Quotes About Career

Obviously we want to keep the jobs we've got.

I was living in London and I thought, 'There's nothing here for me anymore.' I don't want to become this actor who's going to be doing this occasional good work in the theater and then ever diminishing bad television. I thought I'd rather do bad movies than bad television because you get more money for it.

Race and gender definitely came up, occasionally, in my life at work. But the bigger challenge that I had was age. I took roles earlier in my career than people expected, and so a lot of what I got was, 'Do you actually know enough to do this?'

I have an agent and everything. I audition occasionally.

I'm always designing for that sort of dressed-up woman who likes to go to different occasions, who's career focused, but she entertains in the evening... a very sophisticated-feeling working woman who likes to have fun.

People don't understand it, but the most intense occasions in the House of Commons were the ones I enjoyed most. When events could go either way and you could find yourself out of a job by the end of the day, those were the times when you were most on a high.

I have been hugely proud in terms of what I have achieved, in terms of over 60 caps, and I have captained my country on a few occasions which has been a huge honour and something I have been really proud of in my career.

I'm really lucky that my occupation is something I love.

I don't know anything else but the Lakers. This has certainly been more than a job for me as a player. It has certainly meant more to me than just an occupation.

There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.

Being infamous is not fun. It becomes a weird occupation in and of itself.

My chosen occupation isn't necessarily movie star; I see my chosen occupation as actor.

Meeting Mike Nichols was a sort of lifetime occupation.

It's been a blessing that I can provide for my family just by doing music. I never thought this would ever be my occupation.

Men who work at Time have a life expectancy which is not long said the young man from Newsweek

Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.

If you can get paid for doing what you love, every paycheck is a bonus. Give yourself the bonus of a lifetime: Pursue your passion. Discover what you love. Then do it!

What I know is, is that if you do work that you love and work that fulfills you, the rest will come. And that, I truly believe that the reason I've been able to be so financially successful is because my focus has never, ever for one minute been money.

To avoid disappointment in art, one mustn't treat it as a career. Despite whatever great artistic sense and talent a man might possess, he ought to seek money and power elsewhere to avoid forsaking his art when he fails to receive proper compensation for his gifts and efforts.

A great many young men try to justify themselves and check inward protests by the perpetual self-suggestion that it is better to keep on, for the present, in questionable occupations, because the great financial reward will put them in position to do better later. This is a sort of sedative to the conscience to keep it quiet until they can afford to listen to it.

Most of us do not prepare for a large career because we do not expect enough of ourselves.

Specialties facilitate commerce, and promote efficiency in the professions, but are often narrowing to individuals. The spirit of the age tends to doom the lawyer to a narrow life of practice, the business man to a mere money-making career.

If you had any brains, you'd be in a real career, like selling life insurance.

He was a soldier, and if anyone had asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up, he wouldn't have known what they meant.