Quotes About Career

Toward the end of my career, people started talking Hall of Fame, but still, you don't ever think you're going to end up there.

I've made a career off of Halloween.

I made that decision around the time of 'Halloween,' whether I wanted to continue trying to be a singer and rock and roll player or get into movies.

I grew up in south London and spent most of my adolescence in the snooker halls of the area, turning professional at 17.

I wish to play again for West Ham before I finish my career.

I was enjoying life at West Ham; I really was. I wanted to do the whole five years there, become a favourite with the fans, and end my career there.

I was at Arsenal but I didn't like the manager of the under-10s at the time so I went to West Ham where my brother played.

If audiences are sort of interested in movies that are made like McDonald's hamburgers, which do have a value in the world, then we have to re-evaluate our entire career.

I had a good theater career for years. I played Hamlet when I was 22, and I've played some really great roles.

I got my first blockbuster break for the movie 'Cocktail,' where I sang 'Second Hand Jawani.'

There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.

Hawthorne finally found his life's calling. "I do not want to be a doctor and live by men's diseases; nor a minister to live by their sins; nor a lawyer and live by their quarrels," he wrote passionately to his mother. "So I don't see that there is anything left for me but to be an author.

In the future, people who are not coaches will not be promoted. — JACK WELCH, former chairman and CEO of General Electric

Being a full prof at the University of Texas at El Paso meant living like a managing director at Barclays. Barry had always wondered why people who were just upper-middle class in New York chose to stay there, given that they could live like minor dictators in the rest of the country. "You're negative arbing yourself," he used to say.

But what kind of profession is this, writer?" my mother would ask. "You want to be this?" I want to be this.

Struggling to be a genius is endemic to young artists who are starting their careers, but after being bloodied a few times, they just hope that they won't be ridiculed in the press or on television by those few who have the power to coronate them or tear them down.

Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby!

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.

I wanted to get a job as a gynecologist, but I couldn't find an opening.

what secular avocation on earth was there for a young man (whose friends could not get him an 'appointment') which was at once gentlemanly, lucrative, and to be followed without special knowledge?

I wouldn't make a downright lawyer o' the lad,—I should be sorry for him to be a raskill,—but a sort o' engineer, or a surveyor, or an auctioneer and vallyer, like Riley, or one o' them smartish businesses as are all profits and no outlay, only for a big watch-chain and a high stool.

Because of the runaway loss of satisfying work, education has radically changed.

Women are working for part or all of their adult lives now. The possibilities are limitless, but you need to prepare.

We can be mothers and have careers. We can finish our education with children in tow. Is it a challenge? Yep. But women are made for challenges. We are strong enough to handle the challenges presented to us. It's what we were made to do.