Career Quotes · Page 121

Most people perceive their occupation as being a detriment to their overall wellbeing.

— Tom Rath

I majored in the history and literature of Russia and Britain. It has not helped my career.

— Colin Jost

Reality is, I could have made Japan a career. I could have just gone to Japan and I'd have been great.

— Ted DiBiase Sr

To have the right team is key at the beginning to build your career on the court and off the court.

— Danilo Gallinari

I just want to be happy. I want to be happy and be able to finish my career in the right way.

— Brandon Jacobs

I know there are some powerful people in the industry who don't want me to do well.

— Govinda

I want to have the same success in my acting career as I did in my boxing career.

— David Haye

I want to finish my career as a Dolphin and win a championship here. That's what they brought me here for and…

— Ryan Tannehill

I wanted very badly to be a mum. I'm a very maternal person. But at the point that I met Emilio I…

— Gloria Estefan

As I've moved along - not only my life, but my career and things like that - you look at yourself and…

— Amos Lee

Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you're going someplace and you…

— Al Pacino

I actually went to study journalism at Northwestern, thinking that would be my Plan B for a career. But then I realized,…

— Claire Coffee

I've never thought about the end of my career. I've had this growing motto in my life to live day to day…

— Troy Polamalu

“You must be sure of two things: you must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it,…

— George Eliot

My translation work has been pretty separate from my fiction, as it was basically an accidental side project that turned into a…

— Ken Liu

“To be an enthusiast had become her social vocation and, sometimes even when she did not feel like it, she became enthusiastic…

— Leo Tolstoy

I had a long career that started when I was 17. I wrestled for 20 years, so people forget how long I…

— Edge

I seem to enjoy making my life miserable by taking on too many projects and always wishing I could put more time…

— Colin Marston

“Architecture is not a business, not a career, but a crusade and a consecration to a joy that justifies the existence of…

— Ayn Rand

Balanced, passionate, grounded people are the ones whose careers are ultimately the most successful.

— Emily V. Gordon

I have always reflected on goals conceded throughout my career - win, lose or draw, there is always thinking to be done.

— David James

“No one owes you a great career, it argues; you need to earn it—and the process won’t be easy.”

— Cal Newport

I believe the Stanislavski thing that there are no small parts. I built an entire career out of that that I'm really…

— Greta Lee

There are times in my career where I could've called it quits, and that would've ate at me for the rest of…

— Josh Allen

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

— Mandira Bedi

You'll sacrifice a lot of things in the early part of your career to be successful, but to be ahead of your…

— Ivan Glasenberg

Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.

— Ray Bradbury

I feel like I was fighting my whole career to be like, 'No, look at me. I can do this. I'll show…

— Liv Morgan

I really carried that seventh-round tag with me my whole career, even at the end.

— Shannon Sharpe

I think when you play the right way, you get rewarded and throughout my career it's been that way.

— Jared Dudley

“Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.”

— Jules Renard 1890

In the real world, some defense lawyers never have an innocent client in their whole career.

— Michael Connelly

Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual.

— Homa Bahrami

I came to Liverpool wanting to stay here for the rest of my career. I certainly didn't want to leave after a…

— Jordan Henderson

I started my career at the top and have been working my way downwards ever since.

— Tom Glazer

From my standpoint, I feel like I'm at the start of my career, I'm only 23-years-old but I have been doing it…

— Pete Dunne

I got to have this amazing career, proved a lot to myself and to a lot of other people.

— Jessica Pegula

I had a very difficult time deciding to go on my mission. It was hard to set aside my basketball career.

— Shawn Bradley

I love Octavia Spencer. I love what she has to say as a human, and I love her career and the variety…

— Danielle Macdonald

Everyone wants to belong, and everyone needs to belong in order to make a career on some level.

— Ira Sachs