Quotes About Career

In the '60s, my father, Wally Amos, had been a talent agent and a personal manager before taking a major career detour in 1975, when he opened a store selling chocolate chip cookies.

My father has been an actor since 1964. Things were tight a lot of the times, financially. It wasn't like a big romantic adventure.

My parents had chosen the medical profession for me. I even studied a few semesters at St Xavier's College, but at the back of my mind, I always wanted to be a musician like my father.

I know how Lupe Velez felt. You fight just so long and then you begin to worry about being washed up. You fear there's one way to go and that's down.

The greatest stimulator of my running career was fear.

If you don't have a job, you don't have a fear of losing it. You fear having to get one.

I had a fear of losing, a fear of what might happen if I had a bad game. Would I get dropped? I don't remember a lot of stuff in my career.

My biggest fear had always been getting hurt, and not being able to leave the game as a player on my own terms.

If your job is draining you more than nourishing you, consider a change.

Work without interest is imprisonment. Even if you aren't super-passionate about your work, you've got to at least be interested in it. When you design a lifestyle in which your work is something you suffer through daily strictly to pay your bills, you end up spending your entire life wishing you had someone else's.

Its amazing how we will do whatever it takes to move our careers forward and increase our incomes, yet we do NOT hold the same regard for our relationships and marriages in which doing whatever it takes would improve our lives expeditiously and give us peace of mind.

Life is a matter of choice. You can be A doctor who saves life. A lawyer who defends life. A soldier who protects life. Or just be yourself a person, who touched my life..

We all have two choices. We can make a living or design a life...

You should not confuse your career with your life.

Do what you love and the money will follow.

Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come.

Many people worry so much about managing their careers, but rarely spend half that much energy managing their LIVES. I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out.

Business is the salt of life

Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.

As an entrepreneur or professional point fingers to yourself, learn from mistakes and do introspection when things have not gone well in your career.

Detox your life by clearing out fake friends, dead-end jobs, & players posing as life partners..

Yo no era más que el instrumento de unos hábitos de no trabajar.

I would ask my dad what he did, and he'd say, 'I listen to people's problems.' In some way what he did for a living is in my genes.