Quotes About Career

I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was - because I had graphic instances of it - handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, 'I don't want Jean-Luc Picard in my movie' - and this was compounded by X-Men as well.

I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.

Without realizing it, I had said goodbye to traditional employment. I never punched a clock again. I made my own time and my own money.

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RESIGN! It's the way to show you mean business. If people constantly reject your ideas/ what you have to offer, resign. You can't keep fighting and losing that makes you a problem. If you are good, and right for the job, resignation will not be accepted. You'll be re-signed in your own term. If they accept your resignation, you were in the wrong job, and it's better for you to move on. It takes courage, but it is the right move.

It's like the specter of segregation has brought the city of Dickens back together again." I decided to give my new career as City Planner in Charge of Restoration and Segregation another six months. If things didn't work out, I could always fall back on being black.

For the kids at Chaff, the annual Career Day, held about two weeks before the summer break, was enough to make most of them at contemplate career suicide before they'd even taken an aptitude test or a written resume. Held outdoors on the schoolyard blacktop, the assemblage of coal miners, driving-range golf-ball retrievers, basket weavers, ditch diggers, book-binders, traumatized fire-fighters, and the world's last astronaut never does much to inspire.

For many people a job is more than an income — it's an important part of who we are. So a career transition of any sort is one of the most unsettling experiences you can face in your life.

An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel.

It is because my dad died suddenly that I became an actor. I thought, I'm going to make money doing this thing I enjoy.

As an actor, to have achieved financial stability is amazing. But I always have this weird fear that I'm not going to get any more work it's about not having enough money.

Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.

My fiction-writing career owes it start to the bad navigation of an 18th century pirate. For it was

Did I want a lawyer? Hell no, I didn't even want to be a lawyer.

The embarrassing thing is that my salad dressing is out-grossing my films.

Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science.

I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I'll make pretty good movies the rest of my life.

Het uitgangspunt van competentiegericht onderwijs richt zich op de vaardigheden die van belang zijn voor een baan.

I'm into being a dad, that's where my focus is most of the time. I'm an actor that's my job, but it's not my life. I have a lot of other interests too.

One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.

I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.

When she left him, she swore she would "never try it again," meaning marriage. But I don't think she knew how to be fully herself when she was with a man or could feel anything but baffled by the competing demands of career and domesticity. Her struggles are poignant and real to me, and all too familiar

parents moved to Rome in order that their only daughter might receive a better education. They encouraged her to become a teacher, the only career open to women at the time. However, Montessori was a women's

Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas.