Quotes About Career

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.

I don't want to think my life as a career. I'm interested in my work only because of the meaning I can make.

With the number of people I ignore, I'm lucky I work at all in this town.

I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work.

If you intend to make a living at drawing, by all means learn it [the rules of perspective] now, and do not have them bothering you and your work for the rest of your life.

I wish I had some interesting stories about living in L.A., but mostly I just do my work and then go home.

Nobody can be a success if they don't love their work.

To me, working is a form of sustenance, like food or water, and nearly as essential.

I do give myself a break in my personal life but I think in work, if you don't push yourself you get bored and want to do something else.

My best advice: Fall in love with what you do for a living.

The good thing about being an actress is that it's very children-friendly. I can work for three months and then I can have six months off. And then I can work for six months and have six months off.

I've always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.

When people come up to me and say 'I hate you' or 'I love to hate you,' it's not the usual response that I thought I would've gotten halfway into my career. And then they say, 'I love your work.'

I work hard, I make my own living and I love it. I like having financial independence.

People would pay money to work at CNN

So I try not to do press and if you can keep the balance of keeping a certain degree of anonymity and do interesting work then you can hope for a degree of career longevity

If one's work environment isn't able to provide individuals with meaning, people will seek out one that does.

And I don't like to work. I only like working when I'm working.

It is, I think, harder for women. I haven't quite figured it out, and all of my women friends haven't figured it out -how the hell do you do this? How do you work and have families?

I believe modeling is a combination of natural talent, the ability to adapt to different situations, hard work, and, most importantly, luck.

My parents wanted me to work in a bank or as an accountant.

One of the reasons I am happy now is that I did the work I had always dreamed of doing. But I didn't start doing it seriously and professionally until I was forty years old.

I got a chance to work with Stallone and De Niro - pretty much sums it up for me. You can tell where you're going in your career by the company you keep.

Many feel they are called to the priesthood, but what they really hear is an inner voice saying, 'It's indoor work with no heavy lifting, do you want to be a ploughman like your father?'