Joseph Brodsky Quotes

The career of an esthete was nothing I ever intended.

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• I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Work
  • School
  • Career

• I thought that I'd have a briefcase-and-power-suit career.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Power
  • Career
  • Thought

• We want our students to graduate from high school, but we want them to graduate with a plan, whether it's college or career.

  

  Kate Brown
  • School
  • High
  • Career

• Throughout his long career, Washington earned the adulation not merely of ordinary people but of the other luminaries whom we now hail as 'founding fathers.'

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • People
  • Long
  • Career

• I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Book

• We've got a long career ahead of us and it's going to be great. Trust me.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Great
  • Long
  • Career

• I love the game so much. I've been penalized. I've been fined. I have some regrets in my career. But for those four hours on Sunday, you can be free and just let it all go. Retiring had nothing to do with football; it had to do with my family.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Family
  • Game
  • Career

• When I started training to fight, it was more out of boredom than anything. I was looking for more things to do. I started with boxing, and my coaches told me I had a lot of potential and that I should consider making it a career. I was like, 'Whatever.' I was just 15 at the time, and I never imagined something like that.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Time
  • Career
  • Me

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

  

  Laura Lippman
  • Career
  • Hard
  • Stuff

• I spend 90 percent of my time saying no, and my accountant yells at me for it, but when I started in this business, I wanted my career to have legs.

  

  Omar Epps
  • Time
  • Business
  • Career

• I'd hate to be a songwriter starting a career today.

  

  Otis Blackwell
  • Today
  • Career
  • Hate

• There's a lot of craft that goes into achieving a hit song - at the beginning of your career, you're usually more inspiration than craft, and you get great when those intersect. A skilled songwriter can get you to that intersection.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Career
  • Song
  • Inspiration

• I think I didn't know whether I wanted to keep acting deep into my career. I kept trying to see if I would be able to do it well enough to make that part of my destiny or part of what I was supposed to do.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Trying
  • Career
  • Deep

• I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Work
  • Career
  • Me

• Myself and David, we both love art. We have a lot of respect for Damien Hirst and Julian Schnabel, and we've met them both, and they're very interesting characters. I also have a lot of respect for the working women out there. As you know, it's not easy when you're looking after children and you have a career as well.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Art
  • Know
  • Respect

• Well, I've thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seriously consider getting another job, I don't know what I'd do.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Job
  • Career
  • Know

• If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it's cool that happens.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Great
  • Career
  • Cool

• The '80s was all about this idea that women could have it all. You could have a career, and you could have a husband, and you could have children.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Women
  • Children
  • Career

• Any time anyone says anything nice about me, whether it's Lady Gaga or your neighbor, it's a nice feeling, I'm very grateful for it. It's very helpful for your career. Every time someone says something complimentary it introduces you to their audience. It gives you credibility.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Time
  • Career
  • Feeling

• Chicago, with its big newspapers and major broadcasting stations, couldn't have been a better city to start a journalism career.

  

  Irv Kupcinet
  • Career
  • City
  • Start

• You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good.

  

  Hans Bender
  • Good
  • God
  • Mind

• There's a tremendous amount of humor... in very unexpected places.

  

  Holly Hunter

• The Divine mind is as visible in its full energy of operation on every lowly bank and mouldering stone as in the lifting of the pillars of heaven, and settling the foundation of the earth.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Energy
  • Heaven
  • Divine Mind

• The career of an esthete was nothing I ever intended.

  

  Joseph Brodsky
  • Career