Careers Quotes · Page 64

I love Barbra Streisand and Sade who've both had careers in soul and I want my music to have that timeless quality…

— Jessie Ware

Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids) is a gimmick comedian who has devoted her short career to being obese and obnoxious with equal success.

— Rex Reed

If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a…

— Clay Aiken

The internet has been incredible in regards to the selling of my CD. I don't know how it's affected or will affect…

— Helen Slater

It's like a garden: Whatever you water the most will do the best. At some point, you decide whether you'll water your…

— Jewel

If you haven't had a major fail in your career - face-plant level - you aren't trying hard enough.

— Sallie Krawcheck

Country music fans are extremely passionate and loyal. It seems that country artists have longer-lasting careers because the fans stick with the…

— Miranda Lambert

I'm convinced that had I not changed my name, I don't think I would have had quite the same career curve that…

— Ben Kingsley

I sort of dreamed about directing before my career as an actor took off. I've directed stage before in so many capacities…

— Justin Timberlake

Maybe I'm naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do…

— Benjamin Walker

Literature offers the thrill of minds of great clarity wrestling with the endless problems and delights of being human. To engage with…

— Jonathan Stroud

In general, an ideal partner is (a) open and nondefensive, (b) honest and nonduplicitous, (c) affectionate and easy-going, (d) mentally and physically…

— Robert W. Firestone

I haven't had such an overwhelmingly positive response as I have from The Normal Heart directly to me. And it's a blessing.…

— Mark Ruffalo

I couldn't understand her [my mother's] wiring, all the time. I couldn't understand how she denied herself pleasure and enjoyment in life.…

— Dan Fogelman

To tell you the truth I am hard put to think of anyone who's career was affected significantly by making all those…

— Dabney Coleman

I hate saying that youth is wasted on the young since it's so f**king stupid, but I think you realize if you're…

— Mike Dirnt

But there was no hiding from Conscience. Not in new homes and new cars. In travel. In meditation or frantic activity. In…

— Louise Penny

“Archaeology is a deeply conservative discipline and I have found that archaeologists, no matter where they are working, have a horror of…

— Graham Hancock

“The source to low self-esteem is the lack of control you feel you have in your life. If you spend your life…

— Shannon L. Alder

Common education standards are essential for producing the educated work force America needs to remain globally competitive. This voluntary state lead effort…

— Craig R. Barrett

There appears to be a disturbing trend in this nation to try to force single moms to choose between their children and…

— Gloria Allred

If you don't know what career you'd change to, I've come to believe in starting with your values. What do you care…

— Marty Nemko

We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And…

— William James

“I would go to parties and say I was an editor, and people, especially women – and that was important to me…

— Peter Ferry

I got a chance to work with Stallone and De Niro - pretty much sums it up for me. You can tell…

— Kevin Hart

My entire high school career - my entire school career - I've been like three feet taller than everyone in my grade.

— Karlie Kloss

The whole goal for me with my career is just follow good projects and good parts and challenge myself as much as…

— Noel Fisher

I abused my body so much throughout my career that I am literally held together by glue. The stuff I took thickens…

— Sylvester Stallone

A job is how you make money. A career is how you make your mark. A calling is how you acknowledge a…

— Deepak Chopra

I have so much satisfaction in my life. I have a beautiful wife and the great stimulation of an interesting career. I'm…

— Brendan Fraser

Every one must be familiar with the often expressed opinion, that, as a practical politician, Mr. Mill's career was essentially a failure.

— Millicent Fawcett

Three-quarters of our sites - Kotaku, Gawker, Jezebel, Deadspin, Gizmodo, Lifehacker - are led by editors who built their careers within Gawker…

— Nick Denton

A born writer is born scrofulous; his career is an accident dictated by physical or circumstantial disabilities.

— Dylan Thomas

What is the recipe for successful achievement? Choose a career you love. Give it the best there is in you. Seize your…

— Benjamin Franklin

People are so obsessed with making their careers and having a big house; then you realize that kills your dreams. It even…

— Stephanie Szostak

My advice to any young person at the beginning of their career is to try to look for the mere outlines of…

— Hans Selye

Begin to break limitation in your home, business, career and spiritual life, in Jesus’ name!

— T. B. Joshua

Everyone seemed to be doing well except me and my career. And my accent was no helping me any.

— Desi Arnaz

I am convinced that in my own career I could usually have hit 30 points higher if I had made a specialty…

— Johnny Evers

I only wish to climb even higher during the rest of my career bc with the power of Team Grimmie, I won't…

— Christina Grimmie