Careers Quotes · Page 15

I've never been good at making smart career decisions or doing the right strategic thing, and yet somehow it's all led me…

— Michael Cerveris

Dreams are selfish, in the sense that they always concern issues and events that were weighing on your mind at the time…

— Charles McPhee

I know that if I could really understand mental illness, then it would be appropriate to make a big career shift. I…

— Anonymous

We show a lot of film [with Regis Philbin] from my career which is most enjoyable. I enjoy watching it.

— Don Rickles

There weren't a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn't have a lot of ambition, just the love…

— Dave Grohl

Thankfully I've been quite lucky in my career, but it's always good to re-evaluate things and think about what else you want…

— Neil Patrick Harris

It's perhaps not the future I would choose. I still think it's possible to make a success of both marriage and career…

— Barbara Stanwyck

I wanted to make sure that I did one movie in my career that mothers hug me for.

— Adam Sandler

In order to promote your own career, you need to promote the careers of others.

— Gerald C. Meyers

I could be a star and maybe make lots of money, or I could change roles all the time and have a…

— Franco Nero

If a man has a very decided character, has a strongly accentuated career, it is normally the case of course that he…

— Theodore Roosevelt

My career in academic research has not been involved with active management of securities. I've tried to understand risk-and-return relationships; also the…

— Myron Scholes

If you follow your bliss...the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.

— Joseph Campbell

I've never felt that I was less of an athlete or not accomplished athletically because I didn't win an Olympic medal. It's…

— Mary Decker

There's more student debt than credit card debt! Everywhere I go, I run into young people trying to build careers while they…

— Gail Collins

To learn anything other than the stuff you find in books, you need to be able to experiment, to make mistakes, to…

— Charles Handy

You can't start out at 20 in whatever your profession is and say, "I want to win an Olympic medal," or "I…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

You want bold? Ask the hundreds of defensive backs I ran over during my career if they think I'm bold.

— Jerome Bettis

Fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez was a major part of my early career.

— Andre Leon Talley

Without seeing any reason to believe that women are, on the average, so strong physically, intellectually, or morally, as men, I cannot…

— Thomas Huxley

I devoted my career to building an affinity with my fans who have supported me unflinchingly and no barbed wire fence or…

— Foxy Brown

The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else.

— Earl Nightingale

We figure great careers aren't made. They're experienced.

— Thomas Jefferson

Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's…

— Eddie Marsan

But when it became an international hoopla where careers lived and died on whether or not you did or didn't get an…

— George C. Scott