Quotes About Career

Since the beginning of my recording career in 1975, I have had a little difficulty because the pop stations think I'm a jazzer who doesn't have a feeling for pop, so it's hard to get my records played. Similarly, black urban radio doesn't understand that with my R&B roots, I am more than a jazz singer. So I get pigeonholed.

Kids coming out of college want that urban core excitement more and more.

I think, first of all, I don't think people understand Ice Cube's body of work. Ice Cube is a, and I hate to use the word 'urban' but - when you think of Judd Apatow, and a person who's launched so many careers, Ice Cube has done that for so many comedians, you know?

Urban living is an intersection of business and personal life.

I would love to play an urban working girl.

The Indian heritage plays a very important role in my career, I have always wanted my Indian roots to be with me. I was also influenced by the urban culture around me back in the day.

I started my career as an assistant for Wu-Tang Clan, then transitioned into urban marketing.

Why is computer science a good field for women? For one thing, that's where the jobs are, and for another, the pay is better than for many jobs, and finally, it's easier to combine career and family.

I looked to my mom as an example. And this is what I try to tell so many women: that my mom had a career, and she went to the gym. She took care of herself.

The richest and fullest lives attempt to achieve an inner balance between three realms: work, love and play.

I don't work, I live... I don't have a job, I just have a life.

At one point, I actually, ironically, thought I might go into criminology and work with the FBI.

I don't want to be Tom Cruise. I'm not after some movie blockbuster career. That's not the kind of work I'm interested in. And frankly, it's not the kind of work I'm ever going to get.

Everyone wants to work in America. Maybe not blockbusters or Terminator, but to have the choice.

My father was a middle manager at an oil company, but I never knew anything about his work. Whatever business acumen I have just got gleaned over the years.

No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.

I have to tell you that June Cleaver had a job in 'The New Leave It to Beaver.' She did. Sure, she was a council woman. She went to work. She wasn't a sit-at-home grandma. She went out, got a job.

The only consistent hobby I've had is studying Spanish and French because of some delusion of grandeur to work around the world. I love sports but usually I'm looking for the next job.

There is nothing more marvelous than doing something you love to do and getting paid for it. It ceases to become work, money, and effort; and it becomes fun, your expression of the joy of life.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.

It's the best thing if your work is your passion in life. It makes me feel like I'm always on break.

If work is so terrific, how come they have to pay you to do it?

Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it.

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.