Quotes About Career

In theater, you sometimes can only do one or two jobs a year because they're long periods. In film, you can shoot so many. It's quite interesting.

You don't get to see your family much. In the movie business, directors often go out of town for long periods of time, and even if you're in town, you're working 14-15 hour days. People tend to not balance out the important things in their lives with their career.

I wanted to make an album that takes a journey through all my favorite periods in music and then culminates in something that will most likely end my career.

My mother worked when I was growing up, so I was under the impression I'd find it easy to be a working mum. But I found it very hard to be away from my family, even for short periods of time.

There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months.

As an actor, you're not working every day and sometimes not for long periods of time.

When somebody takes themselves seriously that's fodder for comedy. I think every musician goes through certain periods of their career where they're all guilty of that - Spandau Ballet included.

OK, so I'm a working mom that also gets to kiss George Clooney. That's a little bit of a perk of the job.

One of the perks of growing up, but also one of the biggest challenges, is making decisions about the future. Deciding what kind of job you want, whether you want to finish school, or whether you want to go to university are huge choices to make.

I never believed that my service in the U.S. Congress should become a permanent career.

Anderson Cooper every night dreams about getting my job permanently really.

It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.

I was never going to be one of those women who put their career on hold, who put their hand out to their husband to ask permission. I used to think that was the worst.

I actually started my career interning at Perry Ellis and got to work with Marc Jacobs.

I still have a belief and a faith that some great things are still going to happen in my career. If I didn't believe that, it makes no sense for me to be out there, and on top of that, I know this is a period of time that God wants me to persevere through.

Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.

Public, noncommercial broadcasting is also giving kids social-emotional skills like persistence and self-control that are fundamental to success in school, not to mention in the military, the institution where I spent most of my career.

I'm just an ordinary person who has an extraordinary job.

In my career, I really set out not to develop too strong a persona so that you wouldn't have a hard time imagining me in any given role. I wanted to pleasantly confuse the audience on who I was.

Should it happen tomorrow, I would fall to my knees to give thanks to God for such a career.

I'm convinced that business success in the future starts with the question, What should I do with my life? Yes, that's right.... People don't succeed by migrating to a "hot" industry (one word: dotcom) or by adopting a particular career-guiding mantra (remember "horizontal careers"?). They thrive by focusing on the question of who they really are--and connecting that to work that they truly love (and, in so doing, unleashing a productive and creative power that they never imagined).

People who had been through a lot reported that they changed their life, or got clarity, when they became conscious of what kind of person a certain job/industry/lifestyle was turning them into.

The most incredible thing about my career is that I had one.

An employee who remains fool have a ton of fun in the corporate world.