Career Quotes

• Psmith is the only thing in my literary career which was handed to me on a plate with watercress round it, thus enabling me to avoid the blood, sweat and tears inseparable from an author's life.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Life
  • Tears
  • Author

• Everyone wants to be happy - people find happiness in different ways. While you want to pursue your career 100 percent, I think it is very hard to give 100 percent in something else. It's important to find this balance, and priorities change throughout life.

  

  Ana Ivanovic
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• Why, over her political career has Wall Street been a major - the major campaign contributor to Hillary Clinton? You know, maybe they're dumb and they don't know what they're going to get, but I don't think so.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • Why
  • Political
  • Wall

• When I came back to Hong Kong in 1992, I decided to pursue a new career challenge.

  

  Pollyanna Chu
  • Career
  • Challenge

• I didn't think of football growing up. This wasn't my career, something I chose. It was something I was picked in.

  

  Jason Pierre-Paul
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Football

• 'Dr. Quinn' came along when I turned 40, so my career actually peaked then.

  

  Jane Seymour
  • Career

• Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest, pound-for-pound, ever. He fought most of his career with just one loss, and that was to me. He had 131 fights with one loss.

  

  Jake LaMotta
  • Career

• I’ve never planned any part of my career-except being an artist. And I was pushed into that corner because I thought being an artist was the only way to have a little freedom.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Career
  • Freedom

• I do have to admit that teaching, composing, and editing is a bit easier than sitting at the organ or harpsichord for seven straight hours, but I do love to do it anyway! I have found my career changing over the years.

  

  Barbara Harbach
  • Career
  • Teaching
  • Changing

• If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

  

  Jane Fonda
  • Career

• I'm not just coming here for a payday. I'm not an old guy at the end of my career looking for a payday. I've got a title to keep.

  

  Liam Smith
  • Guy
  • Career

• When I first left university, I thought about going into the private sector. But I discovered when I went to interview that I could only have a career in the back office, or doing HR. The attitude was, 'My dear lady, you cannot possibly think about going on the board.'

  

  Pauline Neville-Jones
  • Career
  • Attitude

• I was doing specialisation in advertising. I had no interest in acting. One of my friends, who was doing specialisation in films, made a short film casting me. Luckily, I got a break, and my acting career took off.

  

  Kratika Sengar
  • Friends
  • Career

• But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have to work on your songwriting and you have to work on being able to play in front of people, I think. That performance is how you create the groundwork for a lasting career.

  

  Amy Ray
  • People
  • Work
  • Country

• Throughout my career, I have discovered and rediscovered a simple truth.It is this: the ability to concentrate single-mindedly on your most important task, to do it well and to finish it completely, is the key to great success, achievement, respect, status and happiness in life.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Great
  • Important

• One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn't have had a career.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Truth
  • Career
  • Respected

• I started my career wanting to make a 'James Bond' movie, and I couldn't get hired! I made 'The Bourne Identity,' and ultimately the impact of that film was that it changed the 'James Bond' franchise.

  

  Doug Liman
  • Movie
  • Career
  • Identity

• I have another aspect of my career where I'm a scholar of Yiddish and Hebrew literature, and I'll say that when you study Yiddish literature, you know a whole lot about forgotten writers. Most of the books on my shelves were literally saved from the garbage. I am sort of very aware of what it means to be a forgotten artist in that sense.

  

  Dara Horn
  • Career
  • Study
  • Literature

• 'Party Down' was one of the most magical, special experiences of my professional career. Also special in my personal life, too. I made really good friends, and I had just a great time, and it was a great part.

  

  Ken Marino
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• I don't know [whether] if I didn't get paid, or my career didn't keep going where it goes, if I would keep doing music.

  

  Rashard Bradshaw
  • Music
  • Career

• I have a growing resume, but it's because I'm very selective. There are a lot of actors in my position that are like me: they have an opportunity to make a lot of money early in their career, and they do that, and after that, there's nothing to sustain that. There's no art or interest in your craft from the people that want to see you.

  

  Elijah Kelley
  • People
  • Money
  • Art

• 'Step Brothers' was like a reward for going through my whole career and somehow surviving.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • Career

• The whole music industry has completely and totally changed from how it was. It's very, very different. When we started, there were loads of record company people throwing money at musicians, and that did give people a long term career.

  

  Susan Ann Sulley The Human League
  • Career
  • Changed
  • Music Industry

• I want the type of career where I can come back to theater. Theater is my home. Theater, to me, is like ballet for dancers. It's my foundation.

  

  Condola Rashad
  • Home
  • Career
  • Ballet

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