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Quotes About Career

Or maybe they don't even want babies, some of these women, and life opens out to them in an endless field of work. And once in a while the world responds in a big way, letting them in, giving them a key, a crown. It does happen, it does. But usually it doesn't.
~ Meg Wolitzer
Parents were the ones who handed you law school admission test study guides unprompted, and when you responded with revulsion or rage, they defensively said, "But I just wanted you to have something to fall back on.
~ Meg Wolitzer
Everyone else seemed to be circling their desired careers, not inhabiting them yet.
~ Meg Wolitzer
Does [your music] have to be a job? And as for your actual job...do you have to think of [it] as a consolation prize? ...What if you just *played*? Isn't it possible you'd also like your job more, because you wouldn't think of it as something that's secretly had to replace this other thing?
~ Meg Wolitzer
I'm psychology major who has no desire to work with people.
~ Megan McCafferty
Work *is* depressing, if you don't love what you do" -Drea
~ Megan McCafferty
This is the stupidest plan I have ever in my career participated in," Xenophon said. "I love stupid plans," said Eugenides.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
Even with men doing more parenting than before, the majority of women are still left facing the well-rehearsed motherhood-versus-career dichotomy. But it's not a dichotomy; its a socially organized choice masquerading as a natural one.
~ Meghan Daum
when women acquire critical skills and start weighing their options, they soon wise up to the fact that they're not getting enough recompense for their labors.
~ Meghan Daum
Because I've made a film with such an amazing director as Tarantino, I'm much more conscious of working with good directors from now on, so that's what's important to me. I don't really care about making a big movie - I just want to make good ones.
~ Melanie Laurent
My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.
~ Melinda Gates
When I was a child I used to read books by Gerald Durrell, who founded Jersey Zoo. He had a job collecting animals for zoos and for a long time that is what I wanted to do. Later when I was a teenager I had a fantastic English teacher called Mrs. Stafford. Her enthusiasm made me decide to be a writer.
~ Melvin Burgess
I used to joke that if acting didn't work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback.
~ Merritt Wever
The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.
~ Meryl Streep
I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.
~ Meryl Streep
I've never done a teen movie before, but I certainly could tell you some of the ones I came very close on. I was very close on Clueless and She's All That.
~ Mia Kirshner
As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you're relying on the business.
~ Mia Wasikowska
Keep your section solvent, keep your job.
~ Unknown
We live in a world where you're not being eaten by a lion when you fail, you just have to get another job.
~ Michael Arrington
People come to work to succeed. It's our responsibility as managers to support them so that they do. Every person has the right to succeed every time they do their job, and they also have the right to have a successful career.
~ Unknown
People don't realize that if they began working in their twenties and retire at age sixty that they may spend as much time in retirement as they did working.
~ Unknown
This book will show you the benefit of applying a completely different perspective to advance your career. We are looking at criminal environments to derive the influencing methodology and strategy, from psychopaths or criminal profilers.
~ Unknown
You mean people pay you to do this to them? I thought you had captured these people and brought them here against their will! How do I become a dentist?
~ Michael Buckley
I don't work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I can't refuse - and I'm not talking about money.
~ Michael Caine