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Quotes About Careers

Professionals use 'Strictly' as a relaunch of flagging careers. In my year Kara Tointon won. She had been talking about giving up acting in favour of interior design, but the glitter ball led to a role as Eliza Doolittle in the West End.
~ Ann Widdecombe
What's really interesting about actors, is that we all have opinions on how people's careers look, but I think you never have any idea of your own, or what other people think of you.
~ Eddie Redmayne
The most important principle that an executive must embrace is a desire to produce results. As obvious as this sounds, it is not universally practiced by the highest-ranking executives in many companies. Many CEOs put something ahead of results on their list of priorities, and it represents the most dangerous of all the temptations: the desire to protect the status of their careers.
~ Patrick Lencioni
Nearly all makers have day jobs early in their careers.
~ Paul Graham
Writers who teach tend to prefer literary theory to literature and tenure to all else. Writers who do not teach prefer the contemplation of Careers to art of any kind.
~ Gore Vidal
To be inclusive, economic institutions must feature secure private property, an unbiased system of law, and a provision of public services that provides a level playing field in which people can exchange and contract; it also must permit the entry of new businesses and allow people to choose their careers.
~ Daron AcemoÄŸlu
absolute usefulness to those who wielded it as an instrument. It told us things already known, suggested things that would not work, and made careers for people who already had jobs. 'We
~ Unknown
I've been fortunate to work with Alfre Woodard and Jeffrey Wright; people who are artists, have careers, longevity and full lives. That looks good to me.
~ Nicole Beharie
I've learned to accept the fact that my students are far too busy preparing for their own legal careers to care one bit about the off-campus antics of Professor Burke. I get the impression that my students are vaguely aware of my novels, but are at best mildly curious.
~ Alafair Burke
Math proficiency is the gateway to a number of incredible careers that students may never have considered.
~ Danica McKellar
meaning, creativity, flexibility, and a sort of rapid prototyping not just of jobs but of entire careers.
~ Vicki Robin
Together, with technology as an enabler, we can help our veterans find meaningful civilian careers that match their skills and interest.
~ Tae Yoo
I know from personal experience the issues veterans are facing, issues around PTSD, making sure our military officers and enlisted can transition to new careers.
~ Elissa Slotkin
I imagined how much pressure he must have felt as a reviewer who could destroy entire careers. Who would want that sort of power? Especially over something as simple and charming as food?
~ Unknown
For many of the men, returning home meant reaching for some kind of "normal" that remained stubbornly out of reach. There wasn't any notion of "post-traumatic stress" or counseling. Doctors admonished the survivors to just forget about the experience and move on. A good fraction did just that, starting careers as firemen, policemen, salesmen, and engineers. Despite the ministrations of parents and wives, others faltered and stumbled.
~ Unknown
How do politicians cope with the challenges of predicting or manipulating the future, given that we can have only partial knowledge of the systems being analysed? 'I think that's rather a flattering account of what goes on here. With some notable exceptions it's mostly a bunch of very egotistical people, very ambitious people, who are primarily interested in their own careers.
~ Marcus du Sautoy
I'm a bitter, sad, sour young man who makes a career out of hastling people with real careers.
~ Steve Martin
It only confirmed what I'd always thought - that for all their education university professors can't even imagine political developments having any effect on their careers : they consider themselves untouchable.
~ Unknown