Quotes About Career

He must do the work for which he is suited—work that will provide a life of safety and security.

Parenthood is the only career in which the better you do your job, the sooner you're fired.

An enigma? That's not a bad persona to have. I should probably shut up and let the mystery continue! It's good for my career.

Didn't you hear about the study that came out of England? The smarter you are, the less likely you are of getting married. The dumb girls are getting the guys.' 'So, you say that you give facials for a living, instead of that you're a lawyer who graduated with top honors from Harvard Law School?' 'Yes, and it works.

It was the first time many of the women had spent time in a bonafide workplace apart from a classroom, and they discovered what workplaces are and have been since the dawn of time: places where one is annoyed and thwarted and underpaid and interrupted and under appreciated.

Motherhood was the dividing line between brilliant women who stayed in the work and those who did not. For a woman with children, there were few resources to make a career feasible. The nation lost talent that the war had developed.

I don't wanna abandon my identity as LL Cool J, but at the same time, I had to figure out how to let people know that I'm really serious about making these movies.

I have never forgotten my days as an Eagle Scout. I didn't know it at the time, but what really came out of my Scouting was learning how to lead and serve the community. It has come in handy in my career in government.

A secretary is not a thing Wound by key, pulled by string. Her pad is to write in, And not spend the night in, If that's what you plan to enjoy.

I'm not stupid. I would like to have some businesses that grow so I won't have to be out there on the road when I'm 44.

Far too many people accept management promotions because they feel (often rightly so) that they will be dead-ended if they reject the promotion.

Stop spending money to be nominated for worthless awards with no substance and no worth to your career. If you have to spend money to be nominated for an award and then spend the time to push all your friends and fans to vote for you to win that award, it is not worth it and it is not going to help you in anyway whatsoever in the long run.

The honor of your presentation, execution, experience, and growth will do much more for you and your career over false claims that have no substance yet."

You had such promise, Katarina. You were top of your class in mathematics, in chemistry, physics. You won the English essay contest. You were on the honor roll. You could have been anything you wanted, but now you are a maid, cleaning up after other people.

This was supposed to be mine. Labden guaranteed me the COO position for the new resort when it comes online. I've put my heart and sweat into this company for years. TerraWest has traded on my name, my Olympic fame, my gold medals, for God's sake. I'm married to the founder's daughter.

Most of her mom's friends are things like therapists, or lawyers, or doctors, or they own businesses like wool shops or coffee shops, or they're stay-home moms who hover over their kids and go to yoga and to the spa for deep tissue massages and mani-pedis. None of them would ever wait on a table.

A lot of people say I'd miss show business if I quit. I'd miss some of it. Now it's the only life I know.

As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life.

I learned you have to fight for yourself in the picture business.

I try to wrap my mind around this paradox: self-sabotage as a form of control. If I screw up my life, I can engineer my own death rather than have it happen to me. If I stay in a doomed relationship, if I mess up my career, if I hide in fear instead of facing what's wrong with my body, I can create a living death — but one where I call the shots.

I wonder what it says about me that pizza has been one of the better long-term investments in my career.

Everybody should get to make a living with their passion.

I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.

We closed the deal and moved to New York. Where in fact I had lived before, from the time I was twenty-one and just out of the English Department at Berkeley and starting work at Vogue (a segue so profoundly unnatural that when I was asked by the Condé Nast personnel department to name the languages in which I was fluent I could think only of Middle English) until I was twenty-nine and just married.