Career Quotes

• I started my career as an urban planner, working for the city, doing what I would call 'do-gooder' things, particularly for low-income neighborhoods.

  

  Jorge M. Perez
  • Career
  • City

• Pretty much from 1979 through 1988, the backbone of my career was the theater. Working on Broadway a couple of times, working off-Broadway, and also doing a lot of regional theater. Make no mistake, I lived very frugally. I had an apartment that was real cheap. I would get two or three jobs per season, and in between I'd be on unemployment.

  

  Delroy Lindo
  • Real
  • Pretty
  • Couple

• Local markets for literary fiction remain underdeveloped; the metropolis often holds out the only real possibility of a professional writing career.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Professional

• The whole idea is you can't sit around and do nothing. You have to get up and start living one day at a time. That's what I did my entire career. You can't sit around and say, 'Oh, poor me. Nobody likes me. Nobody is giving me a job.' You have to get up and go. If you sit at home and do nothing, that is what is going to happen.

  

  Darlene Love
  • Up
  • Time
  • Home

• The notion of being on a cop show was appealing, just because it's one of those tick boxes in a career.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Career
  • Boxes
  • Just Because

• There were times in my career I went a little further than I wanted because of expectations. Doing certain things onstage when children were in the audience, wearing certain clothes, singing certain lyrics.

  

  Cheryl James
  • Children
  • Singing
  • Lyrics

• I don't go to New York. I don't go to parties. I just do my business and study nature. My career is 28 years in an obscure art school, with limited staff and no perks. All I am is a teacher.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • School
  • Art
  • Business

• The 'Daughter of the Regiment' that I did in Boston was vintage Sarah Caldwell, which is to say it was brilliant. Before my career was over, I'm sure I sang the role of Marie at least a hundred times, often in productions that cost a fortune, but none touched hers.

  

  Beverly Sills
  • Career
  • Daughter

• Back in the day, when I started, you were still allowed to make mistakes. You got to make your mistakes in public, in a way. I think the world was a more forgiving place when I started my career, in the sense that we got time and space to develop as a writer.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Time
  • World
  • Space

• Assume any career move you make won't go smoothly. They won't. But don't look back.

  

  Andy Grove
  • Career
  • Assume
  • Smoothly

• Early on my career, I figured out that I just have to write the book I have to write at that moment. Whatever else is going on in the culture is just not that important. If you could get the culture to write your book, that would be great. But the culture can't write your book.

  Colson Whitehead
  • Great
  • Important
  • Book

• For some reason, I find that in the course of my career I've worked with more women than most men have.

  

  Chris O'Dowd
  • Men
  • Women
  • Career

• When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Work
  • Home
  • Business

• I've been criticized my whole career. When I got drafted in the second round in the green room, they said I wouldn't even make it in the N.B.A.

  

  Rashard Lewis
  • Round
  • Criticized
  • Drafted

• We have no other alternative than independence, or the most ignominious and galling servitude. The legions of our enemies thicken on our plains; desolation and death mark their bloody career; whilst the mangled corpses of our countrymen seem to cry out to us as a voice from Heaven.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Career
  • Death
  • Heaven

• Coming from a YouTube perspective, a lot of times you kind of limit yourself and think, 'Oh, artists from the real world wouldn't want to work with someone who's made their career on YouTube.' But more and more, I'm realizing that artists from both sides are learning that we can benefit from each other.

  

  Lindsey Stirling
  • World
  • Work
  • Real

• I've been getting pulled from newspapers for my entire career.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Career
  • Been
  • Getting

• I was not a very good mother. I was always running out to do a movie or something. If I had to do it over, I would either have a career or children. I wouldn't do both unless I could work in my home. I spent 20 years feeling guilty, which is not a very nice emotion.

  

  Joanne Woodward
  • Good
  • Work
  • Children

• Every year is beautiful, and I try to appreciate each moment in my career, but 30 was definitely one of my best.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Beautiful
  • Best
  • Moment

• I had a great tennis career. I have no regrets. But to find peace with yourself, and to finally be with your family - I'm probably the happiest guy in the world.

  

  Bjorn Borg
  • World
  • Great
  • Family

• A huge part of my career and how I want to participate in the world is being unapologetically myself and being honest and vulnerable.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • World
  • Want
  • Myself

• Race and gender definitely came up, occasionally, in my life at work. But the bigger challenge that I had was age. I took roles earlier in my career than people expected, and so a lot of what I got was, 'Do you actually know enough to do this?'

  

  Ursula Burns
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I don't want to only play the leading man for the rest of my career.

  

  Ansel Elgort
  • Career
  • Rest

• I spent the first 18 years of my career at AT&T, and it was a wonderful place that kept me moving all the time. I mean, I started off as entry level a position as you can get at AT&T.

  

  Dan Schulman
  • Time
  • Career
  • Moving

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