Career Quotes

If I had to choose, I'd choose my friends over my career.

If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.

I had pretty much raised my kids and my first wife and I were divorced, so I began, in earnest, to start my musical career again. Going for the big record deal and all of that.

My belief is the majority of people in politics are just interested in pursuing this career in politics, and doing what's necessary to get themselves re-elected. And if that happens to coincide with the public good, great. But if it doesn't, the public good loses out.

I think the people who have really followed my career from the time I was seven years old can see my steady progress and see the type of person and athlete I am.

I always get bored with my hair. That's why I would always change it throughout my career.

Directing is not a job. It's more like a career. Which is great!

Well, I liked it - that was the main thing. I liked it, but I didn't think of it in terms of a career. I didn't really know; I didn't really think about it. One thing just led to another until finally I quit my job as a salesman and found myself working as a photographer.

Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career?

I have never forgotten my days as an Eagle Scout. I didn't know it at the time, but what really came out of my Scouting was learning how to lead and serve the community. It has come in handy in my career in government.

Actually, I would love to make a music video. Maybe it would finally put to rest those persistent rumours that have followed me throughout my career - particularly when I was on camera performing - that I had died.

The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

One could make money and get a career going with a low-budget horror film about killers attacking on holidays. It is always flattering to have somebody copy you.

What I would pay much more attention to are the few points where the player can inadvertently make a career decision. Most players end up back-tracking, though some actually enjoy this.

Taking the time to read to children is not only a worthwhile investment but also a wonderful experience. I have visited 119 schools in Maine, and these visits are among the most rewarding experiences in my career in public service.

I'm not really easy to live with! There needs to be unlimited patience and unconditional love. Men I've known before loved my independent spirit and were proud of my success, to the point that they'd become jealous of the time I devote to my career.

Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

There weren't a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn't have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.

I've pitched too many innings and pitched too many years - one game doesn't make or break my career.

And my life for the first - you know, when I was in my 20s and 30s, I had my career, and I traveled the world, I lived out of a suitcase. I stayed up until dawn. I did all of those things that were very exciting.

I was the first Indian model to have a career in Paris, Milan and New York.

Part of what makes you great as a young player can hurt you at the end of your career, in terms of you need a certain amount of ego, a certain amount of arrogance to be able to play well and to push yourself and trick yourself into thinking you're better than you really are.

The rhythm of my career has always been very static, staccato and then silent, and then a lot of work, and then none.

It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived.

I've made a life and career as a professional musician.

My mother's career was over at 40 but she was still trying to be everyone's buddy, always smiling for the cameras.

The only time in my career prior to that I played an evil character was in 'The Twilight Zone'.

Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.

This means a lot. I'm being recognized for all the blood, sweat and tears I put into a 17-year career.

A lot of people say this honor validates my career, but I didn't work hard for validation.