Quotes About Career

Don't lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don't have a career. You have a life. Do the work. Keep the faith. Be true blue. You

That job and the fifteen others I had before I graduated college were my own, personal "educational opportunities." They changed my life for the better, though it took me a while to understand their worth.

Don't lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don't have a career. You have a life.

Our parents valued security over everything else. In their time jobs were few, so you better grab one and settle down. Else you would be on the road,' Brijesh said.

There are call centres, credit card sales. Be open-minded and things work out.' 'Finish engineering and join a call centre?' 'Dude, don't be so shocked. We, like millions of other students, are the losers in the Great Indian Education Race. Be happy with whatever you get.

What's this LinkedIn? Is that like Facebook for old people?

I could have been a doctor, but there were too many good shows on TV.

Before the typewriter, this was a booming career path, as nearly every major business needed a competent and proficient penman on hand... during the golden age of penmanship (roughly 1860 to 1930).

Teacher: Johnny, you only got half the answers right on your test! Johnny: No problem, Teech! Teacher: How can you say that? Johnny: I'm going to be a meteorologist.

All that stands between the college graduate and the top of the ladder is the ladder.

I try to treat each evening and weekend as little slices of retirement because no one is guaranteed a lengthy one at the end of their career.

The secret to happiness in your work is to find a job in which your neurosis is constructive.

I was a late bloomer, but I had a career as a contemporary dancer before that, so I had some kind of connection to this world. But I was always a little more in love with the drama of dancing than the aesthetics, so I thought, 'Why don't you give it a chance if you think you can do it a little different?'

As the time goes by, you change, your learn new things, your attitude is different. For the moment, I'm still enjoying ski racing so much that it would be difficult for me to think about ending my career.

I've been fired five times for having a bad attitude.

After all, it is far better, reasonably, to have continual satisfaction and mild enjoyment in your job than to daily do something you detest only because it pays you that big money that makes the occasional more expensive pleasures possible.

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

I get offered varied parts, often super sexy roles. But I still think it's an issue to find the good scripts. It's a myth that you win an Oscar and you get more opportunities, and this doesn't just go for me.

A stagnant navy," noted one maritime scholar, "was no place for a man on the make.

I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.

But, darling, you're my world, my life." She kissed me. "And what will you do? You have no job—nothing. How will you live? I can't bear to think of you going back to those cheap little jobs. Here with me you are safe. I can look after you, protect you. I can give you the world—anything you want." I remembered something I had read. "What does it profit a man," I quoted, "if in gaining the world he loses his own soul?

A freelance gangster and thief" (as Herbert Asbury describes him in his classic work The Gangs of New York), Hicks embarked on his criminal career at the age

There is no inherent reason or necessity that all women should voluntarily choose to devote their lives to one animal function and its consequences. Numbers of women are wives and mothers only because there is no other career open to them,---no other occupation for their feelings or activities.

I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.