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Quotes About Career

I think you chose the wrong career path. You should have gone into acting because you're so good at pretending to be something you're not.
~ Unknown
Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you're going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries.
~ Unknown
How do you juggle having a career, trying to get an education and being the best mom on the block?
~ Unknown
The direction in which education leads a man will determine his future.
~ Unknown
To integrate life and work successfully, honor what your commitment is towards life and what you want over the long arch of your life and career.
~ Unknown
There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
~ Unknown
Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.
~ Katherine Whitehorn
If you plan on working for someone else for the rest of your life, then plan on working for the rest of your life.
~ Unknown
I always thought of losing my virginity as a career move.
~ Madonna
Losing my virginity was a career move.
~ Madonna
I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.
~ Magic Johnson
Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.
~ Mahesh Bhupathi
The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
~ Malcolm Forbes
It's not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether or not our work fulfills us. Being a teacher is meaningful.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
It's already a good thing to have done a job you did enjoy at one point. That's pretty rare.
~ Unknown
If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life.
~ Marc Anthony
This was arguably the most disgraceful episode in the bishop's chequered career,
~ Unknown
He was one of that class of men who, apart from a scientific career in which they may well have proved brilliantly successful, have acquired an entirely different kind of culture, literary or artistic, for which their professional specialisation has no use but by which their conversation profits.
~ Marcel Proust
You ever run into the Phantom Dog? One of the scariest characters I ever encountered in my whole career.
~ John R. Erickson
Cardenia gawked at Rachela I. "You're unbelievable." "I worked in marketing," Rachela I said. "Before I was a prophet. After, too, but we didn't call it that after that point.
~ John Scalzi
I worked in marketing," Rachela I said. "Before I was a prophet. After, too, but we didn't call it that after that point.
~ John Scalzi
What was your job back on Earth? I've always been curious. I taught eighth-grade math in Tallahassee. Huh, I said. That's not what I expected. Are you kidding? Powell said back. You try teaching algebra to a bunch of little shitheads for thirty-eight years straight. The way I figure it I've got about another decade before my rage from that gets entirely burned up.
~ John Scalzi
I'm trying to decide what I want to be when I grow up. A nice thing to wonder about when you're thirty.
~ John Scalzi
Or, to put it more succinctly: Writing professionally is a business. If you want to write professionally, you have to approach writing in a professional manner—which is to say, you have to approach it with the intent of actually making money doing it. This means: One: It takes work. Lots and lots and lots of work. Two: Sometimes, work sucks. Three: But you do it anyway because that's your job. The previous three rules, incidentally, work
~ John Scalzi