Careers Quotes · Page 15

Careers can disappear just as quickly as they're made, so I'm in no hurry.

— Jason Mraz

A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone.

— Lorna Luft

Men have to ask, 'How can I combine career and family?'

— Gloria Steinem

At my age, no one is married, no one has kids, no one has a career.

— Lena Dunham

My life and my career have been a series of happy and not so happy accidents.

— Jeff Ross

Well, I think I've had a fairly meandering career.

— Christina Ricci

You give until they can't live without it. That's how careers are built.

— Russell Simmons

I'm very happy to have a small, long, career instead of one big hit and then oblivion.

— Susannah McCorkle

I've reached the pinnacle of my career. I just feel that I don't have anything else to prove.

— Michael Jordan

Football is brutality. Football is career-ending, life-threatening injury just by stepping on the field.

— Rush Limbaugh

I've had a long career and I want to continue to have a long career. The way to do that is not…

— Chris Cornell

My love of words, alcohol, and stage antics basically cemented me as a rapper, but it wasn't a career that I wanted…

— Cakes da killa

And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all…

— William Peter Blatty

I'm a bitter, sad, sour young man who makes a career out of hastling people with real careers.

— Steve Martin

I happen to be lucky in that I knew what I wanted to do as far as a career since I was…

— Alanis Morissette

I had a high-flying career. Never wanted to get married. All I wanted to do was have some fun.

— Cindy Gallop

America is proud of what it does to its writers, the way it breaks and bedevils them, rendering them deluded or drunken…

— Martin Amis

I regret that I didn't enjoy it all more. I didn't savour it until the end because I was so hard on…

— Karen Kain

There is so much temptation to hold on to my career even more now. To try to micromanage and dictate every little…

— Jeremy Lin

Work sustains us as bodies and it consumes a great deal of energy. The conservation of energy is the component theme of…

— Frederick Lenz

In the beginning [of my career] I definitely felt a responsibility because I was representing a bunch of people [Sri lankans] who…

— M.I.A

I came back from Japanese tour a broken man to find that one of my outside productions was very high in the…

— Roger Glover

With Sumthin Else Music Works, I wanted to spread the love and give newcomers a chance to make it because something that…

— Nile Rodgers

I have definitely noticed that I care less about certain things. Other actors are like: "You can't do that", or "You can't…

— Ben Affleck

Economists operate with this image of the homo economicus, the rational economic agent, and while such agents are rare in the wider…

— Thomas Pogge

Peter Fonda was just this clean, cookie-cutter kind of a guy. Roger Corman turned him into the motorcycle man with The Wild…

— Alex Stapleton

As an actor, you very rarely have the experience of picking up a script and getting a few pages into it and…

— Holt McCallany

God, please use me" is the most powerful affirmation we can say for an abundant career. It is the miracle-worker's prayer. Everybody…

— Marianne Williamson

I'm convinced that business success in the future starts with the question, What should I do with my life? Yes, that's right……

— Po Bronson

“We were wondering, you see,’ he said in a faraway voice, ‘whether you’d ever considered signing up with us on a more…

— John le Carré

The Democratic Party is a closed clique. They are not the best and brightest. They're not the smartest. They haven't had to…

— Rush Limbaugh

A song that sounds simple is just not that easy to write. One of the objectives of this record was to try…

— Sheryl Crow

The Parent Trap gave my career another boost, starring in family comedies.

— Maureen O'Hara

I have an interest in everything, but I don't have an interest in starting new careers.

— James Murphy

I had a great career and I enjoyed all of it, with the exception of losing.

— Drew Bledsoe

My career is one thing in my life that I don't plan.

— Jennifer Lawrence

I think no athlete wants to end his career on an injury.

— Jayson Williams

Carelessness with details sinks more careers than anyone will admit.

— Lois Wyse

I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.

— Lance Reddick

Unfortunately my career began in Hollywood, doing a negative pickup for Universal pictures.

— Alex Cox