Career Quotes · Page 258

“Our vocation and professional work is not a second class activity, something we do just to put food on the table. It…

— Nancy Pearcey

The notion of being on a cop show was appealing, just because it's one of those tick boxes in a career.

— Dallas Roberts

Throughout her political career, Vice President Harris has never shied away from issues of race. In fact, the former senator from California,…

— Jonathan Capehart

I'm trying my best with what I want to do, which is modelling. I think I'm on my own career path, and…

— Kendall Jenner

Meldrick Taylor deserves the rematch. He gave me the toughest fight of my career.

— Julio Cesar Chavez Sr

And I didn't, that's why my career was very short lived.

— Kitty Carlisle

I suppose the more established one gets, you have what's called a reputation, and so you want to protect that and preserve…

— Cate Blanchett

More girls are taking up sport and realising it's a legitimate option for them to forge a career.

— Ellyse Perry

I don't know if me and my dad have necessarily touched on this because we talk about Reid but not a lot.…

— Charlotte Flair

Any time you're a type, your career's over.

— Shia LaBeouf

I always think of myself as an 18-year-old beginning my career, all the time.

— Marian Seldes

I for one would be the first to complain if it was judged I'd built my career on my wardrobe rather than…

— Cathy Newman

I guess I've been extremely keen on theatre, on getting on to the stage, taking on different roles, enacting vocations, personalities, people,…

— Amitabh Bachchan

After college, I was burdened with student loans to repay, no financial cushion, so I wasn't in a position to bet everything…

— Chris Pavone

I have always maintained that my concentration is only on my career and on nothing else.

— Priyamani

I had the pressure when I started my career at 18 at Cologne, when people were saying, 'Ah, Podolski, the new hero…

— Lukas Podolski

“Journalists,” she explained in a civics speech about dream careers, “chronicle our everyday lives. They reveal truths and information that the public…

— Celeste Ng

Everybody's career has ups and downs. I like to take chances; I don't like to stand still. And I don't give a…

— Alan Arkin

I can't run my career based on someone else's ideology.

— Yami Gautam

I am confident in saying that Oberlin did more for me than vice versa. I took a fantastic class in religion, which…

— Richard N. Haass

My career has been two steps forward and three steps back.

— Lari White

There is something really nice about learning that you can take the reins of your life and your career.

— Katie Aselton

I didn't want to end my coaching career as an assistant in the NBA.

— Kelvin Sampson

I learned so much from Ric Flair... just listening to him guide me early in my career.

— Ricky Steamboat

At various times in my undercover career I had either a full beard, a short-cropped beard, Fu Manchu, a plain simple moustache…

— Ron Stallworth

I try to just be open to what the next experience is and how it makes me feel, just reading a project,…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

People forgot I was an actor before gaining success in anchoring. That was one of the turning phases of my career.

— Mandira Bedi

My parents were not very happy. They were very worried about me pursuing a career that even if I had talent might…

— Emmylou Harris

When Sinatra said, 'For my money, Tony Bennett is the best singer I've ever heard,' it changed my career completely. He was…

— Tony Bennett

I've had some wonderful successes and some extreme disappointments in my career and my life.

— Joyce Maynard

I have never played any mythological character in my career.

— Suhasini Mulay

Of course, Eden is a fantastic player, one of the best players in the world. He's my friend, one of the best…

— Willian

“Some people have no generic or niche skills but still, they grow in their career, just because of their ‘Neech’ Skills.”

— Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma

I'm completely fine with my career. I feel like I accomplished everything I ever set out to accomplish.

— Christian Cage

In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same…

— George Eliot

I look forward to the end of all this money-making part of the career, to be truthful,

— Paul Guilfoyle

I'm thankful that my career at Oklahoma was marked with consistent leadership in president David Boren and director of athletics Joe Castiglione.

— Bob Stoops

If you don't get tested throughout your career, people can forget about you.

— Shawn Bradley

I was doing drag as just a hobby on the weekends to let my hair down. I never thought of drag was…

— Chi Chi DeVayne

As a player, you always want to know what you can do. At the end of your career, you can look back…

— Harrison Barnes