Career Quotes

• As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• For the record, in my long career, I've never knowingly exposed classified information in an inappropriate manner.

  

  James R. Clapper
  • Long
  • Career

• The biggest honor of my career was when I won R&B Artist of the Year back in the 1970s. I look at that as a major honor.

  

  Daryl Franklin Hohl
  • Career
  • Honor

• My approach to the job can be summed up pretty simply - I never viewed politics as my career. Important, yes, worthy of intense commitment, of course - but it was not my whole life. … I saw politics as a way to make a contribution and satisfy my penchant for public policy, but not as something I couldn't live without.

  

  Angus King
  • Life
  • Up
  • Important

• I had a unique circumstance in which my career was associated with George W. Bush, who went straight to the top. I went to work for him in October of 1993. So my whole identity in national politics is associated with this president, and you know, I kind of want to leave it that way. It's not tugging at me to go do the '08 cycle.

  

  Dan Bartlett
  • Work
  • Politics
  • Unique

• I thought 'The Well' was going to launch my career, but nothing happened.

  

  Maidie Norman
  • Career
  • Thought
  • Nothing

• I had spent so many years on 'Law & Order: UK' being a downtrodden detective standing on Hammersmith Bridge at six o'clock in the morning, being rained and snowed on, and I thought, 'I'll have a bit of a change of direction in my career and go and do 'SunTrap' in Gran Canaria.'

  

  Bradley Walsh
  • Law
  • Morning
  • Bridge

• Your child probably won't get into the Ivy League or win a sports scholarship. At age 24, he might be back in his childhood bedroom, in debt, after a mediocre college career. Raise him so that, if that happens, it will still have been worth it.

  

  Pamela Druckerman
  • Age
  • College
  • Sports

• I don't want to be an action star, an action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Life
  • Action
  • Star

• When you want a raise, you're not only going in saying: 'I want more money.' You're going in and saying: 'Here's what I want out of my career. Here's what I accomplished. Here's what I said I was going to do. Here's what I've done. Not only do I deserve more money, but I want to get to here on my career.'

  

  Brian Krzanich
  • Money
  • Done
  • Career

• I became unsure about the future, in terms of my career. I was living in a remote location contemplating other kinds of work, not only in music.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Music
  • Career
  • Location

• My family responsibilities don't conflict with my career. Not at all.

  

  Meg Ryan
  • Family
  • Career

• When someone asks about a career in fashion, I say start at the bottom. If you want to start a business, you have to know it from the ground up.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Up
  • Business
  • Fashion

• I never considered a career in music because it was too unattainable. I just didn't believe it was possible.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Career

• I always wanted to be in charge of my own career. I like having my own imprint.

  

  Tracy Lawrence
  • Career

• I definitely think that theatre is something I'll keep coming back to in my career for as long as I can. I also think theatre's something you have to be very fit to do. I am fairly fit, but I don't think I could do it all the time.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • Time
  • Long
  • Theatre

• Your first job can set the trajectory for the rest of your career.

  

  Daniel Schwartz
  • Job
  • Career
  • Rest

• Monetary success is not success. Career success is not success. Life, someone that loves you, giving to others, doing something that makes you feel complete and full. That is success. And it isn't dependent on anyone else.

  

  James Avery
  • Life
  • Success
  • Giving

• I've managed to keep my career going in a way that suits me. I'll perform, and then I'll go home to my actual life, and I've never been so visible.

  

  Debbie Gibson
  • Life
  • Home
  • Career

• I'm very happy with my life and career, but I do find myself having serious attacks of nostalgia, and I don't quite know why. Even though I've got to travel the world and do amazing things, I still want to go back to my teenage years and change little aspects of it. It's strange, but it does continue to bug me.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Life
  • World
  • Why

• President Barack Obama benefits from the shared experience and wisdom of top national security and foreign policy advisers, many of them career professionals.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Experience
  • Wisdom
  • President

• The inside operation of Congress - the deals, the compromises, the selling out, the co-opting, the unprincipled manipulating, the self-serving career-building - is a story of such monumental decadence that I believe if people find out about it they will demand an end to it.

  

  Bella Abzug
  • People
  • Believe
  • Congress

• The career of an esthete was nothing I ever intended.

  

  Joseph Brodsky
  • Career

• I remember, when I was younger, it was such a big fantasy for me. Now that I actually have a career and have made an album, it's really surreal.

  

  Candice Glover
  • Remember
  • Fantasy
  • Album

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