Quotes About Career

If you love what you do, it isn't your job, it is your love affair.

Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.

I always feel vulnerable talking about the poetry aspect of my career because it's little diary entries that I need to sometimes close read, and to reveal that much, it's a bit nerve-racking.

I consider poetry my vocation, not my "career." My career is as a university professor; that's what pays the bills.

Murphy Brown is doing better than I am. At least she knows she still has a job next year.

Most of the founders of this country had day jobs for years. They were not career politicians. ... We need leaders with experience in the real world, not experience in the phony world of politics.

I entered politics in 1967; since then, continuously, I am getting elected... Fortunately I never lost the elections.

I was raised with the idea that if you're not smart enough to do science you can do politics.

I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.

He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.

Those who can't teach - administrate. Those who can't administrate - go into politics.

In elective politics, it's up or out. You go up the ladder, or you get out of the game.

Our politics suffers from a shortage of people who put character and country before career and personal gain.

I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.

Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.

From early on, everything I did was calculated to being elected to Congress.

Becoming a politician is the only step down I could take from being a journalist.

I was on leave from local and regional politics, as long as I was a Minister.

So my degree was in political science, which I think was - the closest I could come to marketing is politics.

You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest.

I never played politics, I was never a party girl, and I never slept with any of the producers.

In politics there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers, and then there are those like John McCain who use their careers to promote change.

We live in an age where in politics, people can't disagree with each other without good faith being questioned, there is always an ulterior motive - in it for the money, advance a career.

Professional politicians like to talk about the value of experience in government. Nuts! The only experience you gain in politics is how to be political.