Quotes About Career

As his own end approached, Elliott reflected on a life that had been "undistinguished, albeit mildly notorious," and tremendous fun. He had known indignity, misfortune, and intimate betrayal, but his fund of natural optimism never ran out. "I feel I have been extraordinarily lucky," he wrote. "I look back on my career with some wonderment

Life is unpredictable," I told them, thinking of both my own career path and the economy and financial system's roller-coaster ride over the past seven and a half years. I also gave them a working definition of my chosen profession: "Economics is a highly sophisticated field of thought that is superb at explaining to policymakers precisely why the choices they made in the past were wrong. About the future, not so much.

now his not-so-secret ambition was to be chairman of the Fed after my departure.

of knowing what the job was likely to entail for both her husband and the family.

Greg—whom I had known since graduate school—called and asked if I had any interest in succeeding him.

In terms of job security, I was moving in exactly the wrong direction: from a job with lifetime tenure, to a job as Federal Reserve governor that carried a fourteen-year term,

and I would spend much of my professional career trying to better understand why deep economic depressions occur.

young go into the profession with dread, the old can scarcely wait for retirement, and those of the middle years yearn for sabbaticals.

The people who occupy the professoriate have not had to work a real job – a job with real-world consequences -- in over 30 years.

The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.

I think it's ridiculous that kids have to try to decide at eighteen years old what the hell they want to be.

Not every record needs to be a hit record. It's not meant to do that, and people's careers go through cycles and if you want to be the last man standing, you have to be fierce and tenacious and you just have to stand there and you have to let it do its thing.

It's funny, but when I arrived in California to start college I was much more interested in becoming a surfer and cruise along in life from one beach to the next. I didn't plan out any huge career for myself.

This had to be kept secret, of course, since only Catholic artists were allowed to work inside the Vatican, and especially in the pope's chapel. If it had been discovered that Buonarroti had denied the Church and veered into Valdesian Protestantism, he would not only have lost his career, but also his freedom—and possibly his life.

I first wanted to be a psychiatrist. I decided against that in medical school when I discovered that psychiatrists didn't, in reality, do what they did on TV.

It was not just one career I mourned; as I had never tried any career I mourned them all. Never having put my talents to the test, I imagined they were limitless and cursed them because of it, wishing nature had made me weak and commonplace, and spared me at any rate the remorse that comes from deliberate self-abasement. Any praise or approval of my intelligence or knowledge seemed an unbearable reproach, like hearing admiration for the powerful arms of an athlete chained down in a dungeon.

He that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor,

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

A lawyer starts life giving 500 worth of law for 5 and ends giving 5 worth for 500.

Scholarship, far from leading inexorably to a profession, may in fact preclude it. For it does not permit you to abandon it.

Women in their 40s have gone through quite a few different things, and so the roles are going to reflect that. People say, 'Oh, it's done by 40,' and now everyone knows it's not. I actually feel like the roles are a lot more interesting.

Jamie Foxx. He's been very much a mentor and friend, and we've worked together several times. He's just been such an influence in my career. There's nothing that man can't do, and that's something I would like to reflect in my career.

I am preparing myself to leave football. I have always thought that once you get past 30, it is time to reflect on when you should go, and that is what I have done.

I got some time off from international cricket so I could come back to India and reflect on what was not going right for me.