Quotes About Careers

Careers will come and go. Talent is always there.

Scandals have impacted many politicians' careers and aspirations. Some have survived, and others have fallen.

It takes years to realize the multiple benefits of science; without adequate, sustained funding for research, the careers of many bright, young scientists may come to a screeching halt.

Divinity students always fought in these peaked caps, as a scar would terminate their careers.

Your relationship with an agent has got to be mutually beneficial. If you can't help their careers, then they're not going to be interested.

Yet almost all of these techniques ultimately derive from yoga. It's a testimony to the power of these techniques that entire careers have been built around different aspects of yoga, sometimes even renamed after the person who rediscovered that practice.

Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.

I learned that in senior football it's about managing the game. People are playing for contracts and playing for careers, so when you're 1-0 up or 2-0 up, you have to see the game out.

I admire a lot of actors, but I don't covet people's careers.

Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - they're movie stars; their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting.

Even Nobel laureates in economics make only a tiny fraction of their decisions using pen, paper and calculator; 99 per cent of our decisions – including the most important life choices concerning spouses, careers and habitats – are made by the highly refined algorithms we call sensations, emotions and desires.

99 per cent of our decisions – including the most important life choices concerning spouses, careers and habitats – are made by the highly refined algorithms we call sensations, emotions and desires.18

Leaders' careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.

We knew the European players that went to the NBA and had great careers, and we knew the ones that went and had terrible careers or finished early. We were prepared for a lot of criticism.

I don't even want my music on mainstream radio. They don't deserve it. They destroy careers.

To be sure, technology will change what we do. Tasks that are highly manual, routine, and predictable will be automated. But jobs are made up of many tasks. So the nature of existing jobs will change, and new careers will be created.

Infectors can be recognized by the misfortune they draw on themselves, their turbulent past, their long line of broken relationships, their unstable careers, and the very force of their character, which sweeps you up and makes you lose your reason.

Our perception of songs that we've written... the meaning changes from day to day... to whatever stage we're at in our life and careers.

The hazard of metrics so purely focused on monetary return on investment is that like so many metrics, they influence behavior. Already, universities at the very top of the rankings send a huge portion of their graduates into investment banking, consulting, and high-end law firms—all highly lucrative pursuits.48 These are honorable professions, but is it really in the best interests of the nation to encourage the best and the brightest to choose these careers?

I was mentored by great Disney animators at the end of their careers.

By allowing many adult learners to retrain and upskill throughout their careers, colleges provide expertise for key sectors.

'A Different World' didn't have the blazing success that 'Cosby' had, but it was on for seven seasons, and we got a lot of awards, and a lot of faces came out of that show and have had great careers.

I never got into making documentaries for any kind of success, because documentary careers are generally ones of prolonged failures.

We've seen senators like Ted Cruz before. The historical comparison most commonly invoked involves Joe McCarthy, whose scurrilous red-baiting crusade in the early 1950s shattered the careers of innocent public servants and alienated McCarthy from his fellow senators, but also made him a folk hero on the right. Jesse Helms comes to mind too.