Career Quotes
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Naturally, it was easier for me to envision becoming a novelist than it is for most people. I had two great in-house teachers; I had parents who considered a career in the arts a real possibility rather than a dreamy arrow shot into the sky.
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When I look back on my career, like I said earlier, I had some mammoth footsteps to follow in my father, my Uncle Bobby and my family.
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I've learned to think in terms of having a long career. Actors can have very long careers that last until the day we die, but there will be moments when you'll feel like you're a failure or when you're disappointed in yourself.
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I used to always want to play the perfect match, and this meant not losing a point. The realisation came around the time I was 19 years old, in the French Open final in 2007. This was a key period in my career. I was told I was going for too many winners, which was affecting my game.
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If I give up my career as a skater simply because I fear I won't show my best performance, I would be really sorry later in life.
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While a lab director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing out the best ideas of the broader scientific community. I learned this early in my career while I was leading the construction of the SPEAR facility.
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My acting stopped being about disguise and became about truth which suits the camera, so my film career took off when I came out.
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What I did before in my career you can pretty much throw out the window. Out of sight, out of mind.
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I wanted to make money very fast, and I was completely confused after college. I didn't know what career options I had. And then I had this entry point in the film industry, and I thought, 'If this is where the fast money is going to come from, let's see how it goes.'
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I will do 'Dancing with the Stars' when my career dips.
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I wore myself out physically and mentally over my career, and I couldn't be there for my daughters in ways I should have been.
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I have a confession: I'm not a man of simplicity. I spent my entire early career making complex stuff. Lots of complex stuff.
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Do you want a successful career or a close relationship with your family? Both! Do you want a focus on business or have fun and play? Both! Do you want money or meaning in your life? Both! Do you want to earn a fortune or do the work you love? Both! Poor people always choose one, rich people choose both.
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I loved working with Jamie Lee Curtis, and I felt she was a wonderful actress even that early in her career.
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When I got to college, I discovered how many incredible opportunities NASA offered students pursuing a career in the space industry.
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I don't think children have competed with my career, they have clarified it. My children ground me. They make me honest.
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I've been in the shadows my whole career.
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I would love to be in a zone concept every once in a while. Probably later on in my career.
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I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career.
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Working with limited resources is an excellent way to hone skills that will serve you well for the rest of your career. You will prioritize profitability from the start.
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If you were looking at where you would like your career to go, then you would have to cherry pick The Stones. People love coming to see them. They are it, they are the most definitive rock n roll band ever.
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That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house.
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I naively thought I would quit television writing, move up to Seattle, my novel would come out, and then I'd have a novel writing career, and so I found myself really stuck in this very poisonous self-pitying state and felt like I'd never write again. And I blamed Seattle for that.
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I used to go to the library all the time when I was kid. As a teenager, I got a book on how to write jokes at the library, and that, in turn, launched my comedy career.
