Quotes About Career

As far as my career goes, I've never really had an opportunity to reflect on what I've done, with taking in the accolades and achievements that I've been able to bring together.

In 1998, Nasdaq started a project called Next Nasdaq - or what Nasdaq was going to become - and they decided to handpick some of the up-and-comers. I was chosen as one of the people. It was a great opportunity for me and, I guess, a reflection of the fact that I was seen as someone who was developing her career pretty well.

I titled the album Reflections because I am reflecting on my music career.

I think I had a kind of pause for insight in my 20s when I wasn't in a relationship and my career wasn't going the way I wanted it to go. I had time for reflection then.

The transitional period is tough. You can find yourself too old to play high school roles but too young to play the leading man. You have to be quite smart about how you present yourself. Your public image reflects your range.

More than anything, I'm an American kid, and my music reflects that more so than being an Asian-American. I think it's important but also something that can detrimental to your career if celebrated too much.

My own career reflects a strange dichotomy between the world we've long known and the world that will become.

The idea was never for me to be a career bureaucrat or career technocrat; it was more about where I could implement ideas and reform programs.

I started my career with 'Refugee' in Bhuj. Now, it has become a full-fledged city.

My father insisted that each of us have a career. His family were refugees and he understood the vicissitudes of fortune.

Out of college, I had two job offers. One was to be a canoe instructor for Outward Bound. And frankly, that would have paid better than the job I took, working on a policy commission in Washington that focused on immigration policy and refugees. But that decision made all the difference.

I would never refuse a film or do a film for a certain amount of money.

I've personally never wanted to be 'the babe', and refuse to let vanity get in the way of my acting because I don't see my job as being a beautiful person.

I still refuse films offered to me at phenomenal prices and am doing some for peanuts.

I will only take up acting if the offer is too good to refuse.

I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.

There are times in my career where I can see it would be helped by having a bit more of a profile, but it's not like I refuse to do interviews, no, not at all.

I get many scripts and films, but I refuse most of them because I have done such roles before.

When I knew I had the chance to play for Liverpool I couldn't refuse it.

Post 'Geet,' I thought I would not work for at least six months, but when 'Punar Vivaah' came to me, I couldn't refuse.

When the opportunity arose for me to join an organization like the Celtics, I could not refuse.

I have direction, but I was very particular about the things that I wanted to do, and I refused to get just like, a regular job.

Barbra Streisand developed overwhelming performance anxiety at the height of her career; for 27 years she refused to perform for the general public, appearing live only in private clubs and at charity events, where she presumably believed the pressure on her was less intense.

That's one reason I retired as a sergeant and not at a higher rank... I refused to 'play the game' the way the bosses wanted the game played. It is a decision that has cost me money in retirement pay but one that I have never regretted.