Careers Quotes · Page 50

I didn't have a normal academic career. I never studied cinema. I learned from life.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

My career at Microsoft really was getting in the way of my cooking.

— Nathan Myhrvold

I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career.

— Charlize Theron

I always describe my career as something where nothing ever popped overnight.

— Emmanuelle Chriqui

I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career.

— Marguerite Young

I've had a blessed career, and that has been acknowledged in many ways over the years.

— Jimmy Nail

I grew up around acting, but it was never thought of as a career.

— Troy Garity

I think actors' careers have highs and lows, and ups and downs. It just really all depends.

— Tricia Helfer

Beyoncé built her f–king foundation from the bottom. I think that’s the exact career every female artist wants to have.

— Rita Ora

A third of our kids, after we spend more per student than any country in the world other than a couple rounding…

— Jeb Bush

In a career that is marked by grace, style and beautiful batsmanship, it’s a slog that’s ended Rahul Dravid‘s career. But once…

— Harsha Bhogle

My teaching career started with me teaching comp at a very small school in Buffalo. And I was terrible at that point.…

— Rob Roberge

The turning point in my career came with the realization that Black should play to win instead of just steering for equality.

— Bobby Fischer

Jim Carrey can do anything he wants, right? There are guys like that. I'm not one of those guys, so my career…

— LeVar Burton

That is the one thing in my public career that I regret--my work to secure the enactment of the Federal Reserve Law.

— William Jennings Bryan

I couldn't get any of the ingenue roles when younger because at 5 feet 9 inches with a deep voice I was…

— Olivia Williams

The factory model of education is the wrong model for the 21st century. Today, our schools must prepare all students for college…

— Arne Duncan

As Ive progressed in my career, Ive come to appreciate -- and really value -- the other attributes that define a companys…

— Ursula Burns

It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in…

— Felicity Kendal

I sometimes look at the careers of other... I guess I could call them contemporaries or maybe close artists; you know, the…

— Mike Royer

I used to be embarrassed because I was just a comic-book writer while other people were building bridges or going on to…

— Stan Lee

One of the biggest divides in Canada - I said it in 2006, and I said it right through my political career…

— Michael Ignatieff

You will face boredom and frustration your entire career as artists. You will be very frustrated seeking a voice/style that collectors can…

— Jack White

Eventually, if your career goes higher and higher, that's just how it is, but it's a little frightening. When I was younger…

— Tinsel Korey

A girl's career today doesn't have the same kind of life span, whereas it used to be a collaboration and a partnership…

— Michael Flutie

I've kept the people who've been in my career who I feel are my family. Kathy [Kennedy] had been with me since…

— Steven Spielberg

In the beginning I remember when I would spend three hours a day on MySpace just trying to comment everyone back, and…

— Taylor Swift

I read a lot by female psychoanalyst Lou Andreas-Salomé, who wrote prominent biographies of Nietzsche, Rilke, and Freud because she studied with…

— Laura Marling

Most of these students are so conditioned to success that they become afraid to take risks. They have been taught from a…

— Chris Hedges

I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an…

— Benjamin Bratt

First, therefore, [the Jew] goes about making up to the people for his previous sins against them. He begins his career as…

— Adolf Hitler

It's really interesting - I wanted to become an actress when I was young because I wanted to do romantic comedy. And…

— Julie Benz

It will be great to have a fashion career during and after my DJ career.

— Tiesto

“For success in corporate world, it is essential to identify and seek what you want.”

— Abhishek Ratna

The moment I'm perceived to be even a tiny bit successful, my career will go down the pan.

— Toby Young

'The Atlantic' really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer.

— Nic Pizzolatto

I've moved on with my life and I'm trying to find a path to re-establish my career.

— Paula Broadwell

Dying is to be avoided because it can ruin your whole career.

— Bob Hope

There is not a job Ive held in my career that was held by a woman before me.

— Patricia A. Woertz

A career in the theatre demands so much commitment.

— Jim Dale