Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
Prudence, patience, labor, valor; these are the stars that rule the career of mortals.
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I thought that I'd have a briefcase-and-power-suit career.
Rachel Nichols
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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
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The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.
Dan Simmons
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I'm at this point in my career where I'm trying to step away from the realm of fine arts, because I think it's a very exclusive, very restrictive place to be. What I want to be able to do is to change the lives of people with the same materials they deal with every day.
Vik Muniz
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Over my career, I've reinvented myself numerous times. I covered the Pentagon, the State Department, and the CIA. I wrote about labor wars, trade wars and real wars. I chronicled a nuclear plant meltdown and the defeat of Communism. I co-founded a couple of media businesses.
Walt Mossberg
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I've had young women come to me and say that before they watched 'Voyager' it didn't really occur to them that they could be successful in a higher position in the field of science; girls going to MIT, girls pursuing astrophysics with a view to a career in NASA.
Kate Mulgrew
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My whole career I'm used to playing a lot of games.
Ed Belfour
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Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
Pablo Picasso
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My career was quite unusual, so my main advice to someone interested in a career similar to my own is to remain open to change and new opportunities. I like to tell students that the jobs I took after my Ph.D. were not in existence only a few years before.
Nancy Roman
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I will never forget how I have been treated here by the fans, the club and the owners, and nothing would give me greater pleasure than to finish my career as a Manchester City player.
Yaya Toure
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If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it's cool that happens.
Taylor Swift
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I spent twelve years training for a career that was over in a week. Joe Namath spent one week training for a career that lasted twelve years.
Caitlyn Jenner
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Local markets for literary fiction remain underdeveloped; the metropolis often holds out the only real possibility of a professional writing career.
Pankaj Mishra
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I'm an athlete, so I'm very interested in making the sport as safe as possible - just for my own career longevity.
Ted Ligety
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I've been kind of lucky. I've always just kind of followed whatever my passion was, and that seems to have led me to better places than if I had followed some career trajectory, which I wouldn't even know how to start.
Nat Wolff
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I was blessed with a long career where I won gold medals for myself and my country. Nothing stands out as a disappointment.
Gail Devers -
I look at what I've gone through in my career and I really shouldn't be talking to you now. I should be dead ten times over.
Jack Wild
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To tell you the truth I am hard put to think of anyone who's career was affected significantly by making all those phone calls and I must be wrong. I must be wrong! Because it has just got to pay off!
Dabney Coleman
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And this Thing I saw! How can I describe it? A monstrous tripod, higher than many houses, striding over the young pine trees, and smashing them aside in its career; a walking engine of glittering metal, striding now across the heather; articulate ropes of steel dangling from it, and the clattering tumult of its passage mingling with the riot of the thunder.
H. G. Wells
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For most people, the major hurdle in grasping modern insights into the nature of the universe is that these developments are usually phrased using mathematics.
Brian Greene
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In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
Franz Kafka
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We've lived through a time in which people have felt they could forge their own future and make a better world. We may not have achieved our dreams in the time frame that we once believed was realistic, but the magnitude of what is yet to be achieved only confirms the importance of our commitment. Knowing this, we can't stop now.
Peter Yarrow
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Nobody moves on purpose to Detroit.
Manoj Bhargava
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Prudence, patience, labor, valor; these are the stars that rule the career of mortals.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton