Quotes About Career

Success is.. loving what you do and doing what you love.

Dress for the position you want, not the position you have.

Thirty-five things have to go wrong for the best thing to happen in your career

Some business coaches may disagree with me, but I wholeheartedly teach my community to start businesses around what you love doing.

Your job as a young adult is to become as valuable to the marketplace as you can. Your job as a human is to do so without working a day in your life.

I was a snowboard instructor, I was a bouncer in a nightclub, I was a whitewater river guide for many years. I worked as a teacher. I make no apologies for a very varied set of life experiences.

I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.

Being a teacher at a restaurant in the town where you lived was a little like being a TV star.

The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.

If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.

At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how I replied that I wanted to be a poet.

"It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever" he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?"

I want to be a science teacher. My friends asked me why, but I'm intrigued by it and I'm quite good at science at school.

My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor

I consider myself lucky to have had wonderful teachers. They expose you to a lot and basically teach you how to paint. I think of my career as a series of lucky incidents.

Being a high school teacher was wonderful, but unsustainable: I needed a way out.

My dad was also a teacher until he was 34. I think there is a basis in reality. But I'd only done two jobs before I was an actor. I worked in a petrol station and I worked in a supermarket.

If you say "I'm going to be an actor, but I'll get a teaching degree just in case," when things get hard, you'll just be a teacher and that's how you get stuck.

We must question why the smartest students don't choose to become teachers.

In actual fact, I have been an academic - a college and university teacher and scholar - for much of the last 45 years, and only rarely a writer.

I always wanted to be a teacher.

I certainly never expected to be a professional actor. I never expected to be in movies. I thought I would probably become a teacher.

When I started performing, I decided that if in five years I couldn't earn as much money acting as I could as a teacher, it would be unrealistic for me to continue on the stage.

It actually has transcended my career at the Geographic, so that when my career there ended, I had momentum as a teacher, and a belief in photographic education at the workshop level.