Careers Quotes · Page 61

Its a really wonderful thing to focus your life on something other than your own personal career and ambition.

— Kevin Spacey

I know it's practical for career women, but sneakers with suits? Jesus couldn't possibly weep harder than I did.

— MaryJanice Davidson

I found my way into the indie world a bit late in my career, but it was something that I was really…

— Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Steven Tyler is awesome. He is so humble. He's really sweet and coming from him and his career, it's amazing.

— Ashthon Jones

Education opens the door to everything in terms of having a career and an impact on society and not being a slave…

— Naomie Harris

Roosevelt understands that there are things that are worth surrendering your career for, like defending the country against [Adolf] Hitler.

— Michael Beschloss

There's a beauty of show business. It's the only business you can have a career in when you're dead.

— Tom Waits

Building a career or a company is about living a few years of your life like most people won't so that you…

— Jay Samit

It's a social media time, where you have YouTube and everything it's kind of like you see my career grow up on…

— Young De

First day working with Tom Hiddleston. He is my ideal as an actor: brilliant, reliable, human, decent, open, and friendly. He charmed…

— Jim Beaver

One of the worst elements of Obama's career, which no one talks about, is that he voted twice for a bill that…

— Nat Hentoff

Once you get on stage, everything is right. I feel the most beautiful, complete, fulfilled. I think that's why, in the case…

— Leontyne Price

I wish HP nothing but the best. I think HP is an icon. Those of us who had their careers in the…

— Larry Ellison

There is no doubt that Bronstein's shrewd understanding of chess psychology was crucial to his success. Without it, his impetuous style and…

— Pal Benko

My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just…

— Alexandra Kosteniuk

I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney and Emma Thompson…

— Rachael Harris

The loan crisis and the increasing slashing of funds for students, coupled with the astronomical rise in tuition, represent an unparalleled attack…

— Henry Giroux

I've been in the entertainment industry since I was six-years-old ... As Charles Dickens says, 'It's been the best of times, the…

— Michael Jackson

Immigrants who come to a country are going to lose something, for sure, but they hope to gain a great deal by…

— Nguyen Viet Thang

I wanted to be a real writer, you can put it this way, but I was lazy. So I thought that cinema…

— Albert Serra

I was a 36C or D, and at 5' 1'', I knew that being a small person with big boobs standing in…

— Janeane Garofalo

We've bought into the idea that education is about training and "success," defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and challenge.…

— Chris Hedges

People say that you want to be varied in your career, and I've done so many things and am very appreciative. But,…

— Jim Piddock

In fact, a very similar phrase was invented to account for the sudden transition of wood, metal, plastic and concrete into an…

— Douglas Adams

Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on schedule. The key is to keep working the engines.

— Gary Sinise

What I would say is I've only had one injury in my NBA career that was probably was because my core wasn't…

— Andrew Bogut

I think that the best career that someone can have is one that's reflective of their personal tastes.

— Christina Ricci

The things that hold women back, hold them back from sitting at the boardroom table and they hold women back from speaking…

— Sheryl Sandberg

I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.

— Joni Mitchell

I love everything about entrepreneurship and about owning your career and doing what you love to do.

— Tamera Mowry

I began my career in the arts as a model, before adding my hats as an actress, a photographer, a journalist and…

— Garth Kravits

I feel very privileged. But what I really hope for young people is that they find a career they’re passionate about, something…

— Ellen Ochoa

What I would say to a person who is firm in their faith and wants to go into an acting career: It…

— Angus T. Jones

Did not the artists of the great age of Japanese art change names many times during their careers? I like that; they…

— Henri Matisse

As far as a career legacy, I just want to be known as the guy everyone had to watch for, constantly.

— Denny Hamlin

I made the mistake early in my career, when I moved to Hollywood, of being attracted to actresses. I used to go…

— Mort Sahl

The early part of my career was the 1990s, and I was living in New York working as an actor. It was…

— Gaby Hoffmann

Don't work for fools. It's not worth it. Getting paid less to work for people you like and believe in is much…

— Adam Savage

I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mother.

— Victoria Beckham

The moment a career is on a quantitative downswing, your loathsomeness is sort of attenuated.

— Moby