Quotes About Career

Je?li nadejdzie dzie?, gdy wejdziesz do sali rozpraw, spojrzysz na ?aw? przysi?g?ych i nie b?dziesz czu? strachu, b?dzie to znak, ?e czas zako?czy? karier?.

In his thirty-four years at the same desk, Ed had processed all of them.

On the downside, there are pretty serious motivational problems, especially among the young. Why go to college and pursue a career when your income is guaranteed for life? Why try and find a job?

I was a street lawyer, and I could dress any way I wanted.

He was headed for Wall Street and had been sidetracked by the money. Only the money.

There's no mandatory retirement age for drug dealers.

Samantha closed her eyes for a few seconds and tried to put it all in perspective. Yesterday morning she had arrived at her desk in the world's largest law firm, one that paid her handsomely and had the promise of a long, profitable career. Now, about thirty hours later, she was unemployed, sitting in the café at Kramerbooks and trying to hustle her way into a temporary, unpaid gig about as deep in the boonies as one could possibly wander.

I'm sure that if I stay in this business I'll one day think of a dirtier trick, but one's hard to imagine now.

For his day job, Delgado ran

it began to sink in that whoever married her was likely to become king and could make or break their careers.

for that is all it was—was the greatest faux pas of his career.

The author meets an African-American who observes that his fellows who begin with aspirations to a good education, solid career, and the raising of a family slowly lose that incentive. Even those who have a college education, he observes, need to take menial jobs and begin to look for excitement in less productive places.

If (a writer) has applied himself to an art for 15 or 20 years and they've gotten good at it, and they're expected to do something else to support themselves while the industry that sells this craft supports itself very well, something is badly wrong. Morally wrong.

Vielleicht muss es im Leben eines Schriftstellers diesen Augenblick geben, in dem ein anderer Schriftsteller beschuldigt wird, seinen Beruf verfehlt zu haben.

Unfortunately, Bretorius had found mediocrity too high a bar. He had advanced in the fleet the old-fashioned way: he'd stuck around so long they had to give him a command, or muster him out.

John Gibson Lockhart, writing in Blackwood's Magazine, described Endymion as "imperturbable drivelling idiocy". With biting sarcasm, Lockhart advised, "It is a better and a wiser thing to be a starved apothecary than a starved poet; so back to the shop Mr John, back to plasters, pills, and ointment boxes

Goldman Sachs is famous for rigidly refusing to hire someone and promote them at the same time. For

They also reflect, at this relatively early stage in Kennan's career, one of his most persistent paradoxes: that he understood the Soviet Union far better than he did the United States.

If you get your education, then you've got your platform set up for you.

Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.

Of all the purposes of education, I think the most useful is this: It prepares you to keep yourself entertained. It gives you a better chance of an interesting job.

When I finished high school, I was 16, and in Argentina you have to choose a career right after high school. There is no such thing as a liberal arts education.

An education is a more surefire guarantee that you have possibilities opened to you.

When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office.