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Quotes About Career

As far as feeling freedom in my career now versus five years ago... I think if I feel any more free it's simply because of the experiences that I've had, and the wisdom I've accumulated from that time.
~ Mary Chapin Carpenter
There's time for a boyfriend in my life. But he would have to be understanding. He would have to understand that often I will be travelling and playing.
~ Anna Kournikova
A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.
~ Marilyn Monroe
They've said I want to direct pictures. I couldn't direct traffic.
~ Marilyn Monroe
A job is what we do for money; work is what we do for love.
~ Unknown
I've never been in love. I've always been a lawyer.
~ Proverb
My father always told me, 'Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
~ Jim Fox
Do what you love and the business will follow.
~ Unknown
To be successful, the first thing to do is to fall in love with your work.
~ Sister Mary Lauretta
Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.
~ Elbert Hubbard
I want to thank my parents for letting me play baseball. I'm thankful I had baseball knuckles and couldn't become a dentist...I got $2,100 a year when I started in the big league, and they get more money now. ...I chased the balls that Babe Ruth hit.
~ Casey Stengel
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
~ Mary Engelbreit
The disassociation between inner belief and outer behaviour allowed many people to enjoy a sense of retaining their inner decency while at the same time not risking any loss of livelihood, any compromise over career ambitions, let alone any potentially more sanctions; hence never revealing any signs of disagreement or openly showing anything less than apparently full commitment to the regime and its policies
~ Unknown
I often think how unadventurous my life must seem from the outside, though I do like my job.
~ Mary Hoffman
Joyce ain't no exception. I suspect she got that job because she always had the right people in her corner and she was easy to train.
~ Unknown
The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.
~ Mary Roberts Rinehart
The trouble was that she could not see herself without money, and it seems never to have occurred to her that she could earn it.
~ Mary Roberts Rinehart
The nation's forests were being cut faster than they could grow back. In the 1890s, while Aldo was growing up, the United States had begun to set aside forest reserves to protect the trees. Then, while Aldo was in high school, one of the country's first forestry schools opened at Yale University. Aldo knew immediately what he wanted to do. If he could become a forester, he could get paid to work in the woods all day. How could a job get any better?
~ Unknown
Our career is a dream. I mean, we get to act, travel around the world, and meet cool people. What's not to love!
~ Mary-Kate Olsen
We kinda look at this as the second or third chapter of our lives. After college, most people figure out what they want to do with their lives. But we already know what we want to do in the future and that is to continue to further our business goals.
~ Mary-Kate Olsen
Hard-hearted people may be no fun to sit next to at parties, but they are just as entitled to earn a living as the rest of us. Fortunately-for them, at least-the need for insurance adjusters, tax collectors, theater critics, and the like continues to this very day.
~ Unknown
A job is what we do for money work is what we do for love.
~ Unknown
I would never want to live in L.A., and I made that decision years ago, so I never chose that path for myself, although I have much respect for those that do it at a high level.
~ Matt Cameron
If your movies don't perform, they just stop calling you.
~ Matt Damon