Quotes About Career

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. —LILY TOMLIN

How can an intelligent person, committed to choosing a new career path, decide exactly which direction to pursue?

If you love math, have a knack for numbers, study hard and become a successful accountant; who cares if you can't draw a straight line or sing on key?

I don't plan on going back to legal work. I wanted an international career, and finance seemed to be where some interesting career opportunities were.

No matter what your chosen profession, be prepared for opportunity and be willing to take it—your destiny may depend on it.

If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point.

My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldn't be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead.

All the discussions about flexi-time or dress-down Fridays or paternity leave only serve to mask the core issue, which is that certain job and career choices are fundamentally incompatible with being meaningfully engaged on a day-to-day basis with a young family.

Food has been my career, my hobby, and, it must be said, my escape.

Gradually, therefore, Tientietnikov grew more at home in the Service. Yet never did it become, for him, the main pursuit, the main object in life, which he had expected. No, it remained but one of a secondary kind. That is to say, it served merely to divide up his time, and enable him the more to value his hours of leisure.

I'm only forty-two—the age at which service just seriously begins.

You stay home and raise daughters, who grow up and get jobs and then feel pity for you, their stay-at-home mothers.

Every modern woman who rejects the double standard, who combines a career with life as a mother, who demands personal

I am going to spend my time today just thanking the people that played a role in my career, because I truly do believe that I was blessed by a lot of people that paths crossed mine as I went down the road in my career.

I became a musician so I wouldn't have to get up at 6 in the morning.

I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this.

If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.

the only means by which field-grade officers can expect a promotion is combat.

I would never have been a good scientist—my attention span was too short for that.

His air of innocent questioning confused me. Either he really didn't know what he was saying, or he had a career waiting in Hollywood.

Professional men, they have no cares; Whatever happens, they get theirs.

What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.

Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people whom you come in contact everyday.

I got to work with one of my heroes, Johnny Depp, and to see how he goes about business, which was really inspiring for me at this stage in my career.