Quotes About Career

My decision to become a lawyer was irrevocably sealed when I realized my father hated the legal profession.

Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors.

My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands.

Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.

Ive always liked the idea of being a father. And Ive always romanticised it, because I lost my father when I was young. In a way, all of the complications that come with my career are about that.

At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.

My father did advertising photography.

You don't want to do what your parents want you to do. You got your own things. And the whole idea of getting a job because of who your father is - that didn't isn't right.

I think I'm a better doctor than I am a husband. I give myself a good grade as a doctor, then the next best grade as a father, and the worst grade as a husband.

It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job other than at one's best ability.

I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.

It must be quite difficult if you have a father who's sort of known. On the other hand, you can get a job in his band.

My father was a television director and I always knew I wanted to be in the industry but I had thought my role was behind the camera as opposed to in front.

When you're a kid and your father is an engineer, he goes to the office. I saw my father get up and go to the office in the house and write. But I don't see any similarities.

My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.

Father: 'Anything but journalism.' I rebelled.

I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, 'sociologist.'

My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.

Everybody I knew, practically, was a journalist when I was a kid - my father, all of his friends. I never wanted to be like those people.

I've been working since I was 14, and my father, being very conservative, has always been strict about my having a savings account.

My father was a lawyer.

My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician.

Later, at Stanford University, I thought I'd become a lawyer or businessman, but my father came to me and said he thought there was a big future in the fine-wine business.

My father was not able to get all the vinyl he used to listen to with me. He couldn't travel as he did it because of his profession as a diplomatic career.