Careers Quotes

• 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

• Life is a mission, not a career. A career is a profession, a mission is a cause. A career asks, What's in it for me? A mission asks, How can I make a difference?

  

  Sean Covey
  • Life
  • Differences
  • Causes

• Every single organization - or career, for that matter - exists on three levels: WHAT you do, HOW you do it and WHY you do it.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Matter
  • Organization
  • Levels

• You think you're writing one historical novel and it turns into three, and I'm quite used to a short story turning into a novel - that's happened through my whole career.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Stories
  • Novel
  • Three

• Scientific careers rely on inheritance, environment, and random events, like all biological phenomena.

  

  Michael Rosbash
  • Environment
  • Phenomena
  • Scientific

• 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

• 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

• Many people say they got into their career by accident. The other side of that is that your career is an accident waiting to happen.

  

  Daniel J. King
  • People
  • Waiting
  • Happens

• 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

• 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 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

• It is a tough business but if you get yourself in a situation like I, you can maintain a career over many years. That, to me, is a successful actor.

  

  Ray Stevenson
  • Actors
  • Successful
  • Situation

• In my career as an actor, there is a catchphrase that Scofield always says often in regards to his brother, 'Have a little faith.' In my own career as an actor, there were times when I was the only one who believed in myself in the face of the odds.

  

  Wentworth Miller
  • Actors
  • Faces
  • Careers

• I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.

  

  Tony Gilroy
  • Written
  • Scripts
  • Bunch

• One of the things that's different about London and the English market is that theater and film and television are all based in London. It's not quite the same as in the States where if the playwright here wants a successful TV or film career, they're whisked away by Hollywood.

  

  Colin Callender
  • Different
  • Film
  • Successful

• 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

• 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 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 think actors' careers have highs and lows, and ups and downs. It just really all depends.

  

  Tricia Helfer
  • Actors
  • Careers
  • Depends

• It's just too much if you make your career everything. It is everything when you're doing it. But you have to find things you love just as much.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Careers

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

  

  Roger Federer
  • Years
  • Consistency
  • Consistent

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

  

  Michel Platini
  • Careers
  • Regrets

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