Quotes About Career

Are you an environmentalist or do you work for a living

L'unica ragione per cui faccio questo stupido lavoro è...be', suppongo che di ragioni ce ne siano un sacco, ma il fatto è che se mi metto a stendere un elenco di tutte le ragioni possibili, l'unico che sono sicurissimo di non poter citare è che questo lavoro mi piaccia, perché non mi piace per niente. E io ho proprio la stramba idea che la gente sta meglio quando fa un lavoro che le piace.

I supposed if you were going to make a career of breaking laws, you might as well know them.

Nah. I'm a consultant, of course. Everyone's favorite nondescript yet well-paid white-collar job.

You always said I should quit the bookstore and find something else to do," I reminded him. "Yes, but that was because I thought you'd go on to do something respectable. Like become a stripper or the mayor's mistress.

My mother should have been an attorney. She and Abe could have opened a law firm together.

las cinco necesidades más básicas de tu vida: un propósito para vivir, personas con quienes vivir, principios para vivir, una profesión que desarrollar y el poder para vivir.

For people with valuable, rare, or in-demand skills, however, the rewards are likely to be rich indeed. This last chapter of the book discusses how you should be thinking about your personal career strategy in light of transient advantages.

you can't be a doctor. Only boys can be doctors. Leroy's got to be the doctor. You're full of shit, Spiegelglass, Leroy's dumber than I am. I got to be doctor because I'm the smart one and being a girl don't matter. You'll see. You think you can do what boys do but you're going to be a nurse, no two ways about it. It doesn't matter about brains, brains don't count. What counts is whether you're a boy or a girl. I hauled off and belted her one.

Course I didn't want to be a doctor. I was going to be president only I kept it secret.

You'll see. You think you can do what boys do but you're going to be a nurse, no two ways about it. It doesn't matter about brains, brains don't count. What counts is whether you're a boy or a girl.

It doesn't matter what I think. It matters what you think, Donny boy. Tonight was the best thing that could have happened to you. You will now either get out of the business and lead a normal life

Unless one was going to become a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, an engineer or some other kind of professional person, I saw little point in wasting three or four years at Oxford or Cambridge, and I still hold this view.

Getting a paycheck for doing that thing you love may actually ruin it.

The second most powerful man in the country." All his life Lyndon Johnson had been taking "nothing jobs" and making them into something—something big. And now, no sooner

But, in the fight of his later career, what is most interesting is that when he realized that, because of the handicap of his religion, his brilliance and idealism would not take him to the top in the world of Yale, he made, within Yale, a world of his own, and a world, moreover, in which, in collegiate terms, he had power and influence.

his congressional career almost before it began. Herman

Hell, was no military man; was computer technician who had bumbled into wrong field.

I hadn't been surprised when he kicked over his career to stand up for what he felt was right. Real officers did that.

On the train to London, with those successfully exposed rolls in my bag, I hated myself and my profession. This sort of photography was only for undertakers, and I didn't like being one. If I was to share the funeral, I swore, I would have to share the procession.

As he later wrote, if he believed there were things he couldn't do, he would still be working at the meatpacking plant in Sioux City.

He left ICM last year to start his own talent agency and things just haven't gone the way they should. He's had to worry about the house payments and the cars and schools.

When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.

If it is money, you will choose a place for your apprenticeship that offers the biggest paycheck. Inevitably, in such a place you will feel greater pressures to prove yourself worthy of such pay, often before you are really ready.