Quotes About Career

As a teacher, I had been a happy man. Now, I was only a diminished one.

Because she is an actress, she has fashioned an entire career out of identity theft.

There's an old saying that anyone can make colonel on his own, but it takes a wife to make a general.

articulate, and at ease in expressing their ideas on a one-to-one basis, become tongue-tied and terrified when faced with even a small audience. Businesspeople have been stymied in their careers because they fear speaking up

If, as a result of reading this book, you get only one thing—an increased tendency to think always in terms of the other person's point of view, and see things from that person's angle as well as your own—if you get only that one thing from this book, it may easily prove to be one of the stepping-stones of your career.

Firing employees is not much fun. Getting fired is even less fun.

1871, a young man picked up a book and read twenty-one words that had a profound effect on his future. A medical student at the Montreal General Hospital

Well, nothing helps an artist's career more than a little death and obscurity, I always say.

Si un escritor se pone muy enfermo, todo se detiene. Si se muere, su negocio se acaba para siempre. En este sentido, la carrera de un escritor popular se parece más a la de un famoso actor, pero hasta el actor más famoso tiene un suplente. Un escritor no. Nadie puede sustituirle. Su voz personal lo es todo. Y esto es especialmente cierto en el caso de una escritor popular que ya está en proceso de ser publicado por entregas en una revista de tirada nacional.

I was gotten into an employment quite remote to my genius, and directly contrary to the life I delighted in

In 1719—at the age of 59—Defoe turned his attention for the first time to an extended work of prose fiction, presenting his account of events of which he had no direct experience. Robinson Crusoe, the account of the shipwreck and survival of one man, became a great success, and Defoe turned his full attention to his lucrative writing career.

We do not compete in our careers with people who lack the requisite intelligence to enter and stay in our field—but rather against the much smaller group of those who have managed to jump the hurdles of schooling, entry exams, and other cognitive challenges to get into the field in the first place.

emotional intelligence accounts for 80 percent of career success.

Una persona muy autoconsciente sabe adónde se dirige y por qué; así, por ejemplo, se mostrará firme al rechazar una oferta laboral que resulte tentadora desde un punto de vista económico pero no encaje con sus principios u objetivos a largo plazo.

Lo que parece diferenciar a quienes se encuentran en la cúspide de su carrera de aquéllos otros que, teniendo una capacidad similar, no alcanzan esa cota, radica en la práctica ardua y rutinaria seguida a lo largo de años y años. Y esta perseverancia depende fundamentalmente de factores emocionales, como el entusiasmo y la tenacidad frente a todo tipo de contratiempos.

We leave lucrative jobs to take low-paying ones that provide a clearer sense of purpose.

This teaching job did not pay a lot of money, because, let's face it, nobody gives a flying fuck about education, but it was a temporary position.

Look to the Bible for the answer. Ancient Jewish wisdom says, "Delight in serving other people." This is the best career advice you will ever get.

I failed my exam in some subjects but my friend passed. Now he's an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner.

I always pray for God's guidance in my life and he always provides it. He opens the right doors he shuts the right doors. And I have tremendous faith in him. He just guided my career in an amazing way.

At a certain point I'm going to want to have a family.

But I just felt at one point that I was on a hamster wheel, you know? Just doing movie after movie and thinking so much about career related things and I think missing out on hanging with my friends and family as much I needed to.

"There are two tests in life, more important than any other test. On Monday morning, when you wake up, do you feel in the pit of your stomach you can't wait to go to work? And when you're ready to go home Friday afternoon, do you say, 'I can't wait to go home?'

I'm working 2 days a week right now, narration usually on Wed., and host on camera on Friday.