Career Quotes · Page 95

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

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

— Madame de Stael

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

— Isaac Hanson

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

— Morgan Freeman

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

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

— Anonymous

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

— Darby Allin

I'm not one to pat myself on my back, but I have had a career for 20 years, and if people are…

— Matthew Williamson

Depending on what happens with my directing career, I don't think I'll stop writing, even if I crash and burn in movies…

— Alan Ball

On-camera stuff just hit. I decided to do it to supplement my voice-over career, but I ended up falling in love with…

— Matthew Moy

I've had more ups than downs in my career. All you can do is keep working. You still have to take enjoyment…

— Eden Hazard

Oh, my father's had a huge, immense impact on my career. I grew up on movie sets that he was working on,…

— Jake Busey

The benefits of a healthy, thriving relationship may not be nearly as exciting as watching your career take off, but both aspects…

— Emily V. Gordon

I started my career with Shatrughan Sinha's home production 'Aandhiyaan' that was never completed. It was a song to be enacted by…

— Kumar Sanu

Being compared to such a player like Pirlo, a guy who has won everything in his career, that's very important for me.…

— Marco Verratti

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

— Luke Campbell

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

“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

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

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

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 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

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

Even a boring occupation can be interesting when your goal is to do it better

— Robert Half

This was more than just a cow - this was an entire career I was looking at.

— Gary Larson

I wouldn't have taken up modeling as a profession. It was more of a hobby.

— Kriti Sanon

I've been really lucky that my career has largely been shaped by women filmmakers.

— Lily Gladstone

My career aspirations as an actor have always been driven foremost by the creative desire to be versatile.

— Jimmy Smits

Oh my goodness, do I aspire to be like Gisele? I just turned 23, I'm enjoying being young and focusing on my career.

— Camille Kostek

You see, rock and roll isn't a career or hobby - it's a life force. It's something very essential.

— The Edge

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

— Anonymous

I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can't physically entertain any longer. It's what I was born to do,…

— Bette Midler

When I started my career in the early 2000s you didn't have to be seen everywhere, every time.

— Bhumika Chawla