Career Quotes

• I don't have siblings, which is probably the biggest reason why my parents were able to give the attention to my career that they did.

  

  Christine Lakin
  • Why
  • Parents
  • Attention

• I never planned my career. I never planned to be president of Harvard. People would have thought I was crazy, probably, at the age of 8 or 10 or 20, if I had said that. So what I would say to people planning their careers is to be ready to improvise. Be ready to follow up on opportunities as they unfold.

  

  Drew Gilpin Faust
  • People
  • Up
  • Age

• Everything in my career is my decision - every picture, every outfit. You get one chance at this, and I never saw myself as being a puppet.

  

  Katherine Jenkins
  • Career
  • Decision
  • Picture

• This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail.

  

  Donald Cram
  • Career
  • Question

• It's probably indicative that I was destined for an academic career that I'm 6-5 and I lost the slam-dunk championship to somebody 5-8. I was a lot better at math.

  

  Peter Blair Henry
  • Career
  • Lost
  • Math

• There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical to your values. That's not the call of patriotism.

  

  John Bolton
  • Help
  • Career
  • Patriotic

• My ability to bring different characters to life is what has helped me advance in my career, and I would say as far as looks are concerned, well, I suppose that would be the icing on the cake, but acting comes first and foremost.

  

  Lamman Rucker
  • Life
  • Different
  • Career

• The truth of the matter is that I have lasted a long time, and with it comes both good and bad things. One of the good things is that no one can ever take my career away from me. No one can ever say, 'You can't be in the theater any more.'

  

  Harold Prince
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• Much before I entered films, my dad walked into my room and saw me busy drawing something at 3 A.M. He stood there for some time and said, 'Whatever career choice you make, you are going to be successful.' I'll never forget those words. It gave me the confidence to be who I am today.

  

  Allu Arjun
  • Time
  • Today
  • Words

• I haven't accomplished everything that I want to yet in my career, that's why I'm still playing. I just know that I still have something left inside of me to accomplish, and I don't know exactly what that is. Hopefully, I'll know one day soon.

  

  Mary Pierce
  • Why
  • Career

• I feel fortunate that there was a place like the CFL where I could hone my skill and become a consistent football player and have a nice career.

  

  Darren Flutie
  • Nice
  • Football
  • Player

• You'll be able to find many unemployed actors, you know? I've been gifted a wonderful career, and to now be able to find myself in a place where someone can look at the course I've charted and say, 'I can do that,' or 'I can do even better!' is a privileged position to be in.

  

  Chin Han
  • Career

• I first heard Laura Branigan sing live in my brother Nesuhi's apartment, where we had gone because he had a very good piano. I immediately realized that she had a great pop voice, in the classical sense. Laura had an instinctive feel for music and melody, and her delivery was sensational. Everybody at Atlantic knew that we had a winner in this young lady, and she came through with great hits that will be remembered for many years to come. I consider Laura to be one of my best signings, and I am proud to have had such a great singer in my career in the record business. We miss her dearly.

  

  Ahmet Ertegun
  • Good
  • Great
  • Music

• I stopped acting a long time ago and my primary career has been producing-directing film.

  

  Peter Billingsley
  • Time
  • Long
  • Career

• 'To Die For,' with Nicole Kidman, is great - her desire to be a part of news, how she uses news to further her career and how it can drive you insane. I love that movie.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Great
  • Love
  • She

• I led the state in defensive interceptions my senior year, with seven in nine games. Then I went to Montana to play basketball and found out quickly that my college career wasn't going to work out how I'd envisioned it.

  

  Jeff Ament
  • Work
  • College
  • Basketball

• I don't have a partner, so I take care of the mortgage by myself, and I was thinking, 'Oh God, I'm going to have to sell the house or find a new career.' I was not in a good place, but it was a real spur to get 'The Girl on the Train' right. I had to nail it and do it really well. It really concentrates the mind, that kind of thing.

  

  Paula Hawkins
  • Good
  • God
  • Thinking

• What I did before in my career you can pretty much throw out the window. Out of sight, out of mind.

  

  Jake Arrieta
  • Mind
  • Pretty
  • Career

• Dancing is a tough career, but I'm glad I spent it at the Royal Ballet.

  

  Deborah Bull
  • Career
  • Ballet

• When I stopped touring in the early '80s for a few years, it was a mistake looking back. I lost touch with my audience in a way and I think that was a bad career move.

  

  Bryan Ferry Roxy Music
  • Bad
  • Lost
  • Mistake

• 'Sabotage' was an opportunity. That was journeyman work, but the irony is I learned more off that movie on what filmmaking is and isn't than everything else combined. A lot of lessons, and it will impact me for the rest of my career.

  

  David Ayer
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Opportunity

• If I never do anything else in this career as a member of Congress, I'm gonna make somebody pay for what they've done to my community and to my people!

  

  Maxine Waters
  • People
  • Done
  • Community

• Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Career
  • Beginning

• Those of you who are not aware of my brilliant career as a stand up comic, I'm not aware of it either so we might well wonder what we're doing here.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Up
  • Wonder
  • Standup

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