Careers Quotes · Page 54

Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.

— Mary McCarthy

I've gotten to do a lot of stuff, traveled, worked hard at my career.

— Laura Lippman

My career doesn't depend on painting Bill Clinton.

— Nelson Shanks

Our founding fathers never intended that Congress be a career.

— Rush Limbaugh

Great careers are getting easier to find and audition for, but harder to keep.

— Tucker Max

[My breasts] had a pretty good career. I’ve basically been tagging along for the ride.

— Pamela Anderson

My initial career, really, as a baby, was as a singer.

— Mel Torme

I have a kind of objective luxury about my career.

— Martin Short

When they've tortured and scared you for 20 odd years, then they expect you to pick a career.

— John Lennon

Even now, there are young actors who want careers as romantic leading men, and the best thing is not to reveal you're…

— Ian Mckellen

I don't know, just scripts randomly appeal to me. I'm not looking specifically at any genre.

— Robert Pattinson

I wanted to create clothes for women in their 40s and 50s and 60s who have careers and are sexy and don't…

— Joseph Altuzarra

I uprooted my life from Australia and came over to America with the idea of pursuing my acting career. I wasn't really…

— Penelope Mitchell

I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy…

— Anonymous

Our careers aren't paths so much as landscapes that are navigated. We're free agents, entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs -- each with our own unique…

— Keith Ferrazzi

I loved working with Jamie Lee Curtis, and I felt she was a wonderful actress even that early in her career.

— Donald Pleasence

My father was furious with me, absolutely furious. I'm sure he wouldn't have been so mad if I'd have volunteered to join…

— Mick Jagger

I seem to have been able to make a career out of doing what I feel like doing, so why not keep…

— Jane Campion

All women on earth-- and men, too for that matter-- hope for the kind of love that transforms us, raises us up…

— Lisa See

People with film careers get a whole onslaught of people they spend 12 hours a day with every three months. It's like…

— Christine Elise

I was such a huge fan of Harry Potter books. That's how I got into it. I had never really thought about…

— Rupert Grint

First, there's the job - where the goal is simply to earn a living and support your family. Then there's the career…

— Robert Bella

It's much easier to have a diversified career as an electronic musician than it is as a drummer. Nothing against drummers. If…

— Moby

People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer…

— Gary Oldman

I often wonder what my life would be like without the use of a library. Throughout my education and career, public and…

— David Horowitz

“I'd known since girlhood that I wanted to be a book editor. By high school, I'd pore over the acknowledgments section of…

— Bridie Clark

I do have health insurance (don't fine me, [Barack] Obama!). And while we agree that career is important, my mother has an…

— Kate Siegel

It wasn't until I moved to Nashville that I realized what an amazing community it is. It's the thing I've been missing…

— Sheryl Crow

I think this..."perfectionist gene" that too many young women have holds them back, and instead they should be really aiming for "good…

— Hillary Clinton

The trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man. Each has its own wrongs. Each finds…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of my career ambitions was fulfilled working with John [Hurt]. I loved his work long before I ever had the idea…

— Gary Oldman

Norman Rockwell spent his career painting pictures that helped people understand their own feelings...pictures that enriched their own experiences and celebrated their…

— Bill Bonner

The entrepreneur builds an enterprise; the technician builds a job.

— Michael Gerber

“Careers increasingly come with a reboot button, and companies that realize this early possess a competitive talent advantage”

— Gyan Nagpal

I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference…

— Anonymous

I have a music career as well, so I was going to either be an actress or a musician. Then, I did…

— Zooey Deschanel

I kind of look at my modeling career and the Alfred Hitchcock years as stepping stones to what I'm doing now.

— Tippi Hedren

Everyone who was here [Sheraton Universal Hotel] when I won still works here, so the two biggest moments in my career are…

— Zach Anner

It's hard to give a career like this up, when I tell my wife I'm going to the office, and it's the…

— Karch Kiraly

I'm obsessive about my job and I want it to be as great as it can possibly be, especially right now in…

— Patrick Heusinger