Quotes About Career

In Aditya Chopra's old office, there used to hang a poster of DDLJ with the following inscription by Shah Rukh Khan: "More than half my career ago, you gave me a dream to cherish all my life. My kids will see it, my grandchildren will love it and I'm sure even in heaven they are playing our film – so my parents would have seen it too. Thanx for taking me to them and making me the star I'm today. Lots of love and come let's make some more dreams together.

I knew from a young age that I wanted to be an actor. I never even thought about other careers. The acting field is certainly not the path many Indian parents encourage their children to take, but mine were very supportive. They wanted me to have an education, but understood that this is what I wanted to do.

As Sheryl Sandberg told me, "I found that when I cut my office hours dramatically once I had kids, I was not just working less, but I was more productive. Having children forced me to treat every minute of my time as precious—

That's because women are paying an even higher price than men for their participation in a work culture fueled by stress, sleep deprivation, and burnout. That is one reason why so many talented women, with impressive degrees working in high-powered jobs, end up abandoning their careers when they can afford

It's time we recognize that, as the workplace is currently structured, a lot of women don't want to get to the top and stay there because they don't want to pay the price—in terms of their health, their well-being, and their happiness.

Men who shared the load at home seemed just as pressed for time as their wives, and torn between the demands of career and small children...But the majority of men did not share the load at home. Some refused outright. Others refused more passively, often offering a loving shoulder to lean on, an understanding ear as their working wife faced the conflict they both saw as hers.

Men who leave the workforce for family reasons can expect to earn 26.4 percent less later in their careers than they would have had they never left the workforce. Women face a 23.3 percent financial penalty.

Sixty-four percent say that being a father makes them a better employee, and, according to the Boston College Center for Work and Family, more dads say that having a flexible schedule that would allow them to spend more time with their family is of greater importance than career advancement or high income. In fact, according to monster.com, 82 percent of working dads searching for a job view companies more positively if they offer a flextime benefit.

A postsecondary education is the ticket to economic success in America.

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

I was very glad I could afford to say no. With the income from my businesses, I didn't need money from acting. I never wanted to be in a financially vulnerable position, where I had to take a part I didn't like.

I liked the army, I told them, but the Munich job was a giant opportunity for my career. "Well," the officer said with a smile, "due to the fact that you are somewhat unsafe around here, we'll approve your request and let you go early. We can't have you crashing any more tanks.

I know I did the right thing by taking time off to raise my son. But it also came at a price. I turned down many opportunities over the years because I didn't want to leave him for long periods of time. And in Hollywood, as in any business, the calls stop coming when you don't answer.

What I found was a hidden source of anguish that wasn't just widespread but nearly universal among people who have done well in their careers. I came to call this the "striver's curse": people who strive to be excellent at what they do often wind up finding their inevitable decline terrifying, their successes increasingly unsatisfying, and their relationships lacking.

In his book, he interviews hundreds of people about their transitions, finding that a significant change in life occurs, on average, every eighteen months, and that lifequakes like his—or those that involve voluntary or involuntary career changes—happen very regularly. Most are involuntary—and thus unwelcome at the time—but nothing is more predictable than change.

And so it is when we professionally self-objectify: Our work is our medium, which is our message. We love the image of ourselves as successful, not ourselves in true life. But you are not your job, and I (as I have to remind myself) am not mine.

What I found was a hidden source of anguish that wasn't just widespread but nearly universal among people who have done well in their careers.

I got my qualification in accountancy, but now I prefer to concentrate on football.

I didn't have any qualifications when I left school - I had three O-levels.

You only have a true choice when you know what opportunities are out there and what qualifications you need.

I hadn't been to drama school. I hadn't been to university and acted there. I had no qualifications behind me.

I'm not qualified for anything else, so I would imagine I'd either be doing something larcenous or I would have already been caught.

What was I qualified to do to make a living? Nothing. You don't need qualifications as an actor or a politician. And I didn't want to be a politician.

I'd get another job before I would play music I don't enjoy. But then, I'm really not qualified to do anything else.