain in both knees my whole career. Not many athletes play pain-free. Mine was just more than normal.

— Willie McCovey

When I signed with Bellator, I knew this would be a new positive chapter in my career.

— Lyoto Machida

Like many other professions as well but for me, football is a big example of life because you have it all in…

— Ruben Dias

As I get older in my skateboarding career, I would like to get more into the business side of things - starting…

— Nyjah Huston

The profession to which we belong, once venerated...-has become corrupt and degenerate to the forfeiture of its social position...

— Nathaniel Chapman

I never thought that I would be able to make singing a career. It's great that my passion is also the source…

— Ankit Tiwari

That's how I choose to approach my career. I'm constantly trying to find an edge and find the next way to improve…

— Trevor Bauer

I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went…

— Colin Hanks

If these are the last 34 games of my NBA career, I want them played as tough as I can.

— Antonio Davis

If I spent my career responding to critics, I'd never be where I'm at right now.

— Roy Jones Jr

I can tell you what people on minimum wage want: They want a career. They don't want a minimum wage.

— Kathy Szeliga

“Talent without money, coach, vision and mission is a piteous adventure.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I think a lot of people, they don't love their jobs but they don't hate them enough to quit. So they're like,…

— Oscar Nunez

There are a lot of things about my career now that are as I imagined, hoped for and worked towards.

— Karen Walker

Allow your passion to become your purpose, and it will one day become your profession.

— Anonymous

With your first film, you can make mistakes, but your second and third movies map out your career.

— Athiya Shetty

I've seen young actresses have major falls from their career, and that's just not what I want.

— Ariel Winter

Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves.

— Alain de Botton

The opportunity to co-host a program within the 'Fox & Friends' franchise is truly an incredible milestone in my career.

— Jedediah Bila