Quotes About Career

If you ignore the part-time or self-published component of the survey, and look only at full-time, traditionally published authors, incomes look a little better Ã¢â'¬â€œ though at $20,300 annually, you are going to need a trust fund, a rich partner or a sideline in computer fraud to make ends meet. The same basic picture applies in the UK and elsewhere.

The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.

I only tour in short bursts, I'm only ever away from my family and three daughters for a month or two.

Before I had kids I'd go out on the road for months and months at a time, but now I don't think I'd want to do that anymore, because I'd miss too much time at home, so it's just a matter of monitoring how much work that I do and how much time I'm on the road.

Instead of going back to teaching, she began to do housework because it paid more.

My early choice in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference.

My choices in life were either to be a piano player in a whore house or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference!

My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference.

Successful careers are not planned. They develop when people are prepared for opportunities because they know their strengths, their method of work, and their values. Knowing where one belongs can transform an ordinary person—hardworking and competent but otherwise mediocre—into an outstanding performer.

Do your organization's ethics resonate with your own values? If not, your career will likely be marked by frustration and poor performance.

I actually may do a musical next year... not one that I've written one that I may star in. Plus my concert and other people's work and all of a sudden you've got a very full life.

I'm probably the only person who goes to work and says 'Wow, it's really nice here and sweet ' even in the competitive movie business.

Take advantage of losing your job by making it an opportunity to find a better one.

I don't find Hollywood interesting, so I'm thinking of studying architecture instead.

The frustrating part of it is that you're generally known for what you did last. I've had the privilege of doing some very cool independent films that, a lot of the time, the general public doesn't see unless you're at a film festival or you're into that kind of movie.

I wasn't going to have fun doing a teen movie again.

Have lunch, have coffee, and continue to work hard on the things that won't dry up and blow away: Your health, your career, your little art projects or poems or essays, your odd new half-interests, the complicated folds of your sensitivity and your darkness, and your belief in a world that wants you to be happy.

I was fortunate enough to have my kids early, so being a mom always ended up being a better gig than these other parts that came along. So I always justified not really working a lot because I had a family.

Do you get to use your greatest strength every day at work?

But if you went back to wearing pants,' said Roo, 'you could retire ten years earlier.

In the 1970s, 3 percent of retiring members became lobbyists. Thirty years later, that number has increased by an order of magnitude. Between 1998 and 2004, more than 50 percent of senators and 42 percent of House members made that career transition.

Edwin Hubble, who continues to give me great faith in humanity, because he started out as a lawyer and then became an astronomer.

Music is the career I'm lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions.

There was one person who greatly and directly benefited my career--my agent Virginia Kidd. From 1968 to the late nineties she represented all my work, in every field except poetry. I could send her an utterly indescribable story, and she'd sell it to Playboy or the Harvard Law Review or Weird Tales or The New Yorker--she knew where to take it. She never told me what to write or not write, she never told me, That won't sell, and she never meddled with my prose.