Quotes About Career

I didn't want to be the rebel who was bottom of the class, so I worked hard. They wanted me to stay on for A-Levels, but football came calling - that was my real love.

If you are not doing what you love, then start doing it, even if it is only part-time.

I could have gone on to be an engineer full time, except that there was more demand for my playing. But the love of working the board never leaves you.

I still have agents in France, Los Angeles and Amsterdam who call and suggest parts. I'd love to keep on doing both painting and acting until the end of my days.

I love acting so much that I have to have that as much as I have to have my time with my kid.

Whatever career you're in, assume it's going to be a massive failure. That way, you're not making decisions based on success, money and career. You're only making it based on doing what you love.

I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world. I love what I do.

I am privileged to do a job I love to do. I would never change any moment from my life.

I never saw myself as being ambitious, I saw myself as being in love with the profession. I'm a people person. I love to get to know different kinds of people.

You need to consider the future and think, "What might my life look like if I were caring for myself properly? What career would challenge me and render me productive and helpful, so that I could shoulder my share of the load, and enjoy the consequences? What should I be doing, when I have some freedom, to improve my health, expand my knowledge, and strengthen my body?

and the answer to why they're mad about the shoes is because they should change jobs

people are generally very loath to talk publicly—it is a common fear, often severe enough to interfere with career progression4

Perhaps you should also be positioning yourself for a lateral move—into another job, for example, noting as you may, "This occupation is deadening my soul, and that is truly not for me.

I don't think you're cut out for this job. You look like a kid, and Wall Street's no place for kids. It's a place for killers. A place for mercenaries. So in that sense you're lucky I'm not the one who does the hiring around here.

I think we need more math majors who don't become mathematicians. More math major doctors, more math major high school teachers, more math major CEOs, more math major senators. But we won't get there unless we dump the stereotype that math is only worthwhile for kid geniuses.

I think the best place to work in football is England.

It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.

Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

The career stuff is for business people.

most professionals progress until they reach an "acceptable" level, and then they plateau. Software engineers, for instance, usually stop progressing somewhere around five years after entering the workforce. Beyond this level of mediocrity, further improvements are not correlated to years of work in the field.

Over the years, I have seen too many politicians ruin their careers because they could not accept defeat graciously.

I realized that I loved using computers to create something, but being an architect just wasn't going to keep me interested. The idea of a life spent obsessing over bathroom details for an Upper East Side penthouse was pretty depressing.

A better man might have handled the situation with more grace than I did. A better man would have been able to separate his personal life from his career.