Quotes About Career

Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.

As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only by lucky circumstances.

Life is a mission, not a career.

He that hath a calling, hath an office of profit and honor.

Acting was a way out at first. A way out of not knowing what to do, a way of focusing ambitions. And the ambition wasn't for fame. The ambition was to do an interesting job.

I love my hockey, but if you can do that and go home and just be a dad and husband, then you have the best of both worlds.

Most people didn't pursue their passions simply because of the promise of a paycheck. They pursued them because they couldn't imagine doing anything else with their lives.

I just knew that economics had never been my big motivation.

I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies.

I don't know where the hell I'll be in 5 years. Maybe I'll be producing movies maybe I'll be on a corner selling apples. I don't know, but I'm having a hell of a lot of fun.

I was frustrated. I was doing some bad movies, movies that I knew going in were not going to be great.

I've always wanted to write movies - I always used to tell my mom that I wanted to be a director.

Even though I started off being interested in news, and I spent 13 years of my career working in television sports, I always was passionate about television and movies.

In order to build a career and to be successful, one has to be determined. One has to be ambitious. I much prefer to drink coffee, listen to music and to paint when I feel like it.

When I was a little boy, I told my dad, 'When I grow up, I want to be a musician.' My dad said: 'You can't do both, Son'.

I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world.

Music is my love and to me acting is more mercenary. I don't pound the pavements for roles: if it happens, it happens. I hate that auditioning thing.

One of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.

Only become a musician if there is absolutely no other way you can make a living.

When I'm 40, too old to be a rock star, I plan to go back to college to study classical music.

I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction.

I tattooed my body so I couldn't fall back on anything. I purposely did that so I couldn't get a normal job and live a normal life. I did it so I had to play music.

I still love playing music. It was all I ever wanted to do, and I got the chance to do it.

I should think that being my old lady would be all the satisfaction or career any woman needs.