Careers Quotes

• One of the things that happens to careers out here is that people destroy themselves because they begin to think they're wonderful. They begin to think they know what they're doing, and the minute that happens, it's over.

  

  William Goldman
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Wonderful

• Being in the Final Four was a dream of mine growing up, and I was unable to fulfill that dream, but I feel like I had a great college career and won a lot of games.

  

  Paul Pierce
  • College
  • Feels
  • Games

• I was never really a career woman. My life always came first.

  

  Carrie Snodgress
  • Firsts
  • Careers

• It's hard to have little children and a job and career at the same time. There is no time left for you as a woman.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Children
  • Jobs
  • Careers

• Life is a mission, not a career.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Careers
  • Missions

• I'm at a point in my career, I've been around a long time now, over 35 years in broadcasting. I don't worry about much. I respect what America's Got Talent is. It is a family show. It is a show that I love.

  

  Howard Stern
  • America
  • Worry
  • Talent

• As a mentalist, perhaps only Orson Wells was in Jason's league. After a career in television, Randal has my endorsement. He's simply the best I've ever seen!

  

  Merv Griffin
  • Television
  • Careers
  • Endorsements

• Every great company, brand, career has been built in exactly the same way: bit by bit, step by step, little by little.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Company
  • Littles
  • Steps

• Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Writing
  • Happens
  • Pleasant

• 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

• Let's pretend my career in music is a bell. Whether you like my music or not is up to you. But you've got to admit I rang that bell pretty hard and pretty often.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Music
  • Careers
  • Bells

• A lot of young girls don't realise how diverse the career opportunities are in games development. Many think that you need elite math skills and a vast knowledge of all things tech to work in games, and haven't thought about avenues like design, producing, art, writing or composing.

  

  Rhianna Pratchett
  • Thinking
  • Opportunity
  • Development

• If you're going to be an artist, you have to create music that moves you, and to not try to fit in so much with what's happening around you. It's a career choice.

  

  Domenica Costa
  • Trying
  • Moving
  • Choices

• I was really going through a transition in my life. I was tired of feeling victimized by my career.

  

  Sandra Bernhard
  • Feelings
  • Tired
  • Transition

• Listen, if my career was to end tomorrow, I would have no complaints whatsoever.

  

  Rod Stewart
  • Tomorrow
  • Careers
  • Complaints

• I'm a big fan of Frank Sinatra, he was the best at what he did. The last thing I do is model my career after him, though, because we do different things. He was a great singer and a great actor ... It never crossed my mind to emulate his career, because we have different interests.

  

  Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Different
  • Mind
  • Actors

• I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Believe
  • Interesting
  • Careers

• 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 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

• I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Kids
  • Careers

• Thank God I didn't put my career over family. That would have been the biggest mistake of my life. I'm really happy it went the way it did.

  

  Leslie Mann
  • Happy
  • Mistake
  • Really

• My whole career has been an act of revenge.

  

  Ruby Wax
  • Careers
  • Revenge

• I always knew how to cook and at one point in my career where I had done nine television pilots before Three's Company and they all failed, I just got discouraged.

  

  Suzanne Somers
  • Company
  • Cooks
  • Discouraged

• A man doesn't amount to something because he has been successful at a third-rate career like journalism. It is evidence, that's all: evidence that if he buckled down and worked hard, he might some day do something really worth doing.

  

  Russell Baker
  • Men
  • Successful
  • Evidence

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