Career Quotes · Page 249

I'd done about 10 movies before I decided I wanted to make acting the main thrust of my career.

— Jeff Bridges

Going to the Portland Trail Blazers, who actually took the time to invest in me, was perhaps the best thing that ever…

— Clyde Drexler

I started my modelling career by sending my pictures to American Apparel and eventually meeting my friend Petra Collins, who started shooting…

— Barbie Ferreira

I want to be one of the youngest actors ever to direct a feature. That would be a nice thing to hear.…

— Tony Revolori

I am happy doing a lot of different things. I'm not set on any particular career path.

— Scheana Shay

I think having a back-up plan is never a bad thing. I would hate to be a male footballer and look back…

— Eniola Aluko

I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great…

— Richard Powers

In India, the key is to start at the base and start very young. We need professionally trained talent, talent that wants…

— Ronnie Screwvala

People don't need motivation, they need guidance. If guided well, motivation will come itself.

— Jatin Tanwer

My whole career has been marked by taking on the toughest problems, bringing people together, creating uncommon coalitions to ultimately produce uncommon…

— Cory Booker

New York is really where my career somewhat started.

— Jose Feliciano

To succeed in any undertaking, any art or any trade or any profession, simply keep it ever persistently fixed in mind as…

— Prentice Mulford

If you don’t take control of your career, guess what? You’ll be stuck in the sunset watching the sunrise, I am thesunrise.

— Nicki Minaj

Everyone wants to have a career year, but if I stick to what I'm doing, I like my chances. I'll be fine.

— Jake Arrieta

I've done some pretty cool individual things in my career, but my greatest memories come from times of sacrifice.

— David Lee

A fierce literary woman with a penchant for married men, Margaret Fuller was ultimately torn between motherhood and her final career as…

— Susan Cheever

Sometimes when you look at somebody else's career or choices or family, there's almost a comfort in knowing there's another option.

— Carrie Brownstein

I don't consider my work a job. I consider it a career. And you don't quit a career.

— Candace Bushnell

I went to college thinking of maybe pursuing a career in film criticism.

— Michael Showalter

I've had the honor of working with so many trans people as a hairdresser over my career in some way.

— Jonathan Van Ness

I stretched my whole career - it didn't save me when I blew my back, and of course, that's where the whole…

— Diamond Dallas Page

“If your career doesn’t work out, write a book about it.”

— Marcy Sheiner

I have faced challenges during the initial stages of my career, and I see Run Adam as filling a vacuum.

— MS Dhoni

I did interviews with tennis greats, like James Blake and John Isner. I also interviewed tennis pros who aren't well - known…

— Douglas Brunt

A revolutionary career does not lead to banquets and honorary titles, interesting research and professorial wages. It leads to misery, disgrace, ingratitude,…

— Max Horkheimer

And I get asked all the time about my career, growing up as an athlete, as kind of an underdog type of…

— Doug Pederson

Playing for England was always something I dreamt of and, of course, you then think of the captaincy. It was something I…

— Andrew Flintoff

As an actress, I had a very short career - it lasted 12 years.

— Mumtaz

My career has been wacky and not at all normal. I've never had a manager, nobody gets jobs for me. I wind…

— Nile Rodgers

“ Your favorite occupation? Travel in contested territory. Hard-working writing and reading when safely home, in the knowledge that an amusing friend…

— Christopher Hitchens

I didn't get a lot of questions asked earlier in my career, I guess. But I've always been the same guy, more…

— Jorge Masvidal

Early in my career I had to be a goon to survive. I did everything I had to do and probably some…

— Matt Barnes

They do say that the profession gets increasingly difficult, but my career seems to have been inside out.

— Diana Rigg

Since I don't come from a privileged background, I couldn't afford to be irresponsible with career decisions. I wrote two books alongside…

— Amish Tripathi

People have decided that career politicians may be part of the problem, not part of the solution.

— Carly Fiorina

During my career I had been training twice a day, every day, because it was all about me. That was the job.…

— Denise Lewis

Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low…

— Paul Nurse

I can't point to anything that has been more responsible for my career than my training.

— Jim Parrack

It would be cool to win a World Cup, and I think it would be good for my career as well.

— Lindsey Horan

It shouldn't come as any surprise that those who choose acting as a profession are phonies who live in a fantasy world.…

— Julie Burchill