Quotes About Career

Being funny was something I was doing before I understood what that even was. Now I'm making a career out of it.

As much as I miss the work, I don't miss NBC. I don't miss being there. It was just the wrong atmosphere for me.

I've been fortunate enough to play for Leeds and Anderlecht, who are massive in Belgium.

My belief and goal is that every professional in the world should be on a service liked LinkedIn.

Everyone wants to belong, and everyone needs to belong in order to make a career on some level.

Before Hollywood happened to me, I just took a break to think about whether I belong in the industry or whether I should be listening to whatever people were telling me.

Getting into acting was a challenge for me as I belonged to a political family.

My beloved father passed away just two months after I told him I was going to start a company. Whenever I make progress in my career, I wish I could share the news with my father.

I work in an industry where most people are way below 50.

When you get the opportunity to work with somebody like Jude Law, there is a fear. They've got lots of stuff under their belt.

Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th Century invention and I don't want one. You don't need to worry about me; I have a college education. I'm not destitute. I'm living like this by choice.

Having stumbled upon a tolerable career, for the first time in my life I was actually living above the poverty line. My hunger to climb had been blunted, in short, by a bunch of small satisfactions that added up to something like happiness.

Chris answered that careers were demeaning twentieth-century inventions, more of a liability than an asset, and that he would do fine without one, thank you.

Perhaps this tragedy causes us to ask some tough questions about how we can permit so many of our children to languish in poverty or attend dilapidated schools or grow up without prospects for a job or for a career. Perhaps it causes us to examine what we're doing to cause some of our children to hate.

What we do, when we fuck up, we don't lose our job. We lose our vocation.

If I had a spouse and two kids to support I certainly would not be telling 'jokes' like he was doing at a conference.

Men, - men, - jo mer han så i det, jo klarere gikk det opp for ham, at det, når alt kom til alt, dog var der, - i kjærligheten - og merkelig nok ikke i hans embedskarriere eller stolte opposisjon, - at han hadde levd sitt egentlige innerste, dypeste liv gjennom sorg og glede.

Charles was at the apex of his career, coming off a Lannan Fellowship year and a front-page Times review that had anointed him as the heir of John Barth and Stanley Elkin, but he didn't know it was the apex.

His recording career spans just a decade: Rude was silenced by drug abuse and domestic tragedy at the end of the '70s.

We spent our lives making livings.

But there was always work to be done. We spent our lives making livings.

I have already told you Father, more than once: I'm not going to subject myself to a husband chosen for me, I'm not going to bury myself in some planter's kitchen, and I'm not going to be a servant to some doctor or lawyer in Ilhéus. I want to live my own life. When I finish school at the end of the year, I want to go to work in an office

Me moría por terminar el bachillerato y empezar la universidad. Luego, moría por terminar la universidad y empezar a trabajar. Después, me moría por casarme y tener hijos. Más adelante, me moría por que mis hijos crecieran lo suficiente como para ir a la escuela, a fin de que yo pudiera volver a mi trabajo. Luego me moría por retirarme. Y ahora que estoy muriéndome, me doy cuenta, de pronto, ¡que me olvidé de vivir! [Autor anónimo]

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money [not for purpose or passion]- has turned himself into a slave.