Careers Quotes

• The most important, overriding arc of my career has been that I would never be self-deprecating.

  

  Sandra Bernhard
  • Important
  • Careers

• In the '60s, my father, Wally Amos, had been a talent agent and a personal manager before taking a major career detour in 1975, when he opened a store selling chocolate chip cookies.

  

  Shawn Amos
  • Father
  • Talent
  • Chocolate

• I gave everything in my career so I have no regrets at all.

  

  Michel Platini
  • Careers
  • Regrets

• I think I'm realising that careers for tennis players are very short. On the women's side now, players are starting to peak later on, but the average age is about 31, 32 when you finish playing, so I want to make the most of it while I'm young, fit, and healthy. I don't want to waste any time.

  

  Heather Watson
  • Careers
  • Tennis Players

• To spend more money, you have to have more money, but time is fixed and we all have the same amount to spare. How we choose to spend it can make a significant difference on the impact we have in our careers or in the world.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • World
  • Differences
  • Impact

• Working with Ronnie Barker was always a joy and were without doubt some of the best years of my career

  

  David Jason
  • Joy
  • Doubt
  • Years

• I am very honored and excited to be part of UFC 100, it's going to be the hardest challenge of my career so far and it's going to be pretty tough, I can't wait.

  

  Georges St-Pierre
  • Challenges
  • Tough
  • Excited

• Life is a mission, not a career.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Careers
  • Missions

• Jazz is so difficult. A lot of people think once they've learned these licks they can get up and play them for the rest of their life. But that's not being truthful to the music 'cause it's not developing. Cats you hear that don't make no mistakes? They ain't trying to do nothing. everything they hear is on the mark, but they've played it so many times... I've built a whole career out of making mistakes!

  

  Lester Bowie
  • Thinking
  • Difficult
  • Mistakes

• There is a very difficult period in a comedian's career - it's that window of time where you're good enough to draw tickets but nobody knows you yet.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Enough
  • Difficult
  • Comedian

• My career is going better now than when I was younger. Now I get the part. Back then, I'd get the girl.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Girl
  • Careers

• I never wanted to separate from either wife. It was accumulated stress. We had virtually no time to ourselves. After politics we were both working very hard to establish new careers.

  

  John Hewson
  • Wife
  • Politics
  • Careers

• I admire the work of brilliant actresses such as Judi Dench, Maggie Smith and Helen Mirren, who have had such varied careers. They have never stopped working, and they are as great today as they ever were.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Admire
  • Judi Dench
  • Maggie Smith

• I've had plenty of jo-jobs. Nothing I'd call a career. Let me put it this way. I have an extensive collection of name tags and hair nets.

  

  Wayne Campbell
  • Hair
  • Jobs
  • Plenty

• The only pressure is the pressure I put on myself, that's up to be I guess to mitigate that. I think there's always pressure that you make the right choice for the next film. You don't know what the outcome is gonna be, there's always potential to find length to your career as well. Now I'm so far from any other job skills that if I don't make movies.

  

  Cary Fukunaga
  • Film
  • Choices
  • Jobs

• I ignored my stand-up career for twenty-five years, but now, having finished this memoir, I view this time with surprising warmth. One can have, it turns out, an affection for the war years.

  

  Steve Martin
  • War
  • Affection
  • Ignored

• Women have to take more control of their careers. They can't just wait to be cast in a film.

  

  Richard LaGravenese
  • Waiting
  • Careers

• My career has been very strange. My career is like a heart monitor. I get involved in a good project now and then to keep things going. And then I make things that I work on that I hope are going to be good so I can make a living and keep a roof over the heads of those little monsters I have in my house.

  

  Michael Madsen
  • Good
  • House
  • Involved

• I think the first thing is to recognize that there is an ebb and flow to your career. There are going to be moments that are really high, and then you're going to have moments where you step away for a little bit, and maybe that's just by choice or maybe you have a family.

  

  Michelle Monaghan
  • Moments
  • Choices
  • Firsts

• I was playing the best football of my career at the time, finishing top scorer in Italy three year's running. There were other good players around but I think I was the best at that time.

  

  Michel Platini
  • Thinking
  • Running
  • Football

• I don't like the word 'career'. When somebody says to me, 'oh, you've had such a wonderful career', I think, 'career - that's after you're dead.' I just don't think that way.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Way
  • Wonderful
  • Careers

• I want to go out at the top, but the secret is knowing when you're at the top, it's so difficult in this business, your career fluctuates all the time, up and down, like a pair of trousers.

  

  Rod Stewart
  • Difficult
  • Secret
  • Knowing

• I love 'Wild 'N Out' so much - one, because it's my baby, but also I get to see others succeed and go on to lead their own careers.

  

  Nick Cannon
  • Baby
  • Succeed
  • Careers

• Early in my career, I struggled with consistency, but I couldn't get more consistent than this year.

  

  Roger Federer
  • Years
  • Consistency
  • Consistent

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