Career Quotes · Page 166

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

— Robert Baden-Powell

I started my career in Portugal, and the longest I've ever played a character was for about a year, which is how…

— Daniela Ruah

I never thought I could win Mr. Olympia when I started my career in 2002.

— Phil Heath

Yeah, I definitely like broadcasting. And I'm looking forward to getting into it when my career is done.

— Tristan Thompson

You can have a career and kids who love you. But you have to nurture yourself and find a way to be…

— Catherine Reitman

At the end of a career you're desperate more than ever for medals, grabbing as much as you can as you go.

— Jamie Carragher

During my 40-something-year acting career, I have always been about the work.

— Paul Raci

Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career?

— Placido Domingo

There is no right field of study, right occupation, sport or activity that matches your inner strengths and capabilities until you really…

— Senoraroy

Being chief selector has been the most challenging role of my cricket career, as I was heavily criticised for my decisions, and…

— Inzamam-ul-Haq

The Temper Trap's 'Sweet Disposition' is an invigorating song. It's my mental cue to let go of stress, disconnect from my career…

— Mylene Dinh-Robic

“I don't really care if people forget me. My legacy wasn't about me. It was about everything I could do for another.…

— Shannon L. Alder

It is not something I ever envisaged doing when I set out - thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'd love to be a third-choice…

— Robert Green

I was a man who played basketball and after I played basketball and before I played basketball I was going to be…

— John Amaechi

I began photographing around 14; my mother gave me a camera, it's actually the one I still use for creating most of…

— Erik Madigan Heck

“Preparation, application and determination are three of the most important factors that enable you to regain your sparkle and shine like never…

— Donald Pillai

I feel my career has been three entities - one with the Saints, one with the Falcons and a third sort of…

— Morten Andersen

Fashion is really interesting to me, but I'm not a professional model, so I'm focusing my career on acting.

— Rinko Kikuchi

It's not necessarily about what career you pick. It's about how you do what you do.

— Cory Doctorow

I never considered game show host as a career, but it's fun because I get to inject some of my comedy into…

— Scott Rogowsky

As a professional broadcaster, I can tell you that over the course of my career, there is an adage: don't ever apologize.

— Rush Limbaugh

“Often it takes more guts than skill to open doors. Once the doors get opened, then it's up to you.”

— Julieanne O'Connor

Over the course of my career, all the managers were people I have had great respect for.

— Eidur Gudjohnsen

Leading a human life is a full-time occupation, to which everyone devotes decades of intense concern.

— Thomas Nagel

'Man v. Food' was the biggest career-defining opportunity. I went from anonymity to someone of note with access to amazing eateries.

— Adam Richman

A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my…

— Barbara Walters

Most people are living a life they don't like. They go to work where they don't want to work.

— Diego Luna

It always irritated me that people think they have to be locked into a career path.

— Eric Betzig

When I was younger, I thought maybe one day I'd be involved in sport in terms of career.

— Jamie Dornan

You get one life. And if you make the mistake of choosing a profession that doesn't enrich anybody but you, you wont…

— Umair Haque

I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.

— Camryn Manheim

Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have…

— Charlize Theron

In terms of a "career," I never have long-term plans, and certainly don't want to spend several years, say, writing a "long"…

— Scott Bradfield

It was hard to know if anything, any one particular thing, increased my career or not.

— Thurl Ravenscroft

I didn't want to stay in the closet to get work. I wanted to be out whether it affected my career or…

— Scott Evans

Anything that has a creative element attached to it - I will take it up, similar to my career choices.

— Nandita Mahtani

Educating bold and ambitious children from cradle to career stands as a clear and foundational goal for Georgia.

— Stacey Abrams

I worked 10 years as a toy designer before I started my career as a fashion designer. It's something I just fell…

— Jason Wu

Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up.

— Cathy Guisewite

“Even though your time on the job is temporary, if you do a good enough job, your work there will last forever.”

— Idowu Koyenikan