Quotes About Careers

Africa is not fulfilling people's hopes and aspirations. African leaders have not had an agenda that included governing Africa so that people would find their careers, their life, dreams and visions fulfilled here.

I went to this rubbish school. I asked the careers master what he thought that I was going to do with my life, and he said I could always visit criminals in prison.

I think there is really something we need to examine about the notion of careers, and are women encouraged and given the same opportunities to have vital healthy careers in which they are challenged by certain things, they try new things, they struggle, maybe they stumble, maybe they fail, and then there's more room to succeed as well.

The old economy with careers and benefits and pensions is gone. There are scary implications to that.

We need timeless principles to steer by in running our organizations and building our personal careers. We need high standards . . . the ethics of excellence.

I graduated high school in 1974 when Roe v. Wade had only just been passed. Ms. Magazine was only just starting, and women were really feeling empowered to pursue their dreams and their careers, and I was excited to enter a new field of technology.

When you really think about it and look at the number of quarterbacks who come through the league, not many of them have Super Bowl careers.

Naval aviation and America's submarine force would continue their ascension as both spear point and deterrent, but for the fleet admirals, September 2, 1945, was the apex of their careers.

It's all so confusing and incestuous and curious, the trail that actors wander through in the course of their careers and how stories overlap. It's funny.

The stars that I've worked with started their careers almost at the same time as me. Whether it is Shah Rukh Khan or Aamir Khan or Salman Khan.

Actors sure have stories. We always have stories. At the end of our careers, all we have to take with us is our stories, and we have many of them.

Music is quicksilver, gossamer; careers are measured in butterfly lifetimes.

We did not do a good enough job of taking care of the people who were losing their careers and retraining them into the new economy.

There needs to be more schemes to help young people build careers in fashion, like apprenticeships.

Lara and I both had success in the amateurs, and we have continued to have successful professional careers.

Certainly there have been better actors than me who have had no careers. Why? I don't know.

On the artist side, we made a significant investment in very young artists from the very beginning of their careers and helped them become global superstars.

Whatever the reason, we are not doing a good enough job getting to women early enough in their careers, supporting them, and enabling them to pursue careers in directing.

Studies have shown that since women have had access to the pill and family planning measures, they have made huge gains in both wages and in careers that were dominated by men.

Country music fans are extremely passionate and loyal. It seems that country artists have longer-lasting careers because the fans stick with the artists through thick and thin.

In most of our lives, we are accustomed to aiming at mastery and control and dominion- - over nature, over our lives, over our jobs, over our careers, over the goods that we buy.

Describing her as Barbie is actually sort of insulting to Barbie. Barbie, however plastic, has had many brilliant careers as veterinarian, olympic athlete, and ever paleontologist. And she's traveled the world.

I think it's dangerous to get into ideas of planning careers.

I've helped launch 49 careers - those that have been in PiL. To me, they are my babies; whatever they get up to, they know I love them. They've been living in my pockets, and they should show more gratitude.