Quotes About Career

You look great, Senator.I think I could get used to seeing you wet and naked. Lazily she dipped back to float. If you ever decide to ditch politics, I imagine you could have a successful career as a lifeguard at a nude beach. It's always good to have something to fall back on.

He loved his job. What was advertising, anyway, but a knowledge of people and of which buttons to push to nudge them into opening their wallets? It was, he often thought, an accepted, creative, even expected twist on picking those wallets. For a man who had spent the first half of his life as a thief, it was the perfect career.

It's discouraging not to be good at what you've chosen as your life's work. Your life is far from done, so you've more than time enough to choose again. And I'll wager you were better at it than you decided to believe.

tailor-made a job I'd like more.

Companies remain intent on maximising profits, personal salaries, bonuses and career opportunities. Conferences on mindfulness, ethics and vision seem little more than exercises in public relations. These gestures seem trivial in comparison to the core aims of corporations. A meteor will land one day and extinguish them.

There is no alternative universe where Ralph Sampson is a beloved symbol of excellence. There's no Philip K. Dick novel where he averages a career double-double and gets four rings. He could never be that guy. He was needed elsewhere, for other reasons. He was needed to remind people that their own self-imposed mediocrity is better than choking on transcendence.

If there's any trick to doing a job you hate . . . Mrs. Clark says it's to find a job you hate even more.

Her mom and dad are both doctors and want her to follow her dream, not turn out the way they have, no matter how much it costs them.

If you're male, and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And sometimes you find your father in your career.

We were all so wor­ried about our worst fears, squeez­ing frogs, eat­ing worms, poi­sons, as­bestos, we nev­er con­sid­ered how bor­ing life would be even if we suc­ceed­ed and got a good job.

Imag­ine how you'd feel if your whole life turned in­to a job you couldn't stand.

Without just one nest A bird can call the world home Life is your career

If you asked my dad about selecting any kind of professional career, he'd tell you, "Don't make a date with a heart attack." Meaning: You've got to pace yourself and not forget to slow down. No job is forever. So relax and have some fun.

To make a career of rescuing people is also to create a permanent class in need of rescue.

He pasado la mayor parte de mi vida adulta posando a cambio de un fajo de billetes por hora, luciendo ropa y zapatos, bien peinada delante de un fotógrafo de moda que me dice lo que debo sentir.

Con todo, uno puede ser un chaval que se la está cascando y al cabo de un momento ya nunca podrá ser abogado.

What I am is a recall campaign coordinator, I tell the single-serving friend sitting next to me, but I'm working toward a career as a dishwasher.

If you're not on your way to becoming a veterinarian in six weeks, you will be dead.

what's most important to you in your career? The problem is that what we think matters most in our jobs often does not align with what will really make us happy.

It's impossible to have a meaningful conversation about happiness without understanding what makes each of us tick. When we find ourselves stuck in unhappy careers—and even unhappy lives—it is often the result of a fundamental misunderstanding of what really motivates us.

We should always remember that beyond a certain point, hygiene factors such as money, status, compensation, and job security are much more a by-product of being happy with a job rather than the cause of it.

I will be successful and happy in my career? My relationships with my spouse, my children, and my extended family and close friends become an enduring source of happiness? I live a life of integrity—and stay out of jail?

Our default instincts are so often just to support our children in a difficult moment. But if our children don't face difficult challenges, and sometimes fail along the way, they will not build the resilience they will need throughout their lives. People who hit their first significant career roadblock after years of nonstop achievement often fall apart.

your family and friends rarely shout the loudest to demand your attention. They love you and they want to support your career, too. That can add up to neglecting the people you care about most in the world.