Career Quotes
- Page 22I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.
Sally Ride
Horses will never be my career. It's just a big passion of mine, and one that will always be there in the background, but football is my main passion and everyone knows that.
Michael J. Owen
It so happened that my goals kind of matched my career progression toward becoming an astronaut.
John L. Phillips
There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her career is over. Guys tend to get an opportunity to learn from their mistakes.
Dick Wolf
The fact is that I made a stand a number of times in my career, and I did it because I knew I was right.
Bill Goldberg
It's like a garden: Whatever you water the most will do the best. At some point, you decide whether you'll water your career or your relationship more.
Jewel
It wasn't until I discovered comics that I actually began to approach drawing as a possible career.
Scott McCloud
Some people want fame, popularity and huge sales. I've always hoped to have a really long career. So I've tried to make each of my creative decisions and business decisions to allow for longevity. As a side effect I got really famous and really big. I didn't realize the two could go together.
Jewel
Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me.
Jack Layton
Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.
Orison Swett Marden
I'm just looking as always for something that's stimulating and I hope to find a good story that's a challenge, whether it's big or small. Or that it finds me. I don't have like a career plan. Maybe I should, but I don't.
Viggo Mortensen
Why I have had such a huge career and why I have sold over four million books, is that people can do what I share with them to do.
Sandra Lee
I tell students that even if they don't like math right now, they can use math as a brain-sharpening tool - a tool that not only builds the foundation for a great career, but that also builds self-confidence, no matter what they choose to do with their lives.
Danica McKellar
All I can tell you is that you cannot make choices in your own career, either career choices or choices when you're actually working as an actor, based on trying to downplay or live up to a comparison with somebody else. You just can't do that. You have to do your own work based on your own gut, your own instincts, and your own life.
Brandon Lee
I started at Pillsbury as a manager in one of their analysis functions, then worked my way up the corporate ladder to become vice president. Moving to Burger King was an important moment in my career.
Herman Cain
I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.
Mandy Patinkin
Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.
Famke Janssen
Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.
Sally Kellerman
Coaches give you too much information. I've been allowed to develop that intuitive ability in my career and lifetime.
Tiffeny Milbrett
I had a great first year and Mr. MacDonald was my biggest supporter. He gave me the encouragement I needed that first year to get my career started on a positive note.
Jim Evans
Whatever it is that gives you that confidence will vary from person to person, but I do believe that it is the key to succeeding at anything in life - career, relationships, anything.
Molly Ringwald
The many sounds of Memphis shaped my early musical career and continue to be an inspiration to this day.
Justin Timberlake
When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career.
Ernie Harwell