Quotes About Career

I wanted to be a teacher. My dad was a teacher.

I feel that marrying younger and being quite a young dad helped me with the stability of my career.

It was always acting for me, since I was about 15. My middle brother always wanted to be a news anchor, so we always felt that he'd be the one to take over for dad, so we could go and do our thing.

[Dan Fried] served six presidents over a 40-year career dating back to the [Jimmy] Carter administration.

Im dating a very high-maintenance career.

I grew up wanting to be a musician, but my parents were sure I would starve to death. So, they put me in physics and chemistry. That eventually blew up, and I got into radio.

Being pigeonholed is the death of all actors.

This is not the position in life that I had hoped to fill. I want to be an obstetrician. Who quarrels with an obstetrician? Even the obstetrician who delivered Bugsy Siegel goes to bed at night with a clear conscience.

Once Lola Pierotti earned $24,000 a year and worked long hours as an administrative assistant on Capitol Hill. Now she works longer hours and has even more responsibility- but no pay. What happened? Was she demoted? No, she just married the boss. Her bridegroom, of four years this month, was the senior Republican Senator from Vermont- George D. Aiken. All he expects of me is that I drive his car, cook his meals, do his laundry and run his office, she enumerated, with a grin.

A woman needs to be economically independent more than she needs a lover or a child.

Damn, girl. You space so hard, you ought to look into a career at NASA.

If anyone in your publishing life were to argue against a particular book or a career aspiration for reasons you had not already pondered and rejected after careful analysis, if they dazzled you with brilliant new considerations, then you'd have to back off and revisit your decisions. But what I was told never dazzled me. For example, I was often advised, by different people, that my work would never gain a big audience because my vocabulary was too large.

So many people spend their lives in jobs they hate, and that's worse.

Which would not surprise me. But a role in what?

Although science was never settled and was a perpetual process of discovery that undid past ideas, there were many who adamantly resisted all evidence that didn't support the theories on which they had built their careers.

I've gotten to make my living by my imagination. That's a lovely thing.

When I first came here copyboys wouldn't have been allowed to eat in the canteen with journalists. A smile twitched at one corner of his mouth. I was a copyboy once, at the Lanarkshire Gazette . Can ye believe that? He left a space for her to respond, so she did. Can I believe that a man as important as you was ever a copyboy or that Lanarkshire has its own gazette?

In 1989 I retired from Bell Laboratories to become a full-time writer. Not that I didn't enjoy my engineering career, but rather I liked being a novelist just a bit better.

My parents would take my sister and me out for dinner now and then, and while waiting for the food to be served, would point out the oldest, most harried looking waitress in the place, saying sternly, "Be sure you get a good education, so you don't have to do that when you're fifty!

A vida entre acadêmicos ensinara-me que uma opinião bem expressada em geral é melhor do que um fato mal expressado no que diz respeito a progresso profissional.

I never thought an opportunity like 'Crazy Rich Asians' would ever come my way.

But, if there's any aspect of my career that needs attention, it's writing.

Throughout my career I have been an advocate for women, in all aspects of their lives.

I have no political aspiration.