Career Quotes
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I'm sometimes asked how I would like to be remembered. I've had a diverse career as a writer, underwater explorer, space promoter and science populariser. Of all these, I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.
Arthur C. Clarke
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
Verne Troyer
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'Fix' was a song that definitely put me on the map and changed everything for in me my career. I'm really thankful for it.
Chris Lane
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I hope I can compete in one or two Olympics in my career. Of course I would like to win a medal, but just being there would be awesome.
Patrick Chan
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Anyone graduating from medical school in 1966 had first to fulfill military service before launching a career. Fiercely opposed to the Vietnam War, I sought to avoid it through an assignment to the Public Health Service.
Harold E. Varmus
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
Tea Obreht
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Miles Davis was a part of my life from 1947 on. I was born in 1941 and I first heard him in 1947 on a 78 rpm. And then I followed his career, starting with his first solo album in 1951. He was an icon and inspiration and a mentor to me.
Chick Corea
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The NBA wasn't a big deal at that time, so it wasn't really in my career plans.
Bob Cousy
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Happiness doesn't come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.
Robert Baden-Powell
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I have never lived through any time in my career when there haven't been grave challenges facing newspapers.
Donald Newhouse
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The smart way to build a literary career is you create an identifiable product, then reliably produce that product so people know what they are going to get. That's the smart way to build a career, but not the fun way. Maybe you can think about being less successful and happier. That's an option, too.
Karen Joy Fowler
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Our career had a sort of funny shape.
Walter Becker Steely Dan
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And finally I begin to have such a success in my examinations that I found myself in a career you see.
Victoria de los Angeles
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I always wanted to be an actor and I'd never dreamt that not only would I be able to do this for a living, but also on top of that I'd be able to choose and steer the course of my own career.
Leonardo DiCaprio
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I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever thought I would do. I could never have imagined the career that I've had with the Foo Fighters - playing stadiums and having songs on the radio. It's amazing, and my goal is really just to carry on playing.
Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
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I've been in the public eye so long, I can't remember how it was when it was different - from my mid-20s onwards, when my career started to blossom and I became an international, world cups and things.
Gary Lineker
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I've taken my clothes off enough in my career.
Natalie Dormer
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
Nadia Comaneci
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I want to pursue a career in film.
O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
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I used to make cassette tapes but never thought about making a career of it.
Christina Grimmie
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I'm not an economist; I'm a hacker who has spent his career exploring and repairing large networks.
Dan Kaminsky
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I've been blessed in my career to be able to do studio and independent films.
Jackson Rathbone
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Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.
Cameron Diaz
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If you're too scared to put your dreams, thoughts, desires, fantasies on paper and share them with the world, then being an author isn't the right career for you.
P. C. Cast