Quotes About Career

All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor.

You work on a show like 'All My Children' - we know what it is, but you're still able to grow outside of it. It's the perfect situation. I learned. I grew as an actor. I worked with professionals. I got paid.

Well, I didn't grow up with that word 'retirement' as part of my consciousness. I didn't grow up with professionals that retired. I thought retiring was when you are tired and go to bed.

To young professionals - and particularly women - looking to advance, it is imperative to keep your life in balance.

I am no different from so many professionals who go on maternity leave only towards the end of their pregnancy.

Someone taught us how to craft a resume, what to wear to a job interview and not to put our elbows on the table. Athletes also must be trained as professionals. Their livelihoods depend on it.

When it's time to fight, we're professionals. It's our jobs and careers. Respect must always exist.

Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.

The roles do get fewer as you get older. That's the same for all professions, there's fewer roles for people later in life. I don't think it should be like that because as long as you are able to do your job then people should keep working with you. It shouldn't come down to age.

The childhood poverty of both my parents and their minimal education did much to influence me and my two younger brothers in our education and career choices. One brother became a dentist and the other, a professor of anthropology with a Ph.D. degree.

It was always assumed I would be a professor. I grew up thinking it.

My mother was a professor and she would wake me up at 5:30 every morning. I've had that routine since I was a child. So it's not tough to wake up and face the camera at any time now.

I know myself. I'm not gonna be a mathematician or a professor.

I guess if I weren't an actor, I'd be a history professor.

My mother ended up getting a Ph.D. of her own, in chemistry, and eventually became a tenured professor.

I wanted to be a political science professor and go to school in Boston. I never wanted to be a big, famous movie star and TV star. It kind of found me.

My dad for a long time was an accounting professor at Rice University. And then he went out on his own, and he got hired by a client. He ended up being CEO of a hospital management company before he retired, called Lifemark.

I haven't always known I wanted to act. I wanted to be a farmer, an English professor, or an archaeologist.

I was a mere 29-year-old instructor at Kyoto, enjoying daily research work with some young students. Nothing had prepared me to be a professor at a major national university. Being too young and inexperienced to be a Full Professor, I was first appointed Associate Professor of Chemistry.

I was a professor for 20 years, 12 of those at Emory University.

My father, a math professor in Hong Kong, worked as an electrical engineer here. My mother was an art teacher, but once we came to the United States, she went back to school and became certified as a special-education teacher.

When I hit 50, I want to go be a professor.

Many professors tell you that you'd be good at this or that, but they don't always help you with that career path.

Both my parents are professors, and I never really saw people do any other jobs, so I didn't really know how to want a different kind of job.