Quotes About Career

I'm trying to reestablish my career and do great work and give my kids the life they deserve.

It wasn't good for my nerves, that kind of work - a fireman. I've got high blood pressure. I get upset easily. I don't think that was a proper career alternative for me.

I'd rather work than not.

My dad was a businessman, and he would say, 'Work for free at the best company. Don't get paid a lot of money to work with the worst people.' And that's exactly how I see my career.

I need to work to support my family.

This is the kind of work I've aspired to my whole career.

I have done very little in my life except go to school and work for the CIA. Intellectually I think I did everything I could. Emotionally you always think you should have something more.

I really wanted to work and become independent.

I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.

In terms of the movie business, being in a 'Lord of the Rings' has given me more interesting options as work.

Nobody wants to be a lawyer - it's hard work. But it was kind of my academic route.

After years of research, I discovered 25 differences in the work-life choices of men and women. All 25 lead to men earning more money, but to women having better lives.

All I do is work, that's all my life is work.

I'm getting bigger roles, and I'm on location more, and I have a wife and family. I'd rather work less, and I've started to implement that. It was either that or my wife would break my heart.

The work that leads to a doctor's degree is a constant temptation to sacrifice one's growth as a man to one's growth as a specialist.

That is the one thing in my public career that I regret--my work to secure the enactment of the Federal Reserve Law.

If you're going to do a guest spot on television, they need bodies on those procedural TV shows. You've got to keep working, and that's where a lot of the work is.

I was always entirely about work, about getting where I am now. If I'm not working I'm thinking about it, though at some point I learned not to talk about it very much.

I'm probably the most pessimistic actor I know. I'm always sure I'll never work again.

I just try to let myself really focus on the work that's ahead of me and what my job is and how I bring something to life.

At 25, I was in the audience of my first professional speaker, Bob Bales. His presentation got my attention. I had never seen anyone having so much fun 'at work' and getting paid for it!

If the work is the horse, a career makes a great cart.

I honestly wondered how on earth I would manage to combine work and motherhood.

To be successful, look for the job you will take if you don't need a job