Career Quotes
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I still feel that in India we look upon sports as a recreational activity - which it is - but people have to understand that there is a career in sports. It's not just necessary to be a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer, as most of us Indians appear to think that our children should grow up to be.
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I've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.
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Ultimately, my greatest achievement is maintaining my career while sustaining a happy marriage and kids.
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Grads need to remember that it's [showcases] just a jumping off point for their career, not the defining moment.
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I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.
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During my career several people have tried to push me out the door... Nobody has succeeded yet.
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I admire people like Kristen Wiig, who is hilarious but also does a lot of really cool films. I would love to have a career like hers.
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My career path is like crazy paving - it goes all over the place.
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I was hoping I was going to get an ulcer. I was hoping to boost my research career by developing a bleeding ulcer.
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I've always said in my career and in my life I only do things I'm interested in.
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I pretty much admire anybody who has the discipline and the will to make a career out of fighting. It takes buckets of nerve.
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I have become very critical of the whole book award system and could preach on that subject for quite a while, but I do know what an award can mean to a writer early in her career. It can give an essential validation.
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Cartooning is for people who can't quite draw and can't quite write. You combine the two half-talents and come up with a career.
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One of the blessings I've had, really, for my entire career, is working with founders of companies, whether it was Bill Ziff at Ziff Davis or with Jerry Yang and David Filo at Yahoo.
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I've had quite a wide spread of a career. But it's not like I've had to negotiate what Sienna Miller has had to negotiate, or even Felicity Jones, for example.
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I have a career I love more than I can tell you, and I have it because I work incredibly hard pretty much every single day.
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Towards the end of the military service, I had to make what I assume has been the most important decision in my career: to start a residency in clinical medicine, in surgery, which was my favorite choice, or to enroll into graduate school and start a career in scientific research. It was clear to me that I was heading for graduate school.
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There have been a lot of moments in my career when things haven't gone to plan.
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I couldn't get any of the ingenue roles when younger because at 5 feet 9 inches with a deep voice I was always too... genue. My career has completely happened since I was 29.
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I looked to my mom as an example. And this is what I try to tell so many women: that my mom had a career, and she went to the gym. She took care of herself.
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The notion of being on a cop show was appealing, just because it's one of those tick boxes in a career.
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If a journalist shows a facility for praise he's liable to be offered a job in public relations or advertising and the next thing you know he's got a big office, a huge salary and is living in a fine home with a lovely wife and swell kids - another career blown to hell.
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To make a career as an Irish actor, generally it's the case that you move to London. When you make that move, you do tend to stand out.
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I would be involved with music whether I had a career or not. I'm always going to be writing songs and recording them.
