Career Quotes
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When you get to a certain point in your career, it's easy to just phone it in, to get complacent. If you're not careful, you can stop challenging yourself.
Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
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Failure is inherent in the game. So if you don't respond well to adversity, you're probably not going to have a long career.
Theo Epstein
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'Career' is not a musical term.
Simon Rattle
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My greatest ambition is to have a career without becoming a career woman.
Audrey Hepburn
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'Envy the Night' was my first stand alone, the first book I'd written in the third person and I loved the feel of that, and it was different but it was also the same. 'So Cold the River,' I knew, was going to be really different, and that's why I thought about doing it as a novella under a pseudonym, because I didn't want to damage my career.
Michael Koryta
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At this point, I'm spoiled. I've actually had a really blessed career.
Peter Krause
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Every point in your career is a learning lesson - I learned a lot about how much work is required to grow a user base and create a new product. I also learned that things take time and extreme hard work and passion.
Whitney Wolfe Herd
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Are you planning to follow a career in Magical Law, Miss Granger?” asked Scrimgeour. “No, I’m not,” retorted Hermione. “I’m hoping to do some good in the world!
Joanne Rowling
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At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.
Bernard Cornwell
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It's a strange thing to be a so-called alternative cartoonist, because in the early part of my career, I was really tethered to the superhero world.
Adrian Tomine
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Since I don't come from a privileged background, I couldn't afford to be irresponsible with career decisions. I wrote two books alongside my job and resigned only when I realised I can make a living.
Amish Tripathi
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Retiring from writing is to avoid the inevitable bitterness which a writing career is bound to deliver as its end product in almost every case.
Jim Crace
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My dad was career Army.
Reg E. Cathey
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I've been pretty career-focused since moving to New York.
Andrew Rannells
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Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I don't give any one of them true precedent, or true top marks, as opposed to the other two.
Mel Torme
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I enjoy inventing things out of fun. After all, life is a game, not a career.
Brion Gysin
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My advice is to make acting your second career choice.
Amber Tamblyn
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You should always stand up for what you believe and never stand down to promise or protect your career.
Debra L. Lee
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In my short career, I tend not to repeat myself. I have no interest in redoing something. Sometimes that makes people angry, and maybe it's not the best thing for me commercially. But it's the best thing for me artistically, and it's the best thing for my heart.
Mike Posner
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The first time I came here to the U.S. to start a career, it was in 2002 or 2003. Since then, it's been so, so hard.
Eugenio Derbez
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Right now I'm pretty single... My career is my boyfriend.
Christina Aguilera
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I went to the U.S. to start my modeling career at a very young age. So, venturing into films and handling the pressure isn't a big task.
Amy Jackson
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I don't think I would go back and change anything that's happened in my career, because maybe those things were steppingstones to where I am now.
Dr. Dre
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African American women in particular have incredible buying power. Statistically, we go to the movies more than anyone. We have made Tyler Perry's career. His films open with $25 million almost consistently.
Lynn Nottage