Career Quotes
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Those unknown heroes whose whitened bones have been piously gathered here, and whose green graves we now strew with sweet and beautiful flowers, choice emblems alike of pure hearts and brave spirits, reached, in their glorious career that last highest point of nobleness beyond which human power cannot go. They died for their country.
Frederick Douglass
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Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour.
Martin Amis
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I learned quickly that motivating people would be the most important responsibility of my career.
Rick Pitino
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I don't think there's any disappointment in my career because everything that maybe didn't go my way was a learning experience.
Ali Krieger
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Becoming a mother has helped me to realize who I am aside from my career.
Christina Aguilera
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Stand-up came out of three things. Frustration, necessity and arrogance. I didn't have a great career ahead of me in anything. Someone literally said to me, 'You should try stand-up,' and took me to a venue.
Eric Bana
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Looking back at my career, if there's one word that most people use to describe me, it's intense.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
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When my mother was young, only two professions were open to women ; teaching and nursing. She chose nursing, but the teaching profession was full of talented women like her, confined there in part because they had few career options.
Bruce Rauner
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The NFL has done a great job in giving players information on how to go to a second career after football and how to invest their money while they're playing to ensure when their career is over, that they have something else in place to fall back on. One of the big things the NFL does is promote education in different fields.
Kamerion Wimbley
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Its a really wonderful thing to focus your life on something other than your own personal career and ambition.
Kevin Spacey
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I've never planned my career, really. It just comes along, and I do whatever comes next!
Sylvester McCoy
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You can either look at your career as the things you're going to leave behind, and they have to be executed flawlessly and you have to know exactly what it is that you're doing. Or you can be realistic about the fact that you're going to learn as you practice what you do.
David Fincher
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Being athletic has really become a big part of my career.
Kelly Overton
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As a player, I was fortunate to work with coaching and medical staffs that underscored the importance of utilizing injury prevention exercises, which contributed to my healthy and long playing career.
Cobi Jones
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Cummings' career as a writer - and a painter - was as wobbly as his love life. He tried his hand at playwriting, satirical essays, and even a dance scenario for Lincoln Kirsten.
Billy Collins
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I'm very proud of my business career.
Brad Schneider
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I had a 20-year, stellar government career.
Linda Tripp
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One of the issues the Democrats have to be clear on is the given population distribution across the country. We have to compete everywhere. We have to show up everywhere. We have to work at a grassroots level, something that's been a running thread in my career.
Barack Obama
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I think writing is a part-time career, because otherwise you get a little stale, maybe even self-indulgent, when you have to fill the hours with sentences. I don't think, if I wrote 12 hours a day, my work would be much better.
Cynthia Voigt
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I feel like the sky in my mind is bigger when I meditate. It helps you fight the classic battles we're all fighting: trying to find love, trying to find satisfaction in your career.
James Edward Olliges Jr.
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I'm hungry. Always have been, my whole career.
Andre Ward
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Since the beginning, I have always tried to just be me. There have been moments in my career as a YouTuber where I've recognized that I'm trying to emulate something else, or I'm being heavily influenced by a YouTuber or something like that, and I realize that's not what I want to be putting out.
Tyler Oakley
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When I entered the workforce, I was frustrated. When you're starting your career, somebody else is 'The Man' or 'The Woman.' They go into a room and make the decision, not you. You don't feel empowered. I wanted to break through that.
Mark Pincus
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I know that Kelly Clarkson is going to continue to have an important career. And I believe it will be a lasting one.
Clive Davis