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.
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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.
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The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My whole career I'm used to playing a lot of games.
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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.
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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.
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If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it's cool that happens.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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Chicago, with its big newspapers and major broadcasting stations, couldn't have been a better city to start a journalism career.
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At the beginning of my career I was going through a really weird phase of dressing in boys clothes. I would only wear one American Apparel T-shirt and shorts and brogues the whole year round. Not the same T-shirt, obviously, but one style of American Apparel T-shirt. I think I was going through a tomboy stage.
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I love the energy of an independent film set. No one is there for the money. Everyone is there 'cause they really want to be there. It makes all the difference in the world. It's without ego and agenda, other than just wanting to fulfill a creative dream.
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I just wanted to be a businessman, and to me, the best way to understand business was to be an accountant.
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I'm very cheap. My friends hate me.
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I think good taste is completely subjective. If you enjoy something, that's great! Enjoy it, and don't let anyone tell you not to.
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Another aspect of our work is multimedia teleconferencing.
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Prudence, patience, labor, valor; these are the stars that rule the career of mortals.
