Careers Quotes · Page 75

The mission for the day is to encourage students to think beyond traditional career opportunities, prepare for future careers and entrance into…

— Allen Tate

Every time you have to make a choice about anything, think Does this go toward or away from what I want? Always…

— Barbara Sher

I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to…

— Ice Cube

I love the idea of renaissance. If my career is like painting a canvas, I want to have as many different colors…

— Nolan Gerard Funk

The trick is to have a career and have a family. It's like having two dogs that hate each other and you…

— Tom Waits

In a very real way Norman [Lear] godfathered me into my career. He was the best mentor anybody could have ever had.

— Richard Masur

I did ballet, jazz and flamenco from when I was five years old. And my professional career started with dancing in musicals.

— Jennifer Lopez

I love it, but it's not important to me to always be thought of as sexy. I like it when it doesn't…

— Eva Mendes

If you are dating someone famous, you tend to be seen as part of a couple, rather than as an individual. But…

— Max Beesley

I was one of the first to read the 'ER' script and the good news is George Clooney still gives me credit…

— Leslie Moonves

As time goes on and you become more comfortable in your career path, and things are starting to make sense, and it's…

— George Clooney

I do worry a lot about the time it takes for people to get a PhD, about the difficulty of finding employment,…

— Louis Menand

Knowing Latin and having two years of Attic Greek gave me the strong foundation upon which I've built a career. I think…

— Rita Mae Brown

At the fourth grade level, girls at the same percentages of boys say they're interested in careers in engineering or math or…

— Chelsea Clinton

It would be quite unusual for me to get deep into a project and then shitcan it. One of the advantages of…

— Neal Stephenson

I got very lucky to work with Wes Craven, very early on in my career, and continued to work with Wes for…

— Patrick Lussier

I love to teach, I love to draw, I love animals. So I don't feel like I am relying on one thing…

— Sutton Foster

That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are…

— Stephen King

I know I'm not bipolar or schizophrenic, but this career allows you to explore, to take some facets of yourself and spin…

— Jeff Daniels

The ultimate would be to compete in a couple more Olympics, hopefully break some world records and wind up my sports career…

— Marion Jones

I love boxing. I really respect the guys and admire the guys who do it. But, I'm very, very happy with my…

— Holt McCallany

Writing is one of the few careers for which you essentially train yourself, the other two major ones being juggling and pickpocketing.

— Maureen Johnson

I used to think that looking across a pillow into the fabulous face of Buster Keaton would be a more thrilling destiny…

— Anita Loos

Most child actors go through that. Unless you can transition into an adult star, your career is over.

— Morgan Brittany

It's incredible to have been part of fashion history - my whole career has been one big highlight.

— Helena Christensen

Anytime you put your name on a ticket with nothing else attached to it, that's the true testament to where you are…

— Jake Owen

I had always been able to make people laugh in school, so I really developed that and worked on it and I…

— Andy Andrews

Pretty much any time in my career where I worked on television it was usually because of some financial woes or something.

— Brady Corbet

If I could make a career out of drawing little girls hiding in corners, I would do really well.

— Lynne Rae Perkins

And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.

— Jon Secada

I still dream about everything I achieved. I dream about my career, dream about playing baseball, meeting so many people, traveling so…

— Tony Oliva

Until my Yoga practice became the great facilitator of all things in my life, the integration of career, purpose and motherhood felt…

— Brenda Strong

Whatever your career may be, do not let yourselves become tainted by a deprecating and barren scepticism.

— Louis Pasteur

Ive got a ton of stories about Chuck Knox, ... Over the course of my playing career, there was nobody that I…

— Steve Largent

The first observation of cancer cells in the smear of the uterine cervix gave me one of the greatest thrills I ever…

— Georgios Papanikolaou

The fans motivated me. They gave me the incentive to want to play and to want to win and to continue to…

— Arnold Palmer

I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.

— Harrison Ford

I didn't let anyone push me into things I didn't want to do where my career was concerned. So why did I…

— Maureen O'Hara

No, scratch the word "career." Careers are for people who wish to advance. I only want to survive, draw a paycheck.

— Emily Giffin

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

— Clay Aiken