Careers Quotes · Page 9

Any time you're a type, your career's over.

— Shia LaBeouf

Most music careers slowly but surely go down.

— Malik Bendjelloul

I need my career. That's what validates me.

— Anita Baker

God has been with me in my whole career.

— Ronald Isley

Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.

— Sheryl Sandberg

Opportunity is in the person, not the job.

— Zig Ziglar

I have no particular career agenda.

— Benjamin Bratt

I have had a career in public service.

— Scott McClellan

Having a baby is a disaster for your career. I don't think there's any sympathy.

— Mariella Frostrup

I have never taken my career seriously. My only ambition was to grow as an actor.

— Val Kilmer

I pursued a theatre career, and Hollywood came calling.

— Len Cariou

The courage to care about your people, your clients, and your career.

— David Maister

I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life.

— Chris Tucker

You just got ta believe, i have never been a quitter in my life or in my career.

— Carmelo Anthony

“With dark raven paper and twinkling white ink, I wrote my heart in the night’s sky.”

— Shannon L. Alder

You can take art, you can have a baby, you can have a career.

— Regina Spektor

For the first time in Rex Ryan’s career as a head coach, his offense is now better than his defense.

— Sterling Sharpe

I lost my job and started painting houses with a friend. The marriage had ended about the same time the career did.

— John Dufresne

Boxing was the only career where I wouldn't have to start out at the bottom. I had a good resume.

— Sugar Ray Leonard

My baseball career was a long, long initiation into a single secret: At the heart of all things is love.

— Sadaharu Oh

I would be hard-pressed to look back at anything that I have done in my career and not say, 'I would have…

— Sam Huntington

I've had a very interesting career. I get to do amazing things and work with amazing people and travel and learn languages…

— Gwyneth Paltrow

Nobody in the world knew about Megan Fox until I found her and put her in 'Transformers.' I like to think that…

— Michael Bay

[On the start of her career as a milliner:] When I was six I made my mother a little hat -- out…

— Lilly Dache

But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have…

— Amy Ray

Texas is a national leader in education reform and student achievement. Through our college- and career-ready standards and assessments, strong school accountability,…

— Rick Perry

I made my career off posing in swimsuits and doing all the swimsuit issues and posters, but I will tell you that…

— Cindy Margolis

Africa is not fulfilling people's hopes and aspirations. African leaders have not had an agenda that included governing Africa so that people…

— Ama Ata Aidoo

Reporters have a different point of view and a different job. Consequently, to the extent that you can help them turn in…

— Roger Ailes

From 1970 onwards, our culture told both sexes that individual expression was paramount. And for women, that was defined as the right…

— Naomi Wolf

Once I got done with my career, I knew in my soul that I don't have any negative thoughts about myself. I…

— Diamond Dallas Page

Men? Sure, I've known lots of them. But I never found one I liked well enough to marry. Besides, I've always been…

— Mae West

My general rule, which I have followed throughout my coaching career, is that everyone doesn't necessarily get treated the same way, because…

— Karch Kiraly

By the same token, frozen dinners, a microwave oven, a dishwasher, and an illegal immigrant hired to clean the house and take…

— Robert Wuthnow

Tweeting is something you can do wherever you are, on your phone, on the computer, in an airport lounge. It's easy to…

— Boy George

This killer [in Orlando] was interviewed by the FBI three times and I'm not going to second guess what career law enforcement…

— Hillary Clinton

Early in my career, a critic said that I needed to "explain" the irony in my work, suggesting that I needed to…

— Cindy Sherman

Early in my career when we went to golf tournaments and charity dinners I noticed businessmen and executives would give the players…

— Tie Domi

When I was younger, I thought, 'Ok, I'm supposed to do this project because it'll help my career,' but that didn't work…

— James Franco

Anything from making a mistake on an experiment that would ruin some scientist on earth's experiment - career, potentially - to doing…

— Sally Ride