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Quotes About Career

Being a first-round draft pick means nothing to me without my education.
~ Unknown
If jobs are important, education is important.
~ Amartya Sen
The anger I have about high school - which I do have because they discouraged every interest I ever had; actually I call it anti-education - that anger led to my career.
~ John Waters
'Doctor Who' was my first telly job, and before that I did a lot of theatre in education, children's theatre.
~ Sophie Aldred
I wasnt using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.
~ Charlie Trotter
I think the education I've had as an actor I would never have had at university.
~ Kristin Kreuk
I use every single thing that Alfred Hitchcock taught me in my acting career I am very grateful for the education he gave me in making motion pictures.
~ Tippi Hedren
Learn how to cook. Read books that will educate you. Get an education. Get a career. And support yourself. And live in a section of town that isn't conducive to violence.
~ Chris Rock
I've spent the better part of my career in politics and public policy working on and fighting for education reforms.
~ Mark McKinnon
With homework, school prepares students for overtime. With reports, it prepares them for payday.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
One can earn a thousand credentials but remain unemployed.
~ Unknown
Just as a CEO could care less about pay equity, the university administrator is unconcerned with how many of her program graduates secure employment of any particular quality.
~ Unknown
School programs the schooled to type a CV. Life inspires the unschooled to type a business plan.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"Do you think your boy will forget all he learned in college?" "I hope so. He can't make a living drinking."
~ Larry Wilde
It's emotional blackmail to say if you're a good businesswoman and a musician, you're betraying your music.
~ Tori Amos
There are all kinds of other things I could do, things I would probably like, but only acting would give me emotional fulfillment.
~ Mira Sorvino
Early in my career as an engineer, I'd learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional.
~ Ben Horowitz
My whole career I've been interested by the distinction between an emotional and an intellectual response to an artwork.
~ Janet Echelman
We need timeless principles to steer by in running our organizations and building our personal careers. We need high standards --- the ethics of excellence.
~ Price Pritchett
And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree.
~ Donald Norman
Marriage is no substitute for political experience.
~ Sharad Pawar
I would strongly encourage anybody embarking on photography as a career to embrace and enjoy the whole process. Being a photographer can be a wonderful way to experience the world.
~ Michael Kenna
Acting is something I appreciate, and I think it's been an amazing experience. But I'm not passionate about acting the way you probably should be to call yourself an actor.
~ Evangeline Lilly
I have spoken with many former athletes, and they tell me the best time they had was in sports. I listen to them and use their experience in my career.
~ Sergei Bubka